But if you just flat-out reject the tragic sense of life completely, you're in denial about something You're running away from truth, you're refusing to confront what is the fundamental basis, the definition, of *having a moral sense at all* to begin with
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But that's not what having principles actually means If you really have principles, you have to prepare that those principles will fail in the material world If you really decide to trust someone, you have decided to allow that person to harm you
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That's the tragic sense of life, that good deeds are punished If you actually want to be sure that people don't come into your house, then you have to lock your door, and put up a fence You don't actually get to have both
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I wouldn't so much say it's a primitive instinct as an unwritten contract with society. And then sometimes it doesn't get fulfilled, which means more people take the lesson of "don't be a sucker" and maybe even break into the house themselves, and then more people do it...
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And sooner or later nobody really believes in it anymore but everyone *wants* to be in a world otherwise
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Heh. My first several months in college, we ALWAYS left our dorm room unlocked. Folks were always in and out of it, hanging out in the living room, etc. Finally we got a bit security-conscious and locked the doors. We were broken into within 24 hours and had lots of stuff stolen
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(The thief was a janitor who had a master key; presumably as long as our door was unlocked he assumed someone was home and never came in -- either that or having the door unlocked meant there were always crowds of other friends in there, so, again, he stayed away)
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