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So is it really in the interest of the US to try to "prevent other great powers from rising?"Shouldn't America's leaders be trying to shorten the period that other societies are vulnerable to the evils that made the twentieth century the bloodiest in the history of mankind?

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Voltaire summarized why; he said, "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."

They're actually both proof of how right Voltaire was when he talked about the benefits of work, and the fact that it saves us from not one but three great evils.

["Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."

I'm not suggesting that obesity is benign, but what I am suggesting is it may be the lesser of two metabolic evils.

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