"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting." - Picard
"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting." - Picard
TNG s2e9 "The Measue of a Man"
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That's a great quote. I like it.
The stoicism of Marcus Aurelius rings true even now. Also a brilliant TNG episode, well worth the occasional rewatch.
Idk, kind of a trash philosophy when applied.
I'm sure all the world's greatest dictators thought themselves the best of men.
The assumption being that no outside influence or previous experience be considered is a bit short sided. Of course, so is the originating quotation. We try to hope for the best and work with what we've got.
But we should always strive to learn more rational, logical, infallible truths than we currently know.
He's not wrong, dammit. He's just an asshole.
Being a good person is a trash philosophy?
Right, now go read the second of two sentences in my comment.
So... don't be a good person because you could actually be one of the world's greatest dictators. Yeah, that makes sense.
Good being purely subjective and constantly misappropriated by evil makes it a pretty shit philosophy, yes.
Being "good" without democratically and meritocratically defining an objective good is a shit philosophy.