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I believe that human beings have a fundamental right to waste their lives on completely meaningless pursuits. It's what separates us from the animals. Your pos
by rms 19y ago
I believe that human beings have a fundamental right to waste their lives on completely meaningless pursuits. It's what separates us from the animals.
Your post made a very aggressive move by defining "contributes little back to humanity" as immoral. It's not a bad definition, but it's very different from the common definition.
- xlnt 19y agoi certainly didn't define morality by contributions to humanity. as you can see in the other comments, i specifically denied that one owes anything to humanity. rather, i said morality is about having and using knowledge of how to live well, and having good values, and that the primary result is to benefit yourself. i certainly think people have a right to waste their lives. i will not stop them, forcibly. but i will verbally criticize that decision.