What does this passage say you should defend with your life, and which of your daily acts contradicts that defence?

Theme: core_values · card 4/4 · 2026-05-15

On being asked why he permitted the animal thus to dirty his clothes, Towianski replied: ‘This dog, whom I am now meeting for the first time, has shown a great fellow‐ feeling for me, and a great joy in my recognition and acceptance of his greetings. Were I to drive him off, I should wound his feelings and do him a moral injury.

— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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