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Re:Why Am I So Lazy? by vermilingua on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:15AM (#16091320)
No, but "being lazy" is an action, which can be stopped. It's much harder to stop being lazy if you are being told it's a facet of your identity.
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Re:Why Am I So Lazy? by Zak on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:35AM (#16091388)
Lazy, here, is a state. It could be understood as a temporary state like being asleep or being hungry, or a facet of one's identity.

"Stop slacking" might be better; it unambiguously refers to current behavior that a person can change immediately.

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Re:Why Am I So Lazy? by betenoire on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:07PM (#16092381)
I thought that maybe another language would have a word for this, and I found

https://spanishto-english.com/spanish-dictionary/haraganear

It calls "being lazy" an intransitive verb

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Re:Why Am I So Lazy? by thomastjeffery on Sunday January 07, 2018 @01:49PM (#16092004)
Lazy is an attribute.

"Being lazy" is a transient state.

That's the important distinction here.

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