within the throes of a passionate suffering, The Mechanics of Virtue by Matt Berry, aphorism 18

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It is possible within the throes of a passionate suffering not only to find alleviation in the realization that it inspires others but to actually leap to other side and enjoy the promotion of one’s status.  If one is talented enough, the drama fools even oneself, serving society well as an inspiration for others in their suffering. 

We cannot pity others too much, for then we are either the accomplices in their self-deceit or the dupes of our own.  Nor can we seek to expose or debunk the object of pity, for then society will lose yet another moral agent and set a cynic between itself and its realization.




A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



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