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To: average joe who wrote (71008)	7/27/2003 5:16:07 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) of 82486

"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty" Of course, like so many of his glib pronouncements...it is untrue. Oh, sorry--I missed that "sin" part. His concern is not about "worst" as in pain and suffering. He was talking about "sin". That is why intellectual cruelty is "worst"--not because of the severe pain it causes (as most of us would define the degree to which cruelty is good, better, or best), but because it is a "sin". And why is intellectual cruelty the "worst" sin to which cruelty can attain? Well, he doesn't say. One presumes that he feels that the ill will and heartlessness of stupid people is less contemptible. Why that should be, I don't know; but I am sure he would have had a metaphor near to hand to make it very obscure but persuasive to many... In any case, the whip of a caustic wit is "certainly" a far graver sin than rape and torture from some dim-witted thug. After all, one measures degrees of cruelty by the "sin" categories it falls into...not by the pain and suffering it causes.

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