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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by coldtea on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:14AM (#21988823)
>Following your heart is a virtue.

No, that's a modern misconception.

"Following your heart" is just an action with no moral value in itself. Whether it's a virtue depends on the contents of your heart.

All kinds of scumbags and horrible people who hurt others "followed their heart" in doing so.

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Re:People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige by titzer on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:23PM (#22003222)
Who cares about virtue? All we should really measure is destructiveness. If following your heart isn't destructive, then go for it. Make your own virtues out of something else.
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