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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
Again, I think you're wrong here. I don't write short stories for acceptance - at all.
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Not even a little bit? I mean, I might have been wrong to suggest that acceptance is the chief reason you choose to write, but it seems a little silly to me that you think acceptance is not even a slight contributor to why you choose to write. But I mean, whatever... how am I to know?
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
But I do think I am of the philosophy, like the French for example, that believe you should work less and enjoy life more. I consider the need for superfluous possessions pretty superficial - and the person who needs those things to be happy pretty shallow.
I do think people who work themselves to death in order to buy the nice car and the pimp ass clothing to be mistaken in their ambitions.
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While I understand what you're saying and generally feel the same way myself, I think you have to be careful with statements like this. It's very easy to come across as a pompous, know-it-all prick to people who disagree with you. I don't, in any absolute sense, find anything wrong with someone who works their ass off so they can buy themselves a Ferrari. If that's what they want to do with their life, I say more power to them.
If I may try to speak for you for a moment, perhaps a better way of conveying idea you're trying to get across in the above quote is to say that: it's sad when people think that, in order to be accepted, they must work hard and buy nice stuff even if doing so goes against their instinct. To me, that is certainly not the case and anyone who thinks it is isn't doing humanity any favors in my view.
Also, fuck the French.