Thank you for being a counterexample.
Thinking more of others is a control tactic. Are you familiar with the term non sequitur.
Yes, please. Why does God demand humility? Or does he? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?
Infer what you will:
He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
A manâs pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Thinking more of others is NOT humility. Compassion and human empathy are the very evolved human qualities.
Christopher Hitchens on Humility:
Putting yourself first is?
One more, just to be clear:
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
This is not a phrase you should use.
Scornful insult noted (but is scripture that is being clear).
I donât wish to insult you, but you seem incapable of clearly stating a point, and I want you to know that.
You know very well what the point is, and you are disingenuously making like you donât. Is that clear?
Now thatâs insulting: you are accusing me of dishonesty. No, I donât know what the point is. Youâre all over the place; you seem to have just searched for every bible quote that mentions humility or something similar. Meanwhile, why does God demand humility?
Iâm sorry that you donât get it that legitimate authority conceptually demands humility from those over whom it has jurisdiction⌠because it is a legitimate authority.
You are correct that I donât get that. I doubt that you can explain. Nor do I see a good reason why God should be considered a legitimate authority. Genuinely legitimate authorities derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, to coin a phrase.
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You donât think that by virtue of being agents of a âgenuinely legitimate authorityâ, even using your definition, humility is demanded by the judicial system?
Why do you think judges are addressed as âYour Honorâ?
Why do you think contempt of court or resisting arrest citations are issued â because of an excess of humility?
Humility is NOT demanded by the judicial system. We are a country of laws. The US Constitution starts with âWe The Peopleâ. The people demand that everyone respects the judicial system. In going to court, regardless of whether it is municipal traffic court or the US Supreme Court, we address the judge as âyour Honorâ NOT as a statement of humility but one of RESPECT for the court and the ideals of liberty and justice that the court represents.