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CRIME AND KARMA
meals a day, a dry place to sleep, blankets in the cold season-these are preferable to "freedom" to starve, for a change. And, fortunately, for those who need it so badly the change is not left to the chance. The police are there to look after it that they get it regularly. The life of these boys being co very well determined by the very nature of their existence as the ugly symptom of a rotten social system, they know neither God, nor karma, nor even fate. More correctly, fate is such a stark reality for them, that they have no occasion to speculate about it.
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