Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Joe Rogan Spreads Rightwing Lie About Forest Fires" video.
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@alienanxiety "Martyrdom, of course, was always admired, but martyrdom for the truth. If they were witnesses to falsehood there was nothing admirable about them: perhaps something to be pitied, certainly nothing to be admired. By the 1820s you find an outlook in which the state of mind, the motive, is more important than the consequence, the intention more important than the effect. Purity of heart, integrity, devotion, dedication - all these things which we ourselves admire without much difficulty, which have entered into the very texture of our normal moral attitudes, became more or less commonplace, first among minorities; then gradually they spread outwards."
The Roots of Romanticism, Isaiah Berlin
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