[lit-ideas] Re: (No References, etc.)

  • From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:49:16 -0700 (PDT)

I was using the word with a bit of art.  But nice
might be what happens when everyone is treated
equally.  Imagine if everyone had a punching bag in
their house, and used it whenever they had the urge to
do/say something nasty, and dumped all their nastiness
on the punching bag, then was truly nice, not kind,
not good, not right, just nice to each other, what a
pleasant, and even safe world this would be?  The
human race is so close, yet so far...



--- John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My "take" on this:
> "Nice" is socially expected behavior.  It's
> unreflective morality, 
> conventional.
> "Good" is doing one's duty, treating others fairly.
> "Right" is what one sometimes is forced to do to
> save your friends' life 
> from the giant, even if that giant is "good."
> 
> One would want to be "nice" because that's what is
> expected in shallow, 
> normal society. Women especially have
> been taught to be "nice" rather than "good" or
> "right."
> :
> 
>
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