Self-Gratification

[Scarlett]

What do you think of self-gratification as a lifestyle choice? ie- doing exactly what you like to do because it pleases you? Having a good time all the time? Focusing on what makes you happy? Or is it important to do some things that you don't enjoy, or that you do out of duty?

[joggerjayne]

Well, it's actually quite hard to warm to Kant.

His ideas on "enlightenment" are pretty cool. He sees it as being able to think for yourself without guidance from self appointed guardians ...

... like us now, with the EU !

He alsonsuggests that we actually LIKE to be guided ...

... which is just SO true ! ... god, it is SO true.

But (and this is why he's such a dick), he says that the steps towards thinking for ourselves are seen as difficult by some people ...

... "including the entire fair sex"

So, essentially, he was a bit of a knob.

[bednobs]

what a wang!

[joggerjayne]

yes

[Psybbo]

This post keeps me going back to this related post!
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question894231.html

[joggerjayne]

I'm not sure these "related posts" are such a good thing.

[ClaryS]

Mmmmm I was just thinking the same thing...about related posts that is....LOL!

[joggerjayne]

It's a bit much when you can't do a little killing kittens without it reappearing three years later.

Jeepers!

[Psybbo]

Sorry, jj, xx

[joggerjayne]

s'okay, Psy

:0)

x

[joggerjayne]

There's the bit in The Taming Of The Shrew, where Lucentio tells Tranio that he's pleased to be in Padua, because it gives him the chance to study philosophy and ethics.

Tranio says that they shouldn't become bogged down in moral studies. He says that there's nothing to be gained from things in which we take no pleasure. The line is ..

"No profit grows where is no pleasure taken"

So ...

Well, that's it, really.