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That's a really judgmental statement.Jealousy is an animal instinct. Someone takes food you want, bop him on the head. Someone takes a woman you want, bop her on the head. Protect your genes. It's stupid, but most people are stupid enough to fall under any random feeling they get without questioning it.
Yes, it is. Unlike wishy-washy intellectual cowards, I judge everything according to my understanding and my values. Judgment and discrimination are both features of a discerning and methodical person.That's a really judgmental statement.
Yes, it is. Unlike wishy-washy intellectual cowards, I judge everything according to my understanding and my values. Judgment and discrimination are both features of a discerning and methodical person.
The only reason most problems exist is because most people are short-sighted and willfully ignorant, who protect their false self-image (from religion, politics, cultural norms etc) with arrogance and hostility. It makes no sense to be aware of the many problems within the human race and then pretend that there isn't something fundamentally screwed up with people's heads.
It is useful when keeping relationships together is important to society.
Better question: if it's not making you happy, what possible purpose could a relationship serve?How does jealousy keep a relationship together?
Arrogance is to be distinguished from pride. The conflation of pride and real certainty (based on knowledge) with arrogance is all part of the cult of anti-individualism and the democratic man. The person isn't supposed to recognize the fact that he may very well be superior to other people, which is a fantastic method of ignoring reality while marginalizing those who rise above the herd.
The difference between confidence and arrogance is justification.
Aside from what values one holds as to 'superiority', the status of that superiority is, at least in principle, objective. All of reality is, in fact, since it exists materially and without exception adheres to logical principles.
And it is quite common to hear the mantra that 'nobody is better than anybody else'. We get it in newspapers, sociology, pseudo-philosophy, television, government schooling and everywhere else. Most people in practice do recognize differences between people - because they're not suicidal or totally irrational - but the prevailing mantra of western democracies is egalitarianism.
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