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Paul Graham Shares Insight Relating Pokemon Shinies and Conservation Laws (twitter.com/paulg)
3 points by ftxbro on May 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I do rather enjoy this definition.

> 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.




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