If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
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If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas.
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Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.
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Sticking up for truth when its unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something - your reputation. If you are a journalist and act in way that risks ostracism, you are virtuous. Some people only express their opinion as part of mob shaming, when it is safe to do so, and, in the bargain, think that they are displaying virtue. This is not virtue but vice, a mixture of bullying and cowardice.
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas.
[---]
Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.
[---]
Sticking up for truth when its unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something - your reputation. If you are a journalist and act in way that risks ostracism, you are virtuous. Some people only express their opinion as part of mob shaming, when it is safe to do so, and, in the bargain, think that they are displaying virtue. This is not virtue but vice, a mixture of bullying and cowardice.
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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