[Suzerain of Sheol]

I read the piece, read your thoughts, Xun, and have since been getting increasingly baffled and frustrated that I can think of almost nothing to say. This is a weighty topic, but I'm mostly drawing a blank for some reason.

The best I can come up with right now is something vaguely along the lines of a distinction between an egocentric view of the self and the other, and an exoteric view, but that would really be more of a sliding scale than a distinction... It's a question of motivation, I suppose, but the evaluation of that motivation has to be internally honest -- is the idea fundamentally self-serving or is it the product of higher-cognitive sympathetic and empathetic thought?

I don't know. That doesn't sound right to me, everything is ego-driven at the core, it's more a question of how much. Where does that leave us philosophically? I have no idea....

...that was me saying almost nothing. <_<