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Nov 2002
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:29
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Originally posted by Sprayber
Duty? I'm beginning to lean towards the belief that one's only duty is to oneself. Because careing only seems to work if it goes both ways. |
Depends on if it's personal, or generalized. If you're talking any personal relationship of any nature, then it does pretty much only "work" if it's two ways. Part of caring in the personal context, and most of it in the general context, is more about your own character than about the object of whatever you care about. If you care about a former friend who is on a self-destructive binge and doesn't give a ****, it reflects on your basic decency as a human being, but the trick is you have to keep things in perspective and not let it consume you - it's beyond your control.
In the general sense, if there's a genocide in the Republic of Bum****ia for the umpteenth time, it's a tragedy, but there's a big limit to what you can individually do about it - you have to realistically temper how much you care, with what you can do about the situation, and your own needs.
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If it's a one way arrangement, it only leads to bitterness. |
If you put yourself into it too much, yes. The trick is to balance your own needs, and make sure you don't neglect those.
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I heard once that a true cynic was once a romantic. I wonder now if that is true. |
A true cynic still is a romantic, but one who has collided with that freight train known as reality a time or too.  True cynicism still requires a depth of feeling, it's different from the sort of vacuous, snide, pseudo-cynicism that's common among the mean-assed apathetic types who really don't give a **** about anything but themselves (and often not that, either.)
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