The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral criminal should be locked up in jail. Since almost the only available system of rehabilitation in America is to be locked up in jail, the difference remains highly abstract.
William RyanTag: society prison self-righteousness enlightened criminal-justice victim-blaming criminal-justice-policy
I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
George MacDonald FraserTag: self-righteousness flashman george-macdonald-fraser
I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora’s a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.
William FaulknerTag: faith trust self-righteousness
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.
Criss JamiTag: judgment hypocrisy attitude virtues self-righteousness exaggeration spoiled virtue-signalling
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss JamiTag: truth honesty humility sin hypocrisy openness confession pride vulnerability dishonesty self-righteousness righteousness concealment exposing
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.
Richard RohrTag: reaction self-righteousness discernment
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
Pema ChödrönTag: self-image self-righteousness self-justification
I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.
Hannah MoreTag: sin temptation self-righteousness vice
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
Shannon L. AlderTag: god religion relationships dogma rules novels problems conflict commandments privacy talk ridiculous self-righteousness gospel neighbors mental-illness piety obviousness move-on communicate preaching forgive facebook reach-out religions relentless silly pious out-there insecure be-kind low-self-esteem worthless hidden-agendas slighted over-the-top building-people-up end-it-with-talking jilted love-everyone making-a-point practice-what-you-preach tearing-people-down upfront
Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the swimming was easy in one particular experience, he was internally congratulating himself on his acquired skill. But when he realized he was swimming with a current he would now have to fight against, he realized just how definite his limits were.
Shankar VedantamTag: subconscious self-righteousness bias
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