Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil nihilism as a working method and a game and the two cops as order and good will personified.

NEWYORKER: End of Watch

Starbucks would never allow such self-esteem-destroying labeling.

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But in our partisan self-righteousness, we're destroying our foundations of government more effectively than al Qaeda ever could.

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Destroying the other, or feeling destroyed by them, totally swamps desire for self-improvement.

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