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How does the word 'unhealthy' apply here? How many people spend several hours a day watching TV shows? Or pinning 'new' butterflies to a board. Or 'obsessively'
by 8bitsrule 8y ago
How does the word 'unhealthy' apply here? How many people spend several hours a day watching TV shows? Or pinning 'new' butterflies to a board. Or 'obsessively' drawing cartoons?
Many people have limited options in life. I grew up in a small northern town with very limited options. I collected stamps all winter. Was that 'unhealthy'? Because I learned some world history, did that 'redeem' it from 'unhealthiness'?
As soon as I got to college, the stamp-collecting ended. HOWEVER... I also learned -organization of large amounts of random information-. Guess where that led (hint: it wasn't 'unhealthy')
- kizer 8y agoI was using the word in a metaphorical sense. Also, you mentioned positive activities. I was referring to passive activities which can become “unhealthy” in the sense that the formed habits, which can in the extreme interfere with life, outweigh the information gleaned.