"A good life for Mill,. . . is not one where you have queued before the slot machine of utility and got the candy it dispenses. It is one where you have gone out into the world to build the best self you can -- traveled where you wanted and seen what you could and said what you had to, sung your own songs and heard your own poems. [A] theory of free conduct justified by its good results. . . open to all the pleasures of life and generous in their enjoyment."
** Been involved in too many other things for a while now to spend much time reading FFL except to check in on occasion and read a full page of posts without comment. Whether it's remarkable or not, I don't know, but FFL (IME) reads the same regardless of the season or the topic. The people I generally seem to agree with continue to say agreeable things and the folks I rarely seem agree with (including some new posters) continue to write things that I not only don't agree with but oftentimes write them in disagreeable and offensive ways. Apparently we've all been building the best "selfs" we could under the conditions in which we've found ourselves. Right now I'm heading to http://www.buildstrust.com/images/moonstone%20beach,%20california.jpg for some more character building in the big washing machine. Marek
