Tell that to my immune system.
You had no say in being born, but you have the ultimate say in how you're going to live.
Submitted 7 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Yes, because there are definitely more options than waste your years trapped in wage slavery. 🙄
FMT99@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tons. People just generally want to be safe and stable so they gravitate to those kinds of jobs.
shani66@ani.social 7 months ago
Are you suggesting bank robbery? Because it’s a fluke those guys got away with it.
Or did they get caught already? I haven’t kept up.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I do? So I can quit my shitty soul crushing job and everything will just be fine then?
FMT99@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Depends what you want. Do you want your income to be stable and predictable and not too low? Then that’s your best bet. More interesting usually comes with less stability or possibly less income to start.
exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Is a predictable income something people want or something they need?
You keep framing it as if people can just do photosynthesis and keep a house while they have no income
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I certainly enjoy not being homeless and would like to continue not being homeless. If I can actually buy some things that aren’t the absolute cheapest worst possible option as well that would also be good.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
To give OP a boon, my friend’s mother had a plaque with a saying along the lines of “I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to.”
I think that’s a good philosophy to approach your own life and the people you encounter.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I liked the quote until I started to think of the negative parameters of such a saying. It comes down to who is saying it < their intention.
“I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to.” - Ted Bundy
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
Well, to come back to your post they chose to live like that to a degree. I guess for themselves it was nice.
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m going to live like a billionaire… I am going to live like a billionaire.
Mate, you have so very little actual free-will. There’s still a debate if you even have free-will at all.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
Well, at least scientists have identified the hormone that is responsible for the “this was totally my own idea” feeling.
dog@suppo.fi 7 months ago
Sure you do buddy.
Euthanasia is totally legal and not shunned upon everywhere in the world.
exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Ehmm… No you don’t
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 months ago
[deleted]exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
When the consequences are homelessness, starvation, disease, imprisonment, etc… you really had no choice
Let’s stop pretending people could choose whatever they want in our society and still live a dignified life
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hmm. I don’t know about that. Maybe certain very rich people have more freedom regarding the way they can live. I just have to do 9-5, no questions asked.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And therefore have the right to end it whenever I feel like doing so.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
I mean there are lots of deadly poisonous plants, but legally killing yourself is hard as fuck.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This is me trying to explain the difference between “fault” and “responsibility”
Kolli@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Posting this quote here is pearls to a swine.
distantsounds@lemmy.world 7 months ago
is born female in Pakistan :??
Woozythebear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If I take a week off of work in America I will lose everything I own and be homeless and die…
Jumi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t that what freedom is all about? The choice of either slaving away or starving?