The downvotes this comment has received probably indicate that the downvoters either don’t understand the quote or perhaps think I was quoting myself.
I saw this unattributed quote on a web forum. The quote is speaking to emotional truths that, in all likelihood, can’t be understood without life experience. It has to do with rationality because we are all emotional and social creatures, and therefore emotional awareness is extremely important to our mental health, with repercussions that extend to every aspect of our lives. Not being emotionally aware and healthy will be a hindrance to pretty much any other goal a rationalist might pursue.
The downvotes this comment has received probably indicate that the downvoters either don’t understand the quote or perhaps think I was quoting myself.
No. I downvoted (now) because it is a terribly inelegant and inaccurate way to express the slight grain of truth in the concept space.
The quote is speaking to emotional truths that, in all likelihood, can’t be understood without life experience.
It isn’t complicated at all. Someone raised in a bubble could understand given either a rudimentary education about animal behavior or a couple of sentences explanation.
I understand it fine; I object to it on literary grounds (healed/heal breaks the rhythmic symmetry) and a general suspicion that this is the kind of New Agey sentiment that seems correct initially but breaks down catastrophically when one finally finds some empirical evidence relating to it and is revealed to be nothing but a platitude.
“Hurt people hurt people and healed people heal people.”
The downvotes this comment has received probably indicate that the downvoters either don’t understand the quote or perhaps think I was quoting myself.
I saw this unattributed quote on a web forum. The quote is speaking to emotional truths that, in all likelihood, can’t be understood without life experience. It has to do with rationality because we are all emotional and social creatures, and therefore emotional awareness is extremely important to our mental health, with repercussions that extend to every aspect of our lives. Not being emotionally aware and healthy will be a hindrance to pretty much any other goal a rationalist might pursue.
No. I downvoted (now) because it is a terribly inelegant and inaccurate way to express the slight grain of truth in the concept space.
It isn’t complicated at all. Someone raised in a bubble could understand given either a rudimentary education about animal behavior or a couple of sentences explanation.
I didn’t downvote it, but other possibilities are that it wasn’t attributed, and that people just don’t consider it a very good rationality quote.
I understand it fine; I object to it on literary grounds (healed/heal breaks the rhythmic symmetry) and a general suspicion that this is the kind of New Agey sentiment that seems correct initially but breaks down catastrophically when one finally finds some empirical evidence relating to it and is revealed to be nothing but a platitude.