If we removed resentment, A human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 185

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If we removed resentment from the argument, we could not say, “put yourself in my place,” or “if this had happened to our kind” — since the appeals to fairness hinge upon resentment.  No, if we removed resentment from the argument, the argument itself would be in danger of vanishing.  Nothing would be there ... only debris that we could have sailed on through if we had only kept our heads up.  Instead we laid anchor before the wreckage, involuntarily conferring value upon it ... and with our stopping, new regrets and with them new resentments ... and still more debris floating in from our horizon.







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