Why should I gleefully engage in hubris? Pride is a very dangerous thing.
I am not proud. I am humbled! Pride without merit is a sin no less self-indulgent than gluttony or lust. If I look at the actions of people in the past, I am often amazed, impressed, awed. If I look at the actions of myself, I can only find them lacking compared to the stellar examples of noble pursuits in history.
Someone who is proud of being an immutable arbitrary characteristic, is saying they're BETTER than all those who came before, because pride implies great personal accomplishment. It spits on the faces of others in that arbitrary immutable characteristic group, to say "I am not humbled, nah, I stand amongst the best on offer".
Why should I gleefully engage in hubris? Pride is a very dangerous thing.
I am not proud. I am humbled! Pride without merit is a sin no less self-indulgent than gluttony or lust. If I look at the actions of people in the past, I am often amazed, impressed, awed. If I look at the actions of myself, I can only find them lacking compared to the stellar examples of noble pursuits in history.
Someone who is proud of being an immutable arbitrary characteristic, is saying they're BETTER than all those who came before, because pride implies great personal accomplishment. It spits on the faces of others in that arbitrary immutable characteristic group, to say "I am not humbled, nah, I stand amongst the best on offer".