(Originally written September 9, 2005 in Book 2)
Why I am not a Christian
Bertrand Russell
1957
Nice People
"The chief characteristic of nice people is the laudable practice of improvement upon reality" (Russell, 152).
Nice people do not come in contact with the crudeness of reality, for if they did they would have to act as ferocious as reality and therefore, no longer be nice.
Nice people send out people who would be nice, but have to work in reality, to hunt out the not nice people in order to imprison, kill or by some other means punish them for being not nice.
A nice person must have a high social standing for otherwise they would not have the means necessary to be nice.
Missionaries travel with the cotton trade to 'savages' to help them cover the shamefulness of the human body. The spread of virtue is done through profits.
Nice people do not like truth because truth is shocking. Nice people like things that are not shocking.
Wisdom increases sorrow and nice people increase sorrow to spread wisdom.
Nice people hate pleasure because pleasure is wicked.
Nice people are dying out because being happy is no longer looked down upon by society.
Nice people hate pleasure and sex.
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