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ON THE FORMATION OF WHO YOU ARE
Leave home.‘ Don’ t argue that you can’ t find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can ' t find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed. Soaccustom yourself to a new style.’
‘ Many of you have parents who, for loving reasons, are willing to prolong your adolescence if you let them. Don’ t let them.’
Being judgemental is good,
and you don’ t have a choice anyway.‘ What I’ m about to say assumes that the purpose of human life is not just to pass the time between birth and death as pleasantly as possible, with as little trouble as possible. Life should consist of something more than leisure and transient pleasures. Can we agree on that?’
‘ I want to emphasize that being judgmental is not the same as being intolerant.’
‘ But you can’ t get your desire to be tolerant get in the way of your obligation to reach moral judgments.’
‘ You not only need to do it; you must. The failure to do so doesn ' t define you as non-judgmental. It defines you as lazy. To refuse to think about what constitutes moral behaviour- not just for you, but for human beings as a species- is to reject one of the fundamental responsibilities of living human life.’
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