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> Perhaps, but if they're unstated, what prevents you revising your principles after the fact, to fit your actions? then you're not a principled person, that's
by PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
> Perhaps, but if they're unstated, what prevents you revising your principles after the fact, to fit your actions?
then you're not a principled person, that's why actions speak louder than words.
- smcin 3y agoBut noone external to the contents of their head can know that. It's unknowable to all the rest of us. (The only thing the rest of us can tell is they might be confused, incoherent, have a weak, inconsistent or just idiosyncratic set of principles, etc.) See the author interview of Robert Greene on "Exploring Human Nature" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tGC401j78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tGC401j78