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Is anything the beginning of wisdom?
A soldier fears the dictator... and shoots children.
A mobster fears the don... and murders innocent people.
An abused wife fears her husband... and lets him beat the crap out of her.
A man with a wallet fears his mugger... and gives him his wallet.
Fear dulls the mind to the point of stimulus-response. It does not evoke CLEAR thinking,
just IMMEDIATE thinking. Hasty, desperate thinking.
That's not thinking I'd like to rely on.
I say fear of anything is the beginning of obedience, not morality OR wisdom.
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- Anonymous6 years ago
Fear is the beginning of submission, obedience would imply a sense of individual-responsibility which you very aptly pointed out is one of the first things to leave a person when they fear someone, or something.
The beginning of wisdom is when you take 1 step back from input, look at it(observe, analyze), and choose a response that is constructive(so it makes things better, for you, and everybody around you).