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With that mentality, If you think hard, almost everything we do apart from food and shelter can be considered 'superflous'. -- Watching movies? Waste of time

With that mentality, If you think hard, almost everything we do apart from food and shelter can be considered 'superflous'. -- Watching movies? Waste of time -- Playing Video Games - Rotting your brain -- Watching sports for fun - wasting your money / promoting violence -- Traveling for fun - you are destroying the environment -- Any entertainment shows - promoting bad habits etc.. etc.. You can extrapolate 'what I don't like, must be bad for humanity' to almost every product of leisure activity out there. At some point, for some, unless you are living like an Amish or in some kind of 'Puritan' way, everything else you are doing is bad and you are a bad person, and that platform that enables it (Radio, TV, Online Apps, Arbnb, Uber) must be bad and needs to be abolished.

akomtu 3y ago
These activities are examples of self gratification, they don't give anything to others and are bad for this reason. Imagine a group of cells in your body engaging in this behavior: they grab energy from others, spend it on rattling their mitochondrias, and give nothing back. Imagine if most cells in your body were like that.
coldtea 3y ago
>With that mentality, If you think hard, almost everything we do apart from food and shelter can be considered 'superflous'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope In any case, a lot of those can indeed be considered bad. Like professional sports. Participatory sports on the other hand, foster community, improve health, and entertain, all in one. Watching movies, or the general category, art, nourishes the soul, allows us to live vicariously other people's perspectives, and builds culture. Watching crap movies, made for profit, who turn their audience stupid (or pressupose their stupidity), on the other hand, can be considered bad. The same can be said of spending hours every day watching TV.

akomtu 3y ago

These activities are examples of self gratification, they don't give anything to others and are bad for this reason. Imagine a group of cells in your body engaging in this behavior: they grab energy from others, spend it on rattling their mitochondrias, and give nothing back. Imagine if most cells in your body were like that.

coldtea 3y ago

>With that mentality, If you think hard, almost everything we do apart from food and shelter can be considered 'superflous'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope In any case, a lot of those can indeed be considered bad. Like professional sports. Participatory sports on the other hand, foster community, improve health, and entertain, all in one. Watching movies, or the general category, art, nourishes the soul, allows us to live vicariously other people's perspectives, and builds culture. Watching crap movies, made for profit, who turn their audience stupid (or pressupose their stupidity), on the other hand, can be considered bad. The same can be said of spending hours every day watching TV.