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False dichotomy. Spending time with ones family IS an accomplishment. Climbing a hill IS an accomplishment. Both pleasurable activities, to my mind. The choic
by hobbes 13y ago
False dichotomy.
Spending time with ones family IS an accomplishment. Climbing a hill IS an accomplishment. Both pleasurable activities, to my mind.
The choice is between which accomplishments give you pleasure, not between accomplishments and pleasure.
- circlefavshape 13y agoThis is just being silly. Spending time with your family is not an "accomplishment" in the commonly-understood sense of the word.
- hobbes 13y agoIf spending time with ones family is part of what it means to be a family, and when time/work pressures make it difficult to do so, I would say "accomplishment" is more than appropriate.
- binarnosp 13y agoRaising an happy and healthy child is an accomplishment, and both parents need to be involved. Giving happiness to your family is an accomplishment, a much bigger one than "imagining" (because, lets get real, this is just a nice dream) futuristic trains travelling in a vacuum pipeline. You don't have a family? Ok, spend all your time imagining nice stuff and give press releases about your imaginary stuff, but don't call it job, call it hobby. Are you still calling it a job? Then you shouldn't be spending so much time on it.
- CmonDev 13y agoI am not an EM fan, but Tesla Motors, SpaceX and PayPal are not imaginary and all more important than a thousand of happy healthy kids.
- CmonDev 13y agoI meant more like accomplishing something that has not been done successfully before by someone else. Like starting a new kind of business. Climbing a hill on Mars would certainly be an accomplishment. Spending time with a family of first genetically-enhanced children would be an accomplishment as well.
- chunkyslink 13y agoI would argue that raising a happy/healthy/balanced child is an accomplishment. Its been done by many before me, but it is by no means easy.