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Re:Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard by module0000 on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:13PM (#15535476)
>> I'm betting in their final hour they didn't wish they were still at work, or got more hours in. Busting your ass working IS a waste of life. You can be passionate about your work, but don't be ridiculous. You're only here once.

Not everyone believes they are only here once, just to be devils advocate. Some of them believe they are commanded to "be joyful workers", or some paraphrase there of. There are a lot of people that work themselves to death, because they believe a divine entity commanded them to do so. Logical reasoning may be less than effective with this group of humans.

Re:Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard by jdbernard on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:39PM (#15536766)
> Logical reasoning may be less than effective with this group of humans.

Not sure the implied condescension is justified here. Some of history's great thinkers held that position. Different axioms lead logically to different conclusions. Dismissing differing views categorically as "illogical" isn't productive. Just to be devil's advocate.

Re:Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard by loa_in_ on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:34AM (#15540100)
In fact, once you assume you're incapable of having a coherent absolute viewpoint because you're a unit in a greater whole with an independent viewpoint of it's own and your infering abilities are limited by time and/or energy you essentially have to pick your own axioms and therefore you're certain you will arrive at different conclusions than someone else.