One Stands to Lose Everything
Sunday August 16, 2009
There are games in which what one loses, if one loses, is completely disproportionate to what one wins, if one wins. One stands to lose everything. Is it not the intrinsic glory of bravado that accounts for the fact that we feel a kind of indifference and even disdain for someone who has never lied, never cheated on a lover, never duped or taken advantage of a friend, never got drunk, never thrown away a fistful of hard~earned money, never played the fool by loving someone who was only toying with him or her?
~Alphonso Lingis
“The Religion of Animals” ~ Dangerous Emotions ~ Berkeley : U of California P, 2000 ~ pgs 60-1
