>Autistic-spectrum -- blah, blah... >This list is not for psychiatric labeling of anyone.
>Jean [Loius] Well said. I detest people who try to change others to be more like themselves. The stupidity of it reminds me of Nietzsche's rebuke in Twilight of the Idols: >Let us finally consider how naive it is altogether to say: "Man ought to be >such and such!" Reality shows us an enchanting wealth of types, the abundance >of a lavish play and change of forms--and some wretched loafer of a moralist >comments: "No! Man ought to be different." He even knows what man should be >like, this wretched bigot and prig: he paints himself on the wall and >comments, "Ecce homo!" But even when the moralist addresses himself only to >the single human being and says to him, "You ought to be such and such!" he >does not cease to make himself ridiculous. The single human being is a piece >of fatum from the front and from the rear, one law more, one necessity more >for all that is yet to come and to be. To say to him, "Change yourself!" is to >demand that everything be changed, even retroactively. And indeed there have >been consistent moralists who wanted man to be different, that is, >virtuous--they wanted him remade in their own image, as a prig: to that end, >they negated the world! No small madness! No modest kind of immodesty! _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
