"Kant famously articulated the principle that a rational being should never be used as merely an unconsenting means to an end, even the end of benefiting others."
sanguine Meaning "cheerful, hopeful, confident" first attested 1509, since these qualities were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood as one of the four humors.
"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless
implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and
the critical mind - I would be the first patient."
Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005)
scrumping The act of stealing apples from a cider orchard.
Kind of silly when you think that our alleged original sin was merely an act of scrumping.
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