Just don’t think about all the suffering you or I could ease with the money we spend on a “good time.”

We’re not the good guys. We rationalize the inescapable selfishness placed there by ages of evolution.

Some of the proceeds spent on having a good time will go towards reducing misery and suffering elsewhere.

I see no malice in the decision to make peace with the fact that no mere mortal is capable of putting a dent into the level of suffering around the world as a whole.

Living one’s life reasonably and not being a burden is remarkably beneficial to society. At the very least, it’s one less unhappy and broke individual.

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