But by their very nature, ethical principles are something we strive to live by.Īnd yet, resilience is often discussed as something a person either has or doesn’t have, and we still judge people who lack it.
I didn’t mean for any of them to be judgy.
Maybe that is why I included resilience in my list of ethical principles. We pity people who give up, either in spirit or by suicide. There is something very deep in us that considers survival not just a right, but a duty.