More to the point - why should I be doing anything? You're the one trying to convince me of something. At least show me something to tempt me, insterad of just telling me how narrow-minded and boneheaded and stupid I am. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Stating on the outset that you've failed means you don't want to enter the trajectory proposed.
That's ok, but that does not mean that you can't; it's not your inability in the sense of insufficient qualities.
Stating that one can't while one doesn't want is what Sartre calls bad faith.
I'm not calling you the names indicated or any other. I try to make a case without any penalizing labels, since that is neither my style nor productive.
You as Jerome don't have to do anything. You as an intellectual have a moral obligation to use your qualities to relief suffering on this planet.
When confronted with fundamental issues as I tried to raise here, an intellectual should be curious in the sense of inquiring within and go out on a limb to get to the root of the matter.
Are you not tempted by the perspecetive to develop your Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Albert Schweizer cs qualities?
Emil
