The thing I like least about my own species is its capacity for cruelty, physically & verbally. But we are capable of great kindness too.
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Honesty is more important. Still undecided about humans...
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I don't think so. It is very important. Also rationality. But kindness is most important. We only matter to each other.
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Genuine kindness yes, fake kindness can also be used as a weapon to get want you want from others...
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Yeah, but how can we *make* people be kind?

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Less tea, more coffee.
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Ooooh, now you're looking for trouble. Hard.

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Always.

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Nope, you're a lost cause. I can't even get upset abt it any more. But your name is in my book for when I rule the world.
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Don't make me
#AmplifyHelen
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Even your kindness is grounded in a powerful idea. A rose picked
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Lovely sentiment-but we didn't get to 7.5b ppl & dominate globe by being altruistic. Can't deny the cruel super-predator part of our natures
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Hume was right abt limits 2 reason. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger'
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Great quote, but Kant would disagree, since he saw morality as grounded in reason.
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Kant overplayed the rationality card. I'm w Hume on that one: reason plays a supplementary role i.e. 'Reason is...the slave of the passions'
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Maybe. And of course it's the slave - he was trying to emancipate it. >
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"How is morality not based on reason something other than personal preference?" I don't have an answer to that.
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It's not, really. Kant was always looking for absolutes - but when it comes to human actions, there are none.
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In that case, "Why sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons." -- Hume.

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It's the essence of a civil society that truly seeks advancement
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