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Good to know we shouldn't have pleasure so long as there is any man who can't share in it.

[EDIT] single father/middle class technocrat here, living paycheck to paycheck. Many of my friends make less than I do. By this measure of hubris, I should not go out to eat so long as fellow engineers are looking for work.




As anyone who has had my comments inflicted on them long enough can tell you, if I had meant to point out that people shouldn't enjoy living out of a van (if that's there thing), I would have made that point, repeatedly, in painful detail. That's not what I was saying.


Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you said people shouldn't enjoy living out of a van.

I meant to draw attention to you writing that living in a van was an insincere (glib) and unrealistic (romantic) undertaking.


>Good to know we shouldn't have pleasure so long as there is any man who can't share in it.

Sounds as a very good, if difficult to attain, guideline for the improvement of society.

And very close to the original message of Christianity too (I'm talking milleniums ago).




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