2/ > Simone Weil, the great French mystic who fasted to death in solidarity with frontline soldiers, said that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”. Dude could have packed up a basket full of sandwiches, traveled to the front, and passed them out.
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3/ Troops would have appreciated that. Instead...he starved himself to death "in solidarity". That right there delegitimizes every opinion and quote the idiot ever had in his life, IMO.
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4/ > Weil was part of a particular lineage of ethical psychology that conceptualized the ethical agent as a witness; primary responsibility is not to change the world but to understand Philosophy, psychology, and ethicism are all 100% fake. Just wordcels playing stupid games.
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“Sometimes[…] I get angry that dogs are looking at me…” Wait, what?
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My Border Terrier (rescue) is intensely affectionate, frequently begging politely for attention to point of being irritating. Walks up 37 times a day, stares radiating “please love me.” Closed doors make it worse. “Not now, I have software defects to fix … d@mmit [skritches].”
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Are the dogs confused by this?
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This article strikes me as word salad, save for a vague impression that the author likes attention a lot.
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Three paragraphs praising economy of words. I tapped out after that unintentional irony.
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