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Global warming would “put strictures on the economic growth that has been the great social salve that has kept some groups, in some measure, from each other’s throats,” he told his close friend Otis Graham, the University of California, Santa Barbara, historian.

But his parents’ armor is biblical faith, especially in the power of forgiveness, which to their son is no cure-all but rather a hypocritical salve that ignores the root of the sin and the damage it has caused.

"It has been a salve to our broken hearts," she said.

The bro-y media-makers, the Republican Party, and the church all have different ways of promising young men clarity, meaning, and respect, and all seek to be the salve to these men’s sense of displacement and aggrievement.

But the idea has spread to first-trimester losses, and not solely as a salve for a grieving person; it’s also used to further conservative arguments against abortion.