[MD] Morality and Prudence

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, all -

Morals can't only be about empathy/compassion, though, because that's not 
all there is to human life or to human survival. We have to include 
aggression - the yang side to the yin - or else we will be forever partial 
and have nothing to say to dominant personalities. Hypertrophic 
compassion/empathy is problematic, and on a very wide scale could be as 
troublesome long-term as hypertrophic aggression or atrophic compassion.

I like to say that compassion is empathy that puts its act on the road.


MRB
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