• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Are you sure you’re not confusing what a want is with something that you don’t want?

    For example you actually don’t want a wall-e chair because you would never actually accept one. Similarly, you don’t actually want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo because, again, you would never accept it.

    A want is something you’d actually like to have so if you wouldn’t accept it that sounds like something you don’t want to have…

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      13 hours ago

      I want a world where I can use those things without doing irreparable damage to my body and mind. I can fantasize about them when divorced from the practicalities.

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        13 hours ago

        Even if we removed the health effects…sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce is being irreparably damaged in body and mind

        You can also just do that already by staring at your phone all day and eating processed food

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          3 hours ago

          sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce

          This is an unfair and libelous depiction of my utopia where I sit in a Wall-E chair chugging Alfredo sauce with, I’ll thank you to remember, fettuccine noodles mixed in.