That's also risky for the reason stated above, though not as risky as pure pleasure. — Agustino
That must be quite a terrible existence then for you, because pleasure is quite a fickle mistress, often attended by a harem of pain. Terrible uncertainty shall follow you at every step, and a deep seated animalistic fear for the day when pleasure will become impossible - and it always does sooner or later with age, disease, etc. All who have made pleasure their mistress have been left destitute, with everything taken away from them — Agustino
So what would you do if you were left paralysed and deaf (I pick deaf because I know you like music) due to, for example, an accident or illness?I'm very easily entertained. — Terrapin Station
That sounds quite tragic to me :PAnd if I got a disease, or had an accident, which posed a great enough obstacle, such that I'd rather not live at all, then I could do something about that, except in exceptional circumstances, but that'd just be a terribly unfortunate happenstance. — Sapientia
So what would you do if you were left paralysed and deaf (I pick deaf because I know you like music) due to, for example, an accident or illness? — Agustino
Do you honestly think that would be true?I'd be easily entertained by visual things. — Terrapin Station
Yes. I'm kind of an "irrational optimist" and I'm seriously very easily entertained. — Terrapin Station
Well to me, the value that holds most power in your life is the value that you're unwilling to sacrifice for anything else. So since you're willing to sacrifice enjoyment for some things, then I think enjoyment isn't your fundamental value, the one that holds most power in your life. Maybe your value actually is something else - like integrity.Yes, biggest amongst other values, not at any cost. Otherwise if I'd have said something like "Knowledge", someone could have come back with, "But what if you were miserable?". — Sapientia
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