Saturday April 11, 2015

The defining characteristic of “criminal” is necessity. We are more likely to jail a poor man whose tangible theft was something closer to rational behavior due to necessity than a rich man whose mass theft can only be proven through statistical analysis and who lacked any other motive than to coin his ego for all to see. 
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Outspending the other side of the table settles so many legal disputes that one only needs an attorney if one cannot afford one.

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If the arbitrary bending of our values is immoral, then nothing is more wicked than the path to self-esteem.  It is a house of mirrors.  Social perception does not push our self-esteem so much as perceived social perception pulls it. We bend the already bent as we take it in and leave ourselves with more or less than we deserve.

 
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He is never trespassed by the inevitable who quickly assumes the role of a host.
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The charge against “expediency” can itself be a charge against a morality which has drifted away from human application. Where morality is helpful, “expediency” finds no place in our vocabulary.
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Meaning is a guest, and silence, its host. We welcome it in … or, it takes us where it will, but we cannot impose goals upon it.
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Sincerity is a useful excuse, but never a virtue. As a goal for a thinker, it is in fact regressive, since we seek to define how our cognitive anatomy navigates the mess of incentives, impulses, and necessities, not to mention the compounded interactions of such as person relates to person.  Thought requires distinctions … conflicts; we cannot see pre-existing harmonies at all.  Most people are just too stupid to be insincere.

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