Pyrrhus and Cineas
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"A young woman becomes irritated because the holes in her shoes let in water. If I say to her, "So what?" Think of the millions of people who are starving in. China," she will angrily respond, "They are in China. And it is my shoe that has a hole. However, another woman may cry about the horror of the Chinese famine. If I say to her: “What does that matter to you? You are not hungry,” she would look at me with scorn: “What does my own comfort matter?”" |
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Pyrrhus and Cineas is an essay by Simone de Beauvoir, discussing the futility or utility of action.
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