It's hard to know what ignorance is these days,... Kierkegaard said repetition was impossible, and that this meant we are incapable of imitating Christ. . — Gary M Washburn
So what? Man lives to please one's ego. One could be dying in the gutter and still feel satisfied with oneself, blissing out in righteous indignation.Point here. I think you're exactly right. But against that I appeal to longer term interests. That is, they may be tactical, but lack strategic understanding. For humanity writ large, that may be fatal and soon. — tim wood
:smirk:"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert — Tom Storm
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ~Hanlon's RazorYou can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve. — Al Swearengen
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/475510 :victory: :mask:Stupidity, n. A congenital species defect – the incorrigible misuse / abuse of intelligence, knowledge and/or judgment that inadvertently does harm to others and/or oneself (i.e. maladaptive conduct) – against which a cultivated intellect strives.
Against stupidity, philosophers (i.e. sisyphusian 'meta-cognitive hygienists' and/or 'dialectical rodeo-clowns') struggle in vain.What is your aim in philosophy? – To show the fly the way out of the fly bottle. — Witty, PI §309
Then it's time to realize that one wasn't practicing generosity to begin with, but something else.Thought experiment: when on the basis of simple and plain evidence generosity is exhausted or even inappropriate, what then? — tim wood
So what? Man lives to please one's ego. One could be dying in the gutter and still feel satisfied with oneself, blissing out in righteous indignation.
— baker
[Brother Wood replies with yet another derogatory remark intent on deflecting attention from the matter at hand.] — tim wood
Nonsense. People are generally driven to please their egos, above everything else. — baker
But stupidity comes at a price. And perhaps starting with the invention of the Gatling gun, the price often has been too high. — tim wood
an affliction of all at one time or another, for most to a lesser degree, but for some a career. Characterized by insistence on ignorance against reason, sense, evidence, experience, and all entreaties, appeals, and proofs. — tim wood
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Robert J. Hanlon
When a wise man hears of the Tao,
he immediately begins to live it.
When an average man hears of the Tao,
he believes some of it and doubts the rest.
When a foolish man hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud at the very idea.
If it were not for that laugh,
it would not be the Tao. — Lao Tzu
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