Most people today can list what they like—photography, gardening, basketball—but cannot honestly say they do any of it. Liking has become a stand-in for doing, and the gap between preference and practice is where personhood dies. Aristotle already knew that character is built through action, not affinity, yet we now curate identities through consumption alone.
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