(October 30, 2012 at 10:38 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Our instinct to believe in praiseworthy actions. We wouldn't have survived if we didn't. But just because we have the concept of praiseworthy actions and praise an action, it doesn't make it praiseworthy.Elephant in the room: Of course it does, because as you said directly before making this statement, we set the criteria ourselves. If it meets the criteria we have set it is "praiseworthy".
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