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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics
Subject: Re: Pride (re Ed Hall's mind)
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Date: Sat, 25-May-85 13:52:45 EDT
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Summary: 

If one should only take pride in what one oneself is, then it's a knotty
philosophic problem as to whether one is morally entitled to pride in the
achievements of one's past.  (Certainly it's easy enough to say that one
has outgrown the stupidities of one's youth and shouldn't be ashamed of
them any more.  By the same token, if one's gotten lazy, is one entitled
to pridefully boast about the accomplishments of one's long lost youth?)

In practice, one takes pride in ANYTHING one identifies with.  And for
most of us that takes in a lot of territory.  Our youth, our family,
our friends, our co-workers, our co-religionists, our compatriots, our
fellow women (or men), our fellow humans--and once we contact the dolphins
or Martians or whatever--our fellow sentients.

First convince a sports fan not to be proud of the home team.  Then come
back and tell the net alll you've learned about pride.

--Lee Gold