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Re: Support RMS


From: Lusin
Subject: Re: Support RMS
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:34:02 +0000

>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!




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