What is this punishment thing about anyway? God, why are we so ready to beat ourselves up instead of celebrate. Don’t deserve anything good, nope, gotta earn it, nothing’s free, nope, have to earn it by the sweat of your brow.
Allow me, if you will, to rant for just one second here.
I’ve heard all my life that you have to take the good with the bad. That you wouldn’t appreciate the good things in life if there were no bad things to compare them to.
All right.
People live in horrible circumstances, day after day. They are depressed, abused, starving, etc. etc.
Does anyone out there think that they stop appreciating how bad it is? Day after day?
I don’t!
So then, (and I do believe it’s possible) why can’t a person be happy, day after day? And appreciate it?
You have to take the good with the bad. You have to earn it. Give me a break.
Oh, by the way, do the robots think they could change the Personal Challenge from a punishment to a reward system? Robots?
Anyone?
And I would be glad to learn from any of the logicians out there who want to poke holes in my argument.
Cheers y’all.
