Ingratitude offends us as deeply as it does because it violates the pre-cognitive sensibility of desert.
We consider the ingrate as unspeakably vile not because ingratitude produces such terrible consequences but because ingratitude feels unnatural, grotesque, morally monstrous, almost.
Our outrage against ingratitude is the expression of civil society policing conduct that police power cannot enforce.
Ingratitude cannot be prohibited legally, it can only be shunned as illegitimate.
No comments:
Post a Comment