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There's a million of these! You know, uh, If you're a healthy adult then you can find satisfaction on your own, you know, you can enjoy solitary pleasures, you don't need Facebook validation for good or interesting things that happen to you, while yet, at the same time, "Happiness is best when shared with others." Right? So, reconcile.
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Well, I think
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Or, you know, modulo the recent economic downturn, America is an incredibly prosperous nation that has been extremely successful at providing the necessary food, products, and shelter to make its citizens happy, but the ethics that have served as the engine of this prosperity also work to promulgate an extreme materialism in its population that contributes exactly zero to its peoples' net happiness. You know, are these two outcomes necessarily intertwined?
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In this case
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Or, "Your head makes a terrible home", right? Nothing is guaranteed to drain the color out of your world and make you unhappy more quickly than living in your head and analyzing and considering and hashing and rehashing everything that has happened to you in the past and could happen to you in the future. "Live in the moment", the concept of Buddhist No-Mind, the satisfaction of throwing caution to the wind. Yet, conversely, we've only got one life right? You don't want to throw caution to the wind and blast yourself all over a half mile of highway doing 100 miles an hour. You don't want to Live in the Moment your way to a baby when you're 15. And besides, don't we have some kind of divine or ethical obligation to use our minds and reason to promote the happiness and deep metaphysical satisfaction of ourselves and others?
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The answer to all of these is just "Balance", right?
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Actually, there is no answer because THESE WERE ALL INTENDED TO BE RHETORICAL. Ass.