@Russell. Are you a masochist ? On Sunday, 5 January 2025 at 00:20:50 UTC+2 Russell Standish wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 02:07:33PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > > > > > On 1/4/2025 10:27 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > > I just opened a topic a while back about the definition of the word > > > "useful" that you keep abusing. Let's remind you: > > > > > > Useful = whatever increases happiness. > > > Useless = whatever doesn't increase happiness. > > > > > > My philosophy, I guarantee you 100%, increases happiness, so is useful. > > > Getting cured of cancer might still let you depressed, so cancer cure > is > > > useless. > > > > An absurd conclusion implies an absurd argument. > > The premise that increasing happiness is the only goal for the human > race is absurd anyway. If Cosmin disappeared off this list, happiness > would increase for the vast majority of this list. Probably only > Cosmin would have less hapiness :). > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f2792649-179d-4809-b705-ac7e6d20d93en%40googlegroups.com.
