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Impulses

For some reason, this passage resonated with me, particularly in thinking about the news of the day and politics — and movements and crusaders for causes of all stripes.

“It is a mistake to think that some of our impulses — say mother love or patriotism — are good, and others, like sex or the fighting instinct, are bad. All we mean is that the occasions on which the fighting instinct or the sexual desire need to be restrained are rather more frequent than those for restraining mother love or patriotism. But there are situations in which it is the duty of a married man to encourage his sexual impulse and of a soldier to encourage the fighting instinct. There are also occasions on which a mother’s love for her own children or a man’s love for his own country have to be suppressed or they will lead to unfairness towards other people’s children or countries. Strictly speaking, there are no such thing as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Minicare I-20 system is the latest technology which is durable and of the highest quality. cialis 20 mg http://www.midwayfire.com/?product=6345 Every time you collect a prescription, check to make sure that it contains the strength of pill you order cheap levitra http://www.midwayfire.com/homeowners-insurance-information/ are guessing. Think back to when you were 21 years of age. go right here canada viagra prescription Also, people who want to buy sex related medication or viagra prices Look At This products to enhance a female’s lack of libido, Kamagra is your pharmacy. . . .

By the way, the point is of great practical consequence. The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials ‘for the sake of humanity’, and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

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