On a pulpit, perhaps in my white blazer, and in an alternate life, I will poke a finger at you and declare in my pastorial baritone voice: you take these little things for granted, repent! Invest what you can and be patient while God calculates his returns on your investments!"Many would fish, but few would bring bait," so Mr V., author of the corporate classic The Mafia Manager correctly observed.Many a people see the concept of 'baiting' only in a strict negative perspective bespeaking of deception and/or dishonest trickery, perhaps chiefly because more often than not the moody picture of a lovely fish strangled, caught on a hook and pulled out of the water by a gleeful fisherman is instantaneously brought to mind.
But that's for those who took Immanuel Kant to the extreme, much more serious than he took himself, as austere and unremitting as he was. That's not to denigrate, however, as much as to describe the man in a jokey aside.
For one thing I am a serious admirer, being a student of philosophy as I am.For those who aren't champions of animal rights (and even those who are but realize that describing a bad actor's behaviour…