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foodnaptime t1_ixr4eb3 wrote

Reply to comment by ValyrianJedi in [Image] "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson by Butterflies_Books

I think Kant would say that’s even better than helping people because you enjoy helping people — you don’t really feel like it, but you do it anyway out of recognition of and respect for what you believe morality requires of you.

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Dymonika t1_ixsyfdr wrote

This is interesting because I think I'm always like this: forcefully moral with others to the point of being friendship-repulsing, lol. Is that still "even better," then?

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