tuesday post

If we find pleasure in something, regardless of whether in the long term it affects us, isn't pursuing that pleasure rational? We create our rationalities and irrationalities. It's another f***ing contradiction. Dostoyevsky asks why humans pick up the cigarette or eat poorly, if we know it hurts us in the long term, and that it makes no logical sense to. My response is that rationality is determined by the individual. What makes things right or wrong is determined by the eyes of the individual, not by what others tell us. If im ensured to feel an incredible amount of pleasure by eating three boxes of pizza one night, regardless of whether it will hurt me long term, doesn't that make it rational? Whatever I choose to do then becomes rational, because I chose to do it. Others can look through the window and say that it's irrational. But f*** em, it's rational to me, and that's what matters, that's the almighty 'advantage' that he speaks about. We have not only the freedom to choose what we want to do, but we can decide to ourselves that that action is in fact rational to ourselves.