#selfishness — Public Fediverse posts
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Was reading a book and stumbled upon this quote, decided to add my insight.
#usenickunleashed #selflessness #selfishness #ego #philosophy #psychology
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Was reading a book and stumbled upon this quote, decided to add my insight.
#usenickunleashed #selflessness #selfishness #ego #philosophy #psychology
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MAKE IT MAKE FUCKING SENSE
I, who know perfectly well I am not capable of caring for children, choose not to have children. "Passing on" my mental illness / disorders (like autism) isn't even a consideration - if I could care for a child, I would care for them, NO MATTER WHAT - but I do not have the stamina or energy or emotional resources or capacity or any other fucking thing in sufficient amounts to raise even the most normal, "easy" child - SO I DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A "BAD" THING.But over here, you have severely mentally ill people AND/OR severely cruel and vicious and dangerous people who have caused SO MUCH HARM to other adults in their lives - never mind children - who are SO FUCKING DESPERATE to pass on their genetic material that they are undergoing FERTILITY TREATMENTS. And successfully getting pregnant.
And THAT is somehow a "good thing."I could just vomit fire.
#reproduction #spawn #pregnancy #fertility #fertility-treatments #childree #childree-on-purpose #mommy-brain #mommy-cult #reproductive-rights #priorities #selfishness #perpetuating-harm #misogyny #babies-babies-babies #baby-brain #baby-crazy #I'm-more-than-a-uterus #genetics #love-it-when-the-evil-people-reproduce #great-another-generation-of-cunts #because-it's-NOT-genetics #it's-terrible-people-raising-children-according-to-their-terrible-values #raise-up-a-child-in-the-way-of-hatred-they-should-go #outbreed-the-sane-people #that's-their-motivation #selfish-bastards -
MAKE IT MAKE FUCKING SENSE
I, who know perfectly well I am not capable of caring for children, choose not to have children. "Passing on" my mental illness / disorders (like autism) isn't even a consideration - if I could care for a child, I would care for them, NO MATTER WHAT - but I do not have the stamina or energy or emotional resources or capacity or any other fucking thing in sufficient amounts to raise even the most normal, "easy" child - SO I DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A "BAD" THING.But over here, you have severely mentally ill people AND/OR severely cruel and vicious and dangerous people who have caused SO MUCH HARM to other adults in their lives - never mind children - who are SO FUCKING DESPERATE to pass on their genetic material that they are undergoing FERTILITY TREATMENTS. And successfully getting pregnant.
And THAT is somehow a "good thing."I could just vomit fire.
#reproduction #spawn #pregnancy #fertility #fertility-treatments #childree #childree-on-purpose #mommy-brain #mommy-cult #reproductive-rights #priorities #selfishness #perpetuating-harm #misogyny #babies-babies-babies #baby-brain #baby-crazy #I'm-more-than-a-uterus #genetics #love-it-when-the-evil-people-reproduce #great-another-generation-of-cunts #because-it's-NOT-genetics #it's-terrible-people-raising-children-according-to-their-terrible-values #raise-up-a-child-in-the-way-of-hatred-they-should-go #outbreed-the-sane-people #that's-their-motivation #selfish-bastards -
MAKE IT MAKE FUCKING SENSE
I, who know perfectly well I am not capable of caring for children, choose not to have children. "Passing on" my mental illness / disorders (like autism) isn't even a consideration - if I could care for a child, I would care for them, NO MATTER WHAT - but I do not have the stamina or energy or emotional resources or capacity or any other fucking thing in sufficient amounts to raise even the most normal, "easy" child - SO I DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A "BAD" THING.But over here, you have severely mentally ill people AND/OR severely cruel and vicious and dangerous people who have caused SO MUCH HARM to other adults in their lives - never mind children - who are SO FUCKING DESPERATE to pass on their genetic material that they are undergoing FERTILITY TREATMENTS. And successfully getting pregnant.
And THAT is somehow a "good thing."I could just vomit fire.
#reproduction #spawn #pregnancy #fertility #fertility-treatments #childree #childree-on-purpose #mommy-brain #mommy-cult #reproductive-rights #priorities #selfishness #perpetuating-harm #misogyny #babies-babies-babies #baby-brain #baby-crazy #I'm-more-than-a-uterus #genetics #love-it-when-the-evil-people-reproduce #great-another-generation-of-cunts #because-it's-NOT-genetics #it's-terrible-people-raising-children-according-to-their-terrible-values #raise-up-a-child-in-the-way-of-hatred-they-should-go #outbreed-the-sane-people #that's-their-motivation #selfish-bastards -
MAKE IT MAKE FUCKING SENSE
I, who know perfectly well I am not capable of caring for children, choose not to have children. "Passing on" my mental illness / disorders (like autism) isn't even a consideration - if I could care for a child, I would care for them, NO MATTER WHAT - but I do not have the stamina or energy or emotional resources or capacity or any other fucking thing in sufficient amounts to raise even the most normal, "easy" child - SO I DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A "BAD" THING.But over here, you have severely mentally ill people AND/OR severely cruel and vicious and dangerous people who have caused SO MUCH HARM to other adults in their lives - never mind children - who are SO FUCKING DESPERATE to pass on their genetic material that they are undergoing FERTILITY TREATMENTS. And successfully getting pregnant.
And THAT is somehow a "good thing."I could just vomit fire.
#reproduction #spawn #pregnancy #fertility #fertility-treatments #childree #childree-on-purpose #mommy-brain #mommy-cult #reproductive-rights #priorities #selfishness #perpetuating-harm #misogyny #babies-babies-babies #baby-brain #baby-crazy #I'm-more-than-a-uterus #genetics #love-it-when-the-evil-people-reproduce #great-another-generation-of-cunts #because-it's-NOT-genetics #it's-terrible-people-raising-children-according-to-their-terrible-values #raise-up-a-child-in-the-way-of-hatred-they-should-go #outbreed-the-sane-people #that's-their-motivation #selfish-bastards -
MAKE IT MAKE FUCKING SENSE
I, who know perfectly well I am not capable of caring for children, choose not to have children. "Passing on" my mental illness / disorders (like autism) isn't even a consideration - if I could care for a child, I would care for them, NO MATTER WHAT - but I do not have the stamina or energy or emotional resources or capacity or any other fucking thing in sufficient amounts to raise even the most normal, "easy" child - SO I DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A "BAD" THING.But over here, you have severely mentally ill people AND/OR severely cruel and vicious and dangerous people who have caused SO MUCH HARM to other adults in their lives - never mind children - who are SO FUCKING DESPERATE to pass on their genetic material that they are undergoing FERTILITY TREATMENTS. And successfully getting pregnant.
And THAT is somehow a "good thing."I could just vomit fire.
#reproduction #spawn #pregnancy #fertility #fertility-treatments #childree #childree-on-purpose #mommy-brain #mommy-cult #reproductive-rights #priorities #selfishness #perpetuating-harm #misogyny #babies-babies-babies #baby-brain #baby-crazy #I'm-more-than-a-uterus #genetics #love-it-when-the-evil-people-reproduce #great-another-generation-of-cunts #because-it's-NOT-genetics #it's-terrible-people-raising-children-according-to-their-terrible-values #raise-up-a-child-in-the-way-of-hatred-they-should-go #outbreed-the-sane-people #that's-their-motivation #selfish-bastards -
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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🧐The myriad problems discussed herein wrt #Singapore folks managing their #private #properties cld be boiled down to 1 underlying cause, if one cld be brutally honest, & tt's #selfishness driven by a lack of social cohesion (or worse, #social #responsibility). Why? It needs more attention fr sociologists.👇
Managing million-dollar sinking funds, costly repairs: Do #condo councils need mandatory training?🤔
"residents may join councils bec they've a personal agenda, an ego"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/condo-councils-sinking-funds-training-members-bca-6025621 -
They say to me: Eat and drink! Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink if
I snatch what I eat from the starving, and
My glass of water belongs to one dying of thirst?
And yet I eat and drink.
[Man sagt mir: Iß und trink du! Sei froh, daß du hast!
Aber wie kann ich essen und trinken, wenn
Ich dem Hungernden entreiße, was ich esse, und
Mein Glas Wasser einem Verdursteten fehlt?
Und doch esse und trinke ich.]Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
Poem (1938 ca.), “To Those Born Later [A die Nachgeborenen],” sec. 1, Svendborger Gedichte (1939) [tr. Willet / Manheim / Fried]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/brecht-berthold/8320…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brecht #bertholtbrecht #compassion #control #drink #food #hunger #poverty #selfishness #starvation #thirst #water
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They say to me: Eat and drink! Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink if
I snatch what I eat from the starving, and
My glass of water belongs to one dying of thirst?
And yet I eat and drink.
[Man sagt mir: Iß und trink du! Sei froh, daß du hast!
Aber wie kann ich essen und trinken, wenn
Ich dem Hungernden entreiße, was ich esse, und
Mein Glas Wasser einem Verdursteten fehlt?
Und doch esse und trinke ich.]Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
Poem (1938 ca.), “To Those Born Later [A die Nachgeborenen],” sec. 1, Svendborger Gedichte (1939) [tr. Willet / Manheim / Fried]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/brecht-berthold/8320…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brecht #bertholtbrecht #compassion #control #drink #food #hunger #poverty #selfishness #starvation #thirst #water
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They say to me: Eat and drink! Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink if
I snatch what I eat from the starving, and
My glass of water belongs to one dying of thirst?
And yet I eat and drink.
[Man sagt mir: Iß und trink du! Sei froh, daß du hast!
Aber wie kann ich essen und trinken, wenn
Ich dem Hungernden entreiße, was ich esse, und
Mein Glas Wasser einem Verdursteten fehlt?
Und doch esse und trinke ich.]Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
Poem (1938 ca.), “To Those Born Later [A die Nachgeborenen],” sec. 1, Svendborger Gedichte (1939) [tr. Willet / Manheim / Fried]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/brecht-berthold/8320…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brecht #bertholtbrecht #compassion #control #drink #food #hunger #poverty #selfishness #starvation #thirst #water
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They say to me: Eat and drink! Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink if
I snatch what I eat from the starving, and
My glass of water belongs to one dying of thirst?
And yet I eat and drink.
[Man sagt mir: Iß und trink du! Sei froh, daß du hast!
Aber wie kann ich essen und trinken, wenn
Ich dem Hungernden entreiße, was ich esse, und
Mein Glas Wasser einem Verdursteten fehlt?
Und doch esse und trinke ich.]Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
Poem (1938 ca.), “To Those Born Later [A die Nachgeborenen],” sec. 1, Svendborger Gedichte (1939) [tr. Willet / Manheim / Fried]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/brecht-berthold/8320…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brecht #bertholtbrecht #compassion #control #drink #food #hunger #poverty #selfishness #starvation #thirst #water
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #ambition #avarice #civicvirtue #community #democracy #equality #greed #nation #patriotism #politicalvirtue #republic #selfcenteredness #selfishness #virtue
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #ambition #avarice #civicvirtue #community #democracy #equality #greed #nation #patriotism #politicalvirtue #republic #selfcenteredness #selfishness #virtue
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #ambition #avarice #civicvirtue #community #democracy #equality #greed #nation #patriotism #politicalvirtue #republic #selfcenteredness #selfishness #virtue
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #ambition #avarice #civicvirtue #community #democracy #equality #greed #nation #patriotism #politicalvirtue #republic #selfcenteredness #selfishness #virtue
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #ambition #avarice #civicvirtue #community #democracy #equality #greed #nation #patriotism #politicalvirtue #republic #selfcenteredness #selfishness #virtue
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Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
#yle #radio #sariValto #itsekkyys #selfishness #etiikka #hyveet #virtues #arvot #values #lapset #childhood #adHominem #reasoning #kulttuuri #culture #filosofia #psykologia #sosiaaliPsykologia #sosiologia
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Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
#yle #radio #sariValto #itsekkyys #selfishness #etiikka #hyveet #virtues #arvot #values #lapset #childhood #adHominem #reasoning #kulttuuri #culture #filosofia #psykologia #sosiaaliPsykologia #sosiologia
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Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
#yle #radio #sariValto #itsekkyys #selfishness #etiikka #hyveet #virtues #arvot #values #lapset #childhood #adHominem #reasoning #kulttuuri #culture #filosofia #psykologia #sosiaaliPsykologia #sosiologia
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Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
#yle #radio #sariValto #itsekkyys #selfishness #etiikka #hyveet #virtues #arvot #values #lapset #childhood #adHominem #reasoning #kulttuuri #culture #filosofia #psykologia #sosiaaliPsykologia #sosiologia
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Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
#yle #radio #sariValto #itsekkyys #selfishness #etiikka #hyveet #virtues #arvot #values #lapset #childhood #adHominem #reasoning #kulttuuri #culture #filosofia #psykologia #sosiaaliPsykologia #sosiologia
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion.
[L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #enlightenedselfinterest #interest #motivation #selfinterest #selfserving #selfishness #vice #virtue
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#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
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Virtue and Simplicity of Manners, are indispensably necessary in a Republic, among all orders and Degrees of Men. But there is So much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to support a Republic.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-01-08) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/12527/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #ambition #America #avarice #class #corruption #democracy #dishonesty #greed #humancondition #humannature #manners #profit #publicgood #publicvirtue #rank #republic #selfishness #virtue
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Virtue and Simplicity of Manners, are indispensably necessary in a Republic, among all orders and Degrees of Men. But there is So much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to support a Republic.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-01-08) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/12527/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #ambition #America #avarice #class #corruption #democracy #dishonesty #greed #humancondition #humannature #manners #profit #publicgood #publicvirtue #rank #republic #selfishness #virtue
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Virtue and Simplicity of Manners, are indispensably necessary in a Republic, among all orders and Degrees of Men. But there is So much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to support a Republic.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-01-08) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/12527/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #ambition #America #avarice #class #corruption #democracy #dishonesty #greed #humancondition #humannature #manners #profit #publicgood #publicvirtue #rank #republic #selfishness #virtue
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Virtue and Simplicity of Manners, are indispensably necessary in a Republic, among all orders and Degrees of Men. But there is So much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to support a Republic.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-01-08) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/12527/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #ambition #America #avarice #class #corruption #democracy #dishonesty #greed #humancondition #humannature #manners #profit #publicgood #publicvirtue #rank #republic #selfishness #virtue
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Virtue and Simplicity of Manners, are indispensably necessary in a Republic, among all orders and Degrees of Men. But there is So much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to support a Republic.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-01-08) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/12527/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #ambition #America #avarice #class #corruption #democracy #dishonesty #greed #humancondition #humannature #manners #profit #publicgood #publicvirtue #rank #republic #selfishness #virtue
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How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up
Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?
In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.
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How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up
Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?
In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.
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How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up
Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?
In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.
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How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up
Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?
In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.
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How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up
Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?
In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
[Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfsatisfaction #selfishness #virtue
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
[Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfsatisfaction #selfishness #virtue
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
[Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfsatisfaction #selfishness #virtue
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
[Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfsatisfaction #selfishness #virtue
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
[Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶171 (1665-1678) [tr. Whichello (2016)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfsatisfaction #selfishness #virtue
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A quotation from Judith Martin
Contrary to rumor, bridesmaids are not obliged to entertain in honor of the bride, nor to wear clothes that they cannot afford and that make them look stupid.
And no, the bride does not have a “right” to demand either one because it is “her day.” Any sensible person who hears someone speaking in an imperious tone of “her day” would be wise to consider that it therefore isn’t going to be anyone else’s day, and to leave her to enjoy it alone.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1993-03-07)More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/80439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #bride #demands #etiquette #selfcenteredness #selfishness #wedding
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A quotation from Judith Martin
Contrary to rumor, bridesmaids are not obliged to entertain in honor of the bride, nor to wear clothes that they cannot afford and that make them look stupid.
And no, the bride does not have a “right” to demand either one because it is “her day.” Any sensible person who hears someone speaking in an imperious tone of “her day” would be wise to consider that it therefore isn’t going to be anyone else’s day, and to leave her to enjoy it alone.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1993-03-07)More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/80439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #bride #demands #etiquette #selfcenteredness #selfishness #wedding
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A quotation from Judith Martin
Contrary to rumor, bridesmaids are not obliged to entertain in honor of the bride, nor to wear clothes that they cannot afford and that make them look stupid.
And no, the bride does not have a “right” to demand either one because it is “her day.” Any sensible person who hears someone speaking in an imperious tone of “her day” would be wise to consider that it therefore isn’t going to be anyone else’s day, and to leave her to enjoy it alone.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1993-03-07)More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/80439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #bride #demands #etiquette #selfcenteredness #selfishness #wedding
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A quotation from Judith Martin
Contrary to rumor, bridesmaids are not obliged to entertain in honor of the bride, nor to wear clothes that they cannot afford and that make them look stupid.
And no, the bride does not have a “right” to demand either one because it is “her day.” Any sensible person who hears someone speaking in an imperious tone of “her day” would be wise to consider that it therefore isn’t going to be anyone else’s day, and to leave her to enjoy it alone.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1993-03-07)More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/80439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #bride #demands #etiquette #selfcenteredness #selfishness #wedding
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness