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Re:The Largest Greek Manuscript? by coldtea on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:00PM (#37922192)
For many of us it's not about some cost/benefit analysis, but passion and curiosity.
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Re:The Largest Greek Manuscript? by sbjs on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:33PM (#37922497)
That's still following an objective perceived benefit: quenching a passion and satisfying curiosity.
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Re:The Largest Greek Manuscript? by coldtea on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:37AM (#37925854)
It's following a passion, but hardly an "objectively perceived benefit".

Except in the sense that everything is a benefit (including shooting heroin, where the benefit is the high, and so on) where the term becomes meaningless. But even so, it still wouldn't be "objectively perceived". More like "subjectively pursued and felt".

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Re:The Largest Greek Manuscript? by sbjs on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:27PM (#37945788)
> where the term becomes meaningless

Sure, you're welcome to just stop examining thoughts at the surface level and not dig deeper. Other people here seem content with that. I'm not.

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