human
How would you define a good woman?
gpt
Precisely as I would define a good man,
human
Oh, I think we ask more of the woman,
gpt
We do indeed!
human
One may find people with a fussy conscience, a nervous fear of wrong-doing, who are without intelligence and imagination, but you never meet the noblest, and serenest, and largest examples of goodness without these attributes,
gpt
This is not the current view of goodness in women,
human
Naturally. The less intelligence and imagination the better, if our current morality is to hold its own. We want our women to accept its dogmas without question. We tell them how to be good, and if they don't choose to be good in that way, we call them bad. Nothing could be simpler.
gpt
I believe, said Hadria,
human
Oh, they will never do that, exclaimed Valeria, laughing and shaking her head.
gpt
What madness!
human
Why not? The thing is so obvious. They are like the two sides of a piece of embroidery: one all smooth and fair, the other rough and ugly, showing the tag ends and the fastenings. But since the embroidery is insisted on, I can't see that it is of any moral consequence on which side of the canvas one happens to be.
gpt
It is chiefly a matter of luck,