The message is nice, but “being nice” is straight up not a good way to achieve immortality. The people you’ve affected will remember you but one generation out and you’re forgotten. And that assumes people ruminate on the kind acts they’ve experienced a lot.
The people we remember are mostly remembered for doing grand things. Maybe that’s not a convenient truth, but it is true.
The message is nice, but “being nice” is straight up not a good way to achieve immortality. The people you’ve affected will remember you but one generation out and you’re forgotten. And that assumes people ruminate on the kind acts they’ve experienced a lot.
The people we remember are mostly remembered for doing grand things. Maybe that’s not a convenient truth, but it is true.
True… but also, turning an enemy into an ally is a very powerful strategy (and it works in reverse too).
Yeah, you have to burn a library or something.