From: Kalkor (kalkor@kalkor.com)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:22:02 MST
[Erik]
If I say I'm going to meet you at noon, and then I don't show up... Is that
hypocratic? Or is it a lack in integrity?
Perhaps. Perhaps we should add the "positive reinforcement" versions for
clarity.
[Kalkor]
To cop another analogy, what if you have a firm dedication to your study of
neurochemistry, and a potential breakthrough in understanding rears its ugly
head an hour before your appointment? It would NOT be hypocrisy to stay and
work on the breakthrough, because your actions are consistent with your
thoughts. However, it shows a lack of integrity in that you made a promise
but let another promise (to your internal consistency) sway you into
breaking the lunch engagement.
On the flip side, you could have integrity in that you refuse to miss the
lunch engagement while being hypocritical to yourself (you promised yourself
a week ago that if the results of experiment X turned out a certain way, you
would stay through experiment Y to avoid losing your train of thought or
whatever.) You still want to stay and work, and you have rational reasons
for staying to work, but you chose the irrational path of making the lunch
date to avoid lacking integrity.
It just seems like too fuzzy a concept to try and anchor it as a Virian
Virtue.
Kalkor
--- To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:21:37 MST