QUOTE(FourThirteen @ Jun 25 2011, 10:28)

The whole notion of living without love or pride is absurd as well. If said person was smart, they'd realize what a shit life that would be to live and thus not live that way. Again, we come back to the notion of thinking things through first. This is what smart people do.
No matter how smart a person is, to choose between life with no love and pride and life with love and pride, one has to experience both in their life to even comprehend the choice exists and see the difference. Such experience is not given to everyone, and mere words do not teach it.