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And how do you manage to identify which ideas shouldn't be part of society? I can't imagine having the level of self assurance necessary to consider myself the

And how do you manage to identify which ideas shouldn't be part of society? I can't imagine having the level of self assurance necessary to consider myself the arbiter of acceptable ideas for all of society, let alone to actually intentionally agitate people over my chosen results. It's fascinating.

mattigames 8y ago
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski
- rosser 8y ago
  That's a re-phrasing of Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
  - mattigames 8y ago
    Sorry, its the first one google shows, I will make sure to quote this one next time, even more for being a tad more offensive.
  - benjohnson 8y ago
    As I understand it - W. B. Yeats beat Bertrand by a few years with "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." I'm sure this lament is as old as time - someone probably has Yeats beat by a few millennia.
    - cbanek 8y ago
      "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (date: controversial, but definitely BC)
eeZah7Ux 8y ago
We all have a moral compass and it's constantly at work. The decision of remaining neutral is a moral choice in itself. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
PavlovsCat 8y ago
> every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity itself, depends on him. Anything less is a shirking of responsibility and is itself a dehumanizing force, for anything less encourages the individual to look upon himself as a mere actor in a drama written by anonymous agents, as less than a whole person, and that is the beginning of passivity and aimlessness. --Joseph Weizenbaum
- mcguire 8y ago
  “act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” Kant

mattigames 8y ago

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski

rosser 8y ago
That's a re-phrasing of Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- mattigames 8y ago
  Sorry, its the first one google shows, I will make sure to quote this one next time, even more for being a tad more offensive.
- benjohnson 8y ago
  As I understand it - W. B. Yeats beat Bertrand by a few years with "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." I'm sure this lament is as old as time - someone probably has Yeats beat by a few millennia.
  - cbanek 8y ago
    "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (date: controversial, but definitely BC)

eeZah7Ux 8y ago

We all have a moral compass and it's constantly at work. The decision of remaining neutral is a moral choice in itself. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

PavlovsCat 8y ago

> every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity itself, depends on him. Anything less is a shirking of responsibility and is itself a dehumanizing force, for anything less encourages the individual to look upon himself as a mere actor in a drama written by anonymous agents, as less than a whole person, and that is the beginning of passivity and aimlessness. --Joseph Weizenbaum

mcguire 8y ago
“act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” Kant