Are you sure you’re not? Are you certain you couldn’t become him? Don’t be too sure. The sages say, “Don’t trust yourself til the day you die.” Because there’s a Putin in every one of us. How do we ensure that we don’t end up just like Putin, subjecting those closest to us and those far away to unspeakable pain and suffering because we don’t care enough to contemplate the integrity of our decisions or the consequences of our actions?
How, indeed?