The bastards out there lost the right to use terms like "truth". They lost the right for losing all respect for the term "honesty". What you might not realize is that you haven't.
A truly "souless" (selfless?) individual wouldn't have reacted in that situation. They would have said something deliberately wrong, and they would have done it so consistently for so long that they wouldn't believe it. You, however, feel the panic of facing yourself. Using ordinary language, it means that you panic knowing that there is a 'self', and that is what disturbs you; you are wrong, in the ethical sense, but not from the unjustifiable viewpoint. The brute who destroyed his self and forgotten it is inexcusable; the man who, facing a vaccuum of reason, retreated from his self, from himself, who never passed a judgment (conciously) and never took a stance (publicly), is as much a victim as he is unethical. The difference between a brute and the recluse (such as yourself) is the difference between murder and suicide
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A truly "souless" (selfless?) individual wouldn't have reacted in that situation. They would have said something deliberately wrong, and they would have done it so consistently for so long that they wouldn't believe it. You, however, feel the panic of facing yourself. Using ordinary language, it means that you panic knowing that there is a 'self', and that is what disturbs you; you are wrong, in the ethical sense, but not from the unjustifiable viewpoint. The brute who destroyed his self and forgotten it is inexcusable; the man who, facing a vaccuum of reason, retreated from his self, from himself, who never passed a judgment (conciously) and never took a stance (publicly), is as much a victim as he is unethical. The difference between a brute and the recluse (such as yourself) is the difference between murder and suicide ( ... )
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