> Puritanism = default no on happiness. You can't be happy about something unless you can prove it's justifiable to be happy about it. It might be a good idea to switch to default yes: you can be happy about something unless you can prove it's unjustifiable to
Having to make the effort to justify & think about whether something is actually good seems like a helpful outlook, like a perspective people don't always need to apply, but should at least have in their back pocket, should be in heavy rotation.
> Puritanism = default no on happiness. You can't be happy about something unless you can prove it's justifiable to be happy about it. It might be a good idea to switch to default yes: you can be happy about something unless you can prove it's unjustifiable to
Having to make the effort to justify & think about whether something is actually good seems like a helpful outlook, like a perspective people don't always need to apply, but should at least have in their back pocket, should be in heavy rotation.