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I respect this view, though my personal experience has been that kindness is one of the easiest virtues to corrupt. I prefer truthfulness.

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I really do tend to think that kindness is the ur-virtue. If you aren't basically kind, I don't want to be around you. Period.

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Incorruptibility is a different virtue altogether. Any practice is potentially corruptible.

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Yeah, I think you need more than one. My interpretation of truth is it's more self-sufficient, but it can't stand alone against everything.

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In practice, truth is so interpenetrated by belief that it can be seemingly impossible to tease the two apart.

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Granted, fair point.