“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.” MayStillsIdeasReasonRealityIndividualFunSinPleasureMorningStupidColdGoodnessMachinesBetrayalDumbNosesDawnPleasantGood TimesGrayGoing OutDiscipleshipAdulterySinningMorning AfterLove JealousyResidual Book:Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus
“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenShouldDifferentPhilosophyUseGovernmentEvilIndividualWhiteMillionsRightsStupidProgramMurderAssumingInternationalFavorsDamnGasRepublicGenocideAggressionSocialistInterfereNaziRestraintWhite ManFree MarketScopeChamberThumbsAtheisticAdvocatingIndividual RightsGas Chambers Author:Jonah Goldberg
“You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.” PeopleStatesFactsFacesEvilIndividualStupidLogicCriminalsArguingInsaneHelplessness Author:L. Neil Smith
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.” PeopleHumansMatterMomentsFactsTurnsIndividualStupidActivityIntelligentStupidityRationalJudgedImprobableInconvenientMonotonyHuman Stupidity Author:Carlo M. Cipolla