i’m going to just start RTing people inveighing against the evils of cynicism without comment because a world with more credulous people is advantageous and if you can be made more credulous by that sort of thing then you deserve to be
there are competing definitions but they’re at least opposed if not precise opposites in the one i subscribe to
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there's a difference between skepticism, demanding evidence for claims, and cynicism, a spiritually corrosive immunity to passion in any endeavor. a substantial difference.
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that isn’t what i mean by cynicism and sounds suspiciously like pessimism. by cynicism i mean distrust of people’s nominal motives.
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