09-20-2020, 12:13 AM
(09-19-2020, 04:12 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: @"beez"
Quote:but why do we HAVE to be kind to anyone when they die?
To do what is proper, and to set a good example. If we are unable to do those things, then we have no claim to moral leadership.
Cheers
I cannot claim any "moral leadership", or indeed any sort of morality at all, so it's probably a good thing that I never have. I call stuff like I see it - call it a character defect, probably a genetic one.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’