# Why should one be generous?
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652
**Category:** Non-Philosophical Chat
**Created:** [October 13, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652 "2008-10-13T06:07:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ice](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ice)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/1 "2008-10-13T06:07:37Z")
Is it better to be generous? Why or why not?
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Reasonable](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Mr_Reasonable)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/2 "2008-10-13T06:39:35Z")
It’s best to be generous with the right people and the right things, if the people and the things are wrong, then those times it’s wrong.
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### Author:  [@Kriswest](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Kriswest)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/3 "2008-10-13T12:21:41Z")
Smears said it very well.
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### Author:  [@amor\_fati](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/amor_fati)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/4 "2008-10-13T15:31:29Z")
suppose generosity were a virtue
like every virtue, then, it tends toward stupidity, and every stupidity toward virtue
where o where is that fine line to be drawn?
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### Author:  [@Impenitent](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Impenitent)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/5 "2008-10-13T20:00:16Z")
who needs to be virtuous when the government is there to force your virtuous nature? wealth redistribution et.al…
-Imp
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### Author:  [@willem](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/willem)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/6 "2008-10-13T21:05:56Z")
> [@Impenitent](#):
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> who needs to be virtuous when the government is there to force your virtuous nature? wealth redistribution et.al…
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> -Imp
surely the government defines and prescribes every possible virtue
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### Author:  [@Impenitent](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Impenitent)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/7 "2008-10-14T01:25:54Z")
> [@willem](#):
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> > [@Impenitent](#):
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> > who needs to be virtuous when the government is there to force your virtuous nature? wealth redistribution et.al…
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> > -Imp
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> surely the government defines and prescribes every possible virtue
exactly…
(and quit calling me shirley)
-Imp
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### Author:  [@willem](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/willem)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/8 "2008-10-14T05:02:21Z")
> [@Impenitent](#):
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> exactly…
I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near you if you really believe that. 😕
> [@](#):
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> (and quit calling me shirley)
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> -Imp
What is it darling, don’t you want people to know about you and me? Puh ! 
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### Author:  [@Impenitent](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Impenitent)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/9 "2008-10-14T06:56:03Z")
> [@willem](#):
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> > [@Impenitent](#):
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> > exactly…
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> I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near you if you really believe that. 😕
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> > [@](#):
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> > (and quit calling me shirley)
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> > -Imp
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> What is it darling, don’t you want people to know about you and me? Puh ! 
Have you never seen airplane?
[youtube.com/watch?v=midrADL\_kHI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=midrADL_kHI)
-Imp
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### Author:  [@willem](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/willem)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/10 "2008-10-14T08:00:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> Have you never seen airplane?
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> [youtube.com/watch?v=midrADL\_kHI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=midrADL_kHI)
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> -Imp
Ah, no. I’m afraid I’m quite barbaric when it comes to knowledge of popular culture. 😛
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### Author:  [@someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someoneisatthedoor)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/11 "2008-10-14T15:29:05Z")
Airplane is hilarious. It’s a particular kind of humour that the Americans probably do better than anyone else.
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### Author:  [@Kriswest](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Kriswest)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/12 "2008-10-14T17:25:59Z")
Yes, but, it is the child of British dry humor and wit. Bitish humor gave us alot.
Monty Python humor hands down beats Airplane humor even though both are hilarious.
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/13 "2008-10-14T17:40:46Z")
Oh yeah, that Monty Python. Who else could do a ten minute routine in a cheese shop that has only one kind of cheese? I must admit that I didn’t know the joke until the second (of about three hundred) requests for a particular variety of cheese. Only Monty Python can make you want to stab yourself in the forehead with a screwdriver while weakly smiling.
Who else thinks the mere word “shrubbery” is funny?
Oh, and the guy who pays for complaints and mistakenly gets verbal abuse? A laugh riot. Never see that stuff coming.
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### Author:  [@Kriswest](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Kriswest)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/14 "2008-10-14T17:49:24Z")
And now the Larch, 😆
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/15 "2008-10-14T17:51:16Z")
Yeah, my sides are splitting. Could be that screwdriver.
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### Author:  [@someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someoneisatthedoor)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/16 "2008-10-14T17:52:27Z")
How I’ve missed Faust’s diatribes against anything daring to find Monty Python funny…
😃
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/17 "2008-10-14T17:57:54Z")
I tried. I watched. Many times.
The laugh tracks don’t even match. Even the post-production people didn’t get it.
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### Author:  [@someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someoneisatthedoor)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/18 "2008-10-14T18:08:08Z")
> [@faust](#):
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> I tried. I watched. Many times.
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> The laugh tracks don’t even match. Even the post-production people didn’t get it.
I know you have my friend, I know you have. And I have no problem with you disliking Python.
Do you like Fawlty Towers? And what do you make of Ricky Gervais? I’m just curious, I have a lot of passion for my country’s comic traditions, though I’ve learnt not to take offence when jonny foreigners beg to differ.
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### Author:  [@Faust](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Faust)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/19 "2008-10-14T18:17:46Z")
Fawlty Towers - no. I may have brought this up before, The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin - Leonard Rossiter. Very funny guy. That and Keeping up Appearances. That chick. And anything by Sacha Cohen.
That’s the whole list of funny Brits.
But Cohen is one of the funniest guys in the world.
I’ve seen Rossiter in other things, and he’s always funny.
Can’t think of anyone else.
Not sure who Gervais is. have heard of him. I’ll google it up.
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### Author:  [@Wonderer](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Wonderer)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-should-one-be-generous/22652/20 "2008-10-14T18:39:27Z")
People should be generous because people want other people to be generous to them…
If you wanted to be not generous then you should not expect to recieve generosity from others…
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