RE: How do you calm down the hot-heads?

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 12:27:01 MDT

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    Robbie wrote:

    >
    > But you may have a moral imperative to die. It may be the best
    > possible thing you could do - to actually be brave. There certainly
    > are prima facie obvious cases where bravery would demand
    > self-sacrifice and if one took bravery to be among the highest of
    > human moral abilities, then one would think that making a world in
    > which people could be brave would be a high moral priority for people
    > who are trying to decide whether to make a world in which people live
    > forever or in which they die.
    >
    > If you think it's sophistry, try to rewrite human morality without
    > bravery and say genuinely to yourself that you want to want THAT.
    >

    ### I'd perfectly satisfied with a world without a single brave person, if
    bravery means willing to die for a cause. Hot-heads are a nuisance.
    Competent performance of contracts is all I would ask for.

    Rafal

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