she just referred to the entire Behaviorist philosophy as reductio ad absurdum
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"More than the churches which honor material life with the forms of beauty, psychologists send us back begging and desperate in search of a spiritual universe."
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"We have no right to quarrel with the modern writer because his conclusions are different from those of earlier moralists...But we have every right to quarrel if we suspect him of drawing conclusions in memory of a semester of psychology."
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okay okay I think I finally get what she was doing for 50 pages of talk on science, religion, realism and romance might be too high to summarize
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no wait I got it I think she is arguing that romance incentivizes you to git gud
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at last we come to the chapter "are prostitutes people?" hoo boy
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ok apparently 1. prostitution is a sin 2. but amateur promiscuity is worse because it is a sin engaged in between friends aaaaand
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"perversion may be classified as an even graver error on the grounds that nowadays it seems to flourish among so-called intellectuals, whose sin is greater than the sins of the less fortunate because of their opportunity to do and know better" holy shit
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oh dear apparently it's time for some homophobia? unclear
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