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"The fundamental human currency is attention; it's one thing to be hated and it's another thing entirely to be ignored." [1]
"The other thing that's interesting about that reflexive identification of sympathy with virtue is that it's actually extraordinarily immature, as far as I'm concerned. Because most complex problems aren't solvable by reflexive sympathy, and reflexive sympathy is more like an instinct, it's more like jealousy or rage, or love for that matter. It doesn't have that cognitive component that enables you to take apart complex systems and to analyse them and determine what the problem is, what a solution might look like, and to lay that out in a cold and calculated manner towards some positive end.
"It's this automatic assumption that because you are overwhelmed with pity, that somehow makes you morally virtuous, and not only does it not make you a morally virtuous, it's often the case that ... that all-encompassing pity has a devouring component, and that's that over-protectiveness that Jonathan Haidt and Lukianoff have been writing about.
"The reflexive idea that because you are a sympathetic person you're good is bad enough in addition to the fact that all the sympathy is [thought to be] on the radical Left, which it certainly isn't." [2]
C-16
I thought that the politicians overstepped the political boundary, and entered into a different realm, and that was a realm I happen to hold rather dear, and so that was cast as a political issue, whereas for me it wasn't, it was a philosophical or even a theological issue.[3]
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