can people be good or evil. or only actions
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ok can animals be evil. or do evil things. or good things. like a dolphin saving a floundering swimmer or a cat torturing a mouse just because
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why arent you spending all of your time trying to be Good
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just thinking about this a bit after earlier saint discourse with
@chaosprime and@danlistensto https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1417534708716498945?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/Wd99fCzP47
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saints are interesting in that they comprise a class of people whom everyone praises but very few emulate further, this is not because of an obvious _inability_ to emulate them in the usual sense of ability just conduct yourself in an immaculate manner. lol
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so the question of "why don't you just be a saint" is not one that most people can really be comfortable answering
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even better if you could choose would you want your child to be a saint?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don't think what Francis of Assisi did was good.
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Or, rather, he was acting good in that he was fully following the letter of his society as to what was good, but I don't think the society's views on good were actually Good. Lots of people who become hardcore jihadists are engineers and other more literalist professions.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot
Of course I wouldn't want my child to act in a way that would get them sainted, I don't think that's Good.
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this reads very Hitchonsesque to me
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I would want my child to be Saintly if I get to define what is Saintly.
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