lo_zamoyski

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1801.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
"[A] good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.” ― Augustine, "City of God" “The first two facts which
1802.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
I, too, suspect changing culture is an important factor. Culture influences aims, habits, attitudes, and dispositions, and these, in turn, can mobilize biological processes, like testosterone production, to adapt the body to the needs that
1803.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
“They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.” ― T.S. Eliot, The Rock
1804.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
The first mistake is to exclude the brain from the body. The brain is just another part of the body. It doesn’t live in a universe of its own hermetically sealed off from the body. It is the body! Every region of you is you. Certainly, some
1805.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Billions of people have lived before us, long traditions predate us. The chances that you've had a single original thought in your life is virtually nil (philosophy is a great example where a failure to learn what's old usually re
1806.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
That's a good point. I've seen this myself during a layoff. The more senior staff (who, presumably, were earning more) were the first to go, save for a couple who were kept so that all the senior knowledge of the system wasn'
1807.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
1. It is good to have children per se. 2. Demographic decline per se is not in the interest of the state or society. 3. It is in the interest of the state to create incentives for marrying and having children and to support or defend a cult
1808.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
"That iconic beauty and excellence was the province of rich white dudes—and can only be expanded by lowering our standards." That's egalitarianism for you.
1809.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
> Ok, I buy this, however, what is this "purpose/ meaning/ calling/ value" thing? What does it mean, really? How do I find mine? Human purpose is ultimately rooted in human nature and its ends. We often seem to t
1810.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
You don't need to be an ascetic. You just need not identify with or get attached to your money as if it were an end in itself or some talisman. Recall the biblical verses about it being easier for a camel to go through the eye of a nee
1811.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
That's a fair point (artifact vs. living thing, a distinction misunderstood by mechanism especially where teleology is concerned). However, artificial does not mean arbitrary. What is artificial follows from human ends, and human ends
1812.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
> I am bit worried about Poland’s push to restrict media. That misrepresents the issue, though it was reported that way abroad. A couple points… The law in question restricts how much foreign investment and ownership there can be in any
1813.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Putting the OP's comment aside, what is this abstract "equality"? We seem to be quite confident in announcing this proposition and affirming it in the public square, but how many people can actually tell you what this equalit
1814.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Indeed, that was a strange diatribe that seems to go way beyond the content of the article (which does flirt with some neurobabble and dubious philosophy here and there, I opine, but I see nothing that would merit the terror-laden response
1815.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
I find it interesting how the domain of things people think they're entitled to is constantly expanding. As usual, at someone else's expense and backed by all sorts of rationalization.
1816.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Indeed, this is often how you distinguish between a mere camera trivia nerd (or camera salesman) from someone with an eye for composition, color, and proportion.
1817.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
These sorts of quotas generally do nothing but paper over the fundamental problems and truths that affect various groups. It's a way of concealing failures of education and culture. By making admissions blind to anything but merit (we
1818.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
> I see it as a way of getting paid for the development of services. The obvious reason is that a company has an incentive to make it easy to onboard and no incentive to help you migrate off or even an incentive to make it difficult or c
1819.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
You seem to be describing a misuse of alcohol, if anything. It's not the case that you either drink excessively or abstain completely. Enjoying a drink, even to relax, is not principally a way of coping with mental illness. It is enjoy
1820.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
I think you're missing the essential point (charitably read). The point is that the rich don't flaunt their wealth. They're not ostentatious. That's what people who aren't rich, or the nouveau riche, do. They'r
1821.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
It is indeed a bit dull and bland. It's on the cusp of being hazy (where looking at your editor feels like you're trying to read something through a haze). And if the whole blue light thing is true, I would expect this to produce
1822.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
They should add themselves to the catalogue.
1823.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
Indeed. An entertaining idea in the abstract, perhaps, but this is just weak sensationalism and poor execution. I don't see anything substantive that explains how something failed. Instead of taking the right attitude of discovering wh
1824.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
I think the via media is that you should avoid pompous, inflated, vacuous, officious language that obscures more than it reveals[0] (psychiatry speaks of "stilted speech" as a marker of disorder; I would add that it could be a mar
1825.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
> Could anything evil happen as a result of embracing this outlook? Yes. If we demote the value of human beings to meet the value of other species, we open the door to the legitimacy of killing human beings. If we promote the value of ot
1826.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
What a strange way to judge the value of a human life.
1827.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
"Raising awareness" feels good to lazy people and doesn't require any real commitment or systematic effort. It's more "glamorous" than painstaking work in the paltry manner of a sassy tweet. Maybe next time, th
1828.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
I would clarify that in order to escape the charge of relativism and utilitarianism. There is no "today ethics" or "yesterday ethics" or "particular ethics". There is merely the objective good, the objective pr
1829.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
People have trouble with moderation because moderation requires the skillful exercise of prudential judgement, and since prudence is a virtue, it means that it is something learned and acquired. That we can't verify everything personal
1830.
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
A good number of classical and medieval philosophers touch on this subject either explicitly or tacitly (that is, generally), such as when they discuss the virtues (prudence and temperance seem the most relevant; the vice of curiosity is op

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