If he is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.

I think people generally underestimate how hard it is to permanently kill their ego. What ends up happening, then, is that a lot of people genuinely believe that they have humility when in actuality they don't.

Like in the same way that windows has "won" in that it has 99% of desktop market share yet I can still use Linux happily.

I don't want government regulation here for the same reason I don't want the gov to step in and tell Linux what regulations it has to follow

You're moving the burden of enforcement from the kernel to the user level ?

What is the ultimate good for humans? Specifically what does the good for us, and thus our well-being or happiness, ultimately consist?

It cannot be wealth, because wealth exists only for the sake of something else which we might acquire with it (ST I-II.2.1).

It cannot be honor, because honor accrues to someone only as a consequence of realizing some good, and thus cannot itself be an ultimate good (ST I-II.2.2).

For similar reasons, it cannot be fame or glory either, which are in any case often achieved for things that are not really good in the first place (ST I-II.2.3).

Nor can it be power, for power is a means rather than an end and might be used to bring about evil rather than genuine good (ST I-II.2.4).

It cannot be pleasure, because pleasure is also a consequence of realizing a good rather than the realization of a good itself; even less likely is it to be bodily pleasure specifically, since the body exists for the sake of the soul, which is immaterial (ST I-II.2.6).

Aquinas identifies three general categories of goods inherent in our nature.

First are those we share in common with all living things, such as the preservation of our existence,

Second are those common to animals specifically, such as sexual intercourse and the child-rearing activities that naturally follow upon it.

Third are those peculiar to us as rational animals, such as "to know the truth about God, and to live in society," "to shun ignorance," and "to avoid offending those among whom one has to live" (ST I-II.94.2).

These goods are ordered in a hierarchy corresponding to the hierarchy of living things (i.e. those with vege-tative, sensory, and rational souls respectively).

The higher goods presuppose the lower ones; for example, one cannot pursue truth if one is not able to conserve oneself in existence. But the lower goods are subordinate to the higher ones in the sense that they exist for the sake of the higher ones.

Same thing happened in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century. Most of the radical revolutionary groups had a core of highly dedicated and highly educated people.

University students being the most radical and prone to revolution has always been the case.

Elites revolt when they feel that they are getting a bad deal in the existing social order. This happens when the elites which are being produced cannot be absorbed into the existing social hierarchy. That's why unemployed students from elite universities - some of the most intelligent and capable in society, yet they have no income - are the most dangerous - because they have the most to gain from a successful revolution and very little to lose.

> Iran has told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz and charge tolls for the remaining period of the cease-fire, officials familiar with the matter said. > > Vessels that pass through the waterway will need to coordinate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC would still be able to block ships that belong to countries Iran deems hostile

Source: WSJ a couple hours ago.