the_bowme

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   by the_bowme 6y ago

   Being adaptable doesn't tell you at all whether it is a good decision, or predict whether you should make it. At the limit no decision affects you at all and all decisions are indifferent.
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   by the_bowme 6y ago

   The comparison is between having a single working car that you pay someone to fix when it breaks vs. owning a car that you can fix by yourself by having lots of tools and parts around. The first is minimalist because it involves less physic
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   by the_bowme 6y ago

   So minimalism is just efficiency? Call it that then. And frivolity isn't a relevant category to minimalism. You could be minimalist in achieving frivolous ends. Clearly you're carrying too much in the term.
4. 4.▲
   by the_bowme 7y ago

   Yes, it is. Unless you have an explanation of why not without getting into no true Scotsman territory.
5. 5.▲
   by the_bowme 7y ago

   Seems like a clear disavowal of the list itself, although not of the concept of a canon altogether.
6. 6.▲
   by the_bowme 7y ago

   It was in the stoicism I studied in college, and stoics took it to be important to justify why their prescriptions were valid. But nowadays we don't need an argument, we can just point out that ancient people believed it and that'