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You can be proud of your achievements without being smug. Also, hubris being a virtue is crap. It may be decent for your self esteem but it makes you miserable
by duaneb 12y ago
You can be proud of your achievements without being smug.
Also, hubris being a virtue is crap. It may be decent for your self esteem but it makes you miserable to be around. Case in point: Larry Wall.
- bigtunacan 12y agoAgreed, hubris is not a virtue. Merriam-Webster - hubris - "a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence" It's just a synonym used for arrogance and smugness. Humbleness is a virtue.
- wutbrodo 12y agoFrom the way you phrased this, I think You may have missed the context link a couple comments above. Everyone is aware of what hubris means and that it's not a virtue per se. The point of the linked page is that it's (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) taking three vices and positioning them as virtues in a narrow context. It's just semantics; the saying could easily have used synonyms that have positive connotations, but using negative words instead is part of the joke.
- bigtunacan 12y agoYes; apparently I had. Thanks.