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Alan Smith's avatar

Love as an action, not just an abstraction.

For myself, if I consider love as a behavior, I can judge whether I am acting with love or not. I find that helpful.

Example from Brene Brown: can I cheat on someone I love? I don't know. But I can judge that behavior as not acting with love.

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Jonas's avatar

I like the thesis but I don't think the starting assumption is correct. We don't constantly check our words & deeds for incoherency or hypocracy. Rather I think we only check that for people we don't trust.

We don't even check much the coherency of the words & deeds of people close to us. Except in moments of uncertainty / mistrust. The person who constantly checked themselves would be commonly viewed as insecure.

Despite that, the rest of your thesis still works. People still like to hide motives because they're afraid they won't be sufficiently trusted by others, or maybe because they don't sufficiently trust others. And being reluctant to throw stones at shared glass houses is very good way of describing it!

In an environment of rising distrust, shared glass houses may become deemed some of the most sacred things around.

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