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We tend to think that people's true nature comes out at decisive moments, when the going gets tough, when they're pushed to the limit. The moment for heroes and saints. And yet, strange though it may seem, at such moments, human behavior is usually neither exemplary nor encouraging. The group who elbow their way to the head of the line where the concert tickets are being handed out; the spectators who flee the burning theater, trampling over the weaker members of the audience . . .
In day-to-day living, you're constrained by your kids, by your wife; if it wasn't for them, you'd do all kinds of crazy things, but when you're in really deep trouble, when you reach that final tipping point, the very opposite happens: it is precisely your wife and kids who make you do the crazy thing that, before, they seemed to be stopping you from doing.
Do you see how commercial obligations bind people more closely than love?
As the poet says: We sing what we have lost. She's
panchitos, blacks,
