It is important to note that Mencian beginnings of morality are not just blind feelings or primitive urges to act in certain ways, but contain within them certain intuitive judgments about what is right and wrong, what is to be disdained and what is deferential, respectful behavior.
Since some actions clearly benefit us while others clearly harm us, acting on blind feelings is self-destructive.
Anyway, these Augustines chodes are trying so hard to nail blind feelings of Bush-era indie uplift that it starts to get straight-up anachronistic, and reminds me why I started listening to a bunch of Pissed Jeans after the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act was vetoed.
"How can you learn to do science," asks Minderhout Thorsell, "if you don't practice it with others?" Students in active learning classes complain about the blind-leading-the-blind feeling of discussing information they haven't yet mastered.
"A great poet … must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child".
On closer examination, however, this method resembled too closely the tale of the five blind men feeling up the elephant.
Yet on these issues, the reports are like three blind men feeling different parts of an elephant.
