To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The why shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him better.
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