putting cruelty first in our list of things to avoid seems like a really good idea. Unfortunately, there’s a hefty price to pay: because there is so much cruelty all around us, thinking of it as humanity’s worst vice takes a heavy toll on our psyches. “If cruelty horrifies us,” Shklar writes, “we must, given the facts of daily life, always be in a state of outrage.”
How might Aristotle's practical wisdom guide us here? (About how to moderate our own responses to cruelty…)
