An Atrophied Sense of Charity

[Robin Landseadel]

Don't know if ya'll want to hear any more on this, but a post at  
Andrew Sullivan's blog caught my attention:

	" . . . I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online,
	and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a
	society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied
	sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the 		
	classic virtues. . . "

Same post, different voice:

	". . . other times I fear that I'm either getting sucked into fruitless
	exchanges, or worse still, participating in needlessly hostile
	discourse myself. As a friend recently put it, "I have to say, you
	keep trying to have a Lincoln-Douglas debate with feces-
	hurling howler monkeys, eventually you start looking silly too" . . ."

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