The forces of good and evil are alive in every society. The above-mentioned catastrophic events and extraordinary displays of art and architecture are the same events and arts used by John Farmer Jr. in his piece “The Price We Pay for Our Beliefs.” It recognizes the existence of favorable and unfavorable circumstances in each culture, proceeds to explain why they exist and, more importantly, how to rectify them. As John Farmer Jr. pointed out, regardless of whether a society is Catholic, Jewish, German, or Japanese, dilemmas exist within every society. They exist precisely because citizens indomitablely claim to be Catholic, Jewish, German or Japanese. By building boundaries around one's identity, anything outside those boundaries is believed to be morally and ethically wrong. As John Farmer Jr. says: “We define by excluding. We say who we are... by saying who we are