ah i see, thanks
of course, but i think when people make such statements, e.g. 'getting drunk is bad', they are implicitly invoking ceteris paribusI really can't find a correlation between lushes/drunks and people whom I value. I have a lot of friends that fit in both categories; there are also a lot of people who never touch a drink and I think are annoying as all hell.
i agree that it is far more important to look at the intention/motivation rather than the behaviour.... but there are some behaviours (admittedly not ones such as getting drunk, but for example killing someone) that are ultimately "bad" regardless of the intention/motivation... and of course by labelling the behaviour as 'bad' you are not necessarily judging the person who has committed that behaviourTo me, it sort of depends on the person's motives for drinking. People's motives are sort of what differentiates them to me; not the manifestations of their motives-e.g., drinking or lots of casual sex. I see no such thing as a "wrong" manifestation.
Also, generally speaking, I think that when people label external behaviors or processes as "good" or "bad," it's incredibly contrived and simplistic. Assigning normative values to labels are only good to me insofar as they serve as a shorthand to describe a common motive or as a "rule of thumb." I prefer not to use them, however, because people really do fall victim to categorizing things or people in this black and white way.
And I'm going to be cynical here, but I really think that when people point to things and say "X is bad" it has the side effect (if not, intended purpose) of letting them rationalize their moral uprightness to themselves. Don't you think everyone's self-perception would be really positive (and smug) if they went around defining arbitrary things, such as eating pasta, as evil? Then they could just go out and kill someone and rationalize it by saying "well, I don't eat pasta, so I'm a good person."
I'm a total lush.
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the dude in your avatar really needs to have a basketball placed in his hands.
He's not happy because he can't do his job without the basketball
He's in such anguish, with no basketball.
Posts I wrote in the past contain less nuance.
If you're in this forum to learn something, be careful. Lots of misplaced toxicity.
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~a certain mysterious power that may prove terribly fascinating to the extraverted man, for it touches his unconscious.