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The rub lies in that not everyone considers their obviously cruel actions to be so.

I can follow that. And I've never been deliberately cruel to anyone yet either, so good.

So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".

Yeah quotes are a poor mans poetry. I think what he is saying though is that "disgust" breads "cruelty.

>> ^HollywoodBob:
The rub lies in that not everyone considers their obviously cruel actions to be so.


The rub is that not all actions are obviously cruel.
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In fact, moderns society is the most advanced one to have ever made such (probably) non-deliberate advances in masking it's cruelty in the form of help, caring, and love.
And THAT, is truly disgusting.

>> ^maximillian:
So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".


It's just a way of saying things for crying out loud. He's making a point that deliberate cruelty is the worse thing about humanity. Stop taking it so literally.

Hahaha... Nice try, but no adding moral imperatives of any kind to my secular egoism.

>> ^maximillian:
So does watching someone (a stranger) consume copious amounts of alcohol or drugs fall under "nothing disgusts me?" How about someone exhibiting other acts such as sloth, gluttony, vainglory, greed, or self-pride even if they are not trying to be cruel to someone else? Should we not, in love, try to get that person to better themselves? Under this motto we shouldn't because it doesn't "disgusts me".


Easy now, Judge Dread...he didn't say anything about action, just perspective. Compassion comes from understanding, not contempt.

If you're viewing others with disgust, maybe you should be disgusted by your own hubris? Just a thought.

>> ^Thumper:
Yeah quotes are a poor mans poetry. I think what he is saying though is that "disgust" breads "cruelty.


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