No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.