Most people are used to juggling two discordant views of themselves and their fellow humans, one statistical, according to which what's normal is what most people do most of the time, and one rooted in what you could call the moral imagination: a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God capacity to put themselves into other people's moccasins, however horrible or untypical the circumstances.

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