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Around the time when India’s prohibition of sodomy was enacted, John Stuart Mill was writing his celebrated essay On Liberty , in which he put forward the following principle:...the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

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For organizations with a factory worker attitude, this approach will bias towards more heavyweight project management approaches that leave little room for interpretation, on purpose.

It all of a sudden dawned on me, in this project, that the purpose of these rides should actually be to expose the kids to one thing only: love.

We're even doing this on purpose.

And although they vary enormously in scale, maturity and purpose, when we dived into them, we realized that they could actually be organized into three clear systems.

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