another one of those days

[godream]

One of the philosophers we read in class last year -- Hume, I want to say -- had as one of the principles of his ideas that humans share a basic empathy, that we all want to see each other do well, that (all else being equal) given the choice between an action that hurts someone and one that doesn't, people will invariably choose the latter, the kinder path.

I've got a counter-example to this concept living in my house. Lucky me.

(Unless, I guess, my brother's not human, which I've suspected for a long time.)