watched the emperor's club today during civics. it was thought-provoking though i'd watched it before. just that the thoughts slip away so fast before one can grasp hold of it and write it down.
i think morals and virtues are good things to have but inconvenient in the real world if you want to get somewhere. few people advance their position by being 'honorable' because it often means one gets taken advantage of by another. it's too idealistic.
brutus was idealistic. brutus was also killed. perhaps the price of ideals and morals and virtues would be less costly in other 'enterprise' that is not politics.
idealisticism is often at odds with real situations because not everyone holds the same moral standards, the same principles. there is no assurance that it would be 'fair'. but perhaps the concept of fairness was born out of a selfishness that if one is not doing it, then others shouldn't do it too.
it's easy to be idealistic in theory. it's also easy to fail in practical. humans are, after all, fallible creatures.
sidenote: i wish i had teachers like mr hundert. and i miss lit.
