April Precept: “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful” – Sappho. My thoughts on this precept are different because what is beautiful isn’t necessarily good. Sure, it’s beautiful or cool or whatever word you use, but that doesn’t make it good. An example to prove my point are fish, and pretty much everything else underwater. More specifically, rockfish. It’s an absurd example, and I don’t think everyone will see it in real life or on camera, but the author DID say “What is beautiful is good,” so I kinda have to criticise everything about it and post my opinion so yea. More to the point though, a rockfish may look pretty, but don’t touch one unless you wanna get poisoned, and that’s not good. And that’s just one of the examples I could give you. Now what I would do to fix this, I would simply rephrase the first part, but that’s just my opinion. As for the second part, I would agree with it a little more than the first part, mainly because many people that have been good to the world also became beautiful, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who is good is automatically beautiful. That being said, in due time, everyone will be beautiful. Except for the lazy people, they never accomplish anything. All in all, this precept needs to be changed, at least in my opinion, and while I don’t necessarily agree with this precept all that much, its still a good one, but I don’t see where or in what situation you can ever use its advice in your life, cause that’s what precepts are for, right? Something to live by, and I don’t see how you’re supposed to live by it, so in my opinion changing it will not only help it to be understood better, but it may also give it a meaning in life that you could follow. And those are my final words.
April Precept
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