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Re:A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived by birdyrooster on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:14PM (#35562852)
What a strange inversion of reasoning. *

Hedonism is an example of society being so capable of providing that it has largess. Any society without hedonists would be cautionary. Hedonists test the limits of what society has achieved on behalf of the individual and is in my belief the entire point of society.

Society should elevate the individual be it hedonism or otherwise.

* this is a quote and I am being a bit facetious here, I agree with other commenters that it’s impossible to draw a line on this balance

Re:A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived by AussieWog93 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:52PM (#35563245)
You could make the exact same argument about people with clinical psychopathy, and it would be just as valid.
Re:A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived by birdyrooster on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:59PM (#35563312)
Well said, yes it’s very much relative to other humans around.
Re:A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived by goodpoint on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:13PM (#35563936)
That largess is very much not equally distributed.