What page is the quote human beings can be awful cruel to one another?

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (chapter 33).

What does Huck see when he realizes that humans can be cruel to one another?

You might think, after spending a whole book helping a runaway slave named Jim find his way up North, Huck might be reflecting on the cruelty of slavery at this point. You’d be wrong. Huck sees two con men—the King and the Duke—being tarred and feathered by some villagers.

How was Huck feeling about the Duke and King when he said human beings can be awful cruel to one another?

Huck feels bad for the two, and his ill feelings toward them melt away. “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another,” he observes. Huck concludes that a conscience is useless because it makes you feel bad no matter what you do. Tom agrees.

Who said that is just the way with some people they get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it?

This line is from the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), written by Mark Twain.

Who is compassionate to the cruel will become cruel to the Merciful?

Our sages stated, regarding the severity of punishment, that he who is merciful to the cruel will become cruel to the merciful, and Maimonides adds that mercy to criminals is cruelty to all creatures.

What did Hume say about the combat of passion and reason?

Hume famously sets himself in opposition to most moral philosophers, ancient and modern, who talk of the combat of passion and reason, and who urge human beings to regulate their actions by reason and to grant it dominion over their contrary passions.

When does the will exert itself according to Hume?

The will, Hume claims, is an immediate effect of pain or pleasure (T 2.3.1.2) and “exerts itself” when either pleasure or the absence of pain can be attained by any action of the mind or body (T 2.3.9.7).

Can a court be compassionate to the cruel?

In the examples cited below, the general public is liable to suffer as a result of the court’s forgiving attitude towards serious crimes and, therefore, the courts must not act compassionately towards one unworthy of such treatment.