Respect for human life is likely to exist in any one who has taken trouble over his or her own children. It is the trouble we take over our children that elicits the stronger forms of parental affection; in those who avoid this trouble the parental instinct becomes more or less atrophied, and remains only as a sense of responsibility.
Source: Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, Pt. 2： Education of character, chap. 6: Constructiveness.
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There are quite a few politicians who repeatedly use phrases like “protecting the lives of the people” or “putting human lives first.” However, it often feels as though they are parroting such words not out of genuine affection for the people but solely out of a sense of responsibility as politicians.
Russell’s remark, “It is the trouble we take over our children that elicits the stronger forms of parental affection (it is by taking on the trouble for one’s children that stronger parental love is generated),” seems thought-provoking. Of course, it goes without saying that the relationship between politicians and citizens is not the same as that between parents and their children.
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Source: Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, Pt. 2： Education of character, chap. 6: Constructiveness.
More info.： https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE06-050.HTM
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There are quite a few politicians who repeatedly use phrases like “protecting the lives of the people” or “putting human lives first.” However, it often feels as though they are parroting such words not out of genuine affection for the people but solely out of a sense of responsibility as politicians.
Russell’s remark, “It is the trouble we take over our children that elicits the stronger forms of parental affection (it is by taking on the trouble for one’s children that stronger parental love is generated),” seems thought-provoking. Of course, it goes without saying that the relationship between politicians and citizens is not the same as that between parents and their children.
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