It's common to advise young people that Working hard and grinding when you are young, then having relatively calm and relaxation life for the rest of the life.
I think the relaxation never comes, if you work to death right now then still there is a pretty good chance you would be doing same 10 years from now. I believe ther should be balance between work and life no matter what age.
"Natural" means healthy
That "growth" is inherently a good thing to do and if you aren't trying to grow as a person everyday then you're not living 'correctly'
That attention span exists as a relevant concept and that people are ruining it with technology.
If our attentiveness is struggling it is undoubtedly because life is harder and crueler these days.
Our attention, if we are being treated humanely and sustainability by the societal conditions around us, is fine (we aren't though, this being the issue).
edit Same thing with all the "kids these days" things about kids not being able to focus, being a kid these days has got to feel hopeless in a million ways that are too crushing to focus on not the least of which are the adults around you condescending your fears of the future even as they destroy it.
I think lots of people believe that the ends can justify the means.
But to me, that expression means the same thing as, "Whatever causes a good outcome must not be bad." And I not only disagree with it, I don't even think it makes sense.
I heard a story about a guy who was stabbed in a mugging and during surgery for the stabbing, found out that he had cancer, which saved his life.
But nobody is going to go to the judge during the mugger's trial, and say that his decision to stab the guy was "justified," and so he should be released to stab again with his completely justified stabbing history.
No, the things that are justifiable are those which are good and informed actions. You can't justify bad or ignorant actions simply because of luck.
Cynicism isn't inherently more mature than believing that things can be made better. For a lot of people "everything is fucked, nothing matters" is a way of absolving themselves from the responsibility and personal risk involved in actively trying to make the world a better place.
Pick literally any religion.
Pick literally any belief.
That.
God.
That a god exists.
I disagree with the belief that all police officers are automatically bad people
That there is a correct way to live or that objective morality exists
That the cereal should be poured before the milk.
That a hot dog is not a taco
People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.
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