Nietzsche: Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples and ask yourselves whether a tree that is supposed to grow to a proud height can dispense with bad weather and storms.

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This is arguing “no pain, no gain”?

I understand it as we wouldn't know good without bad, but I'm tapping out.

I can have a sense of bad from reading a story or watching a movie. I can simulate it.

But can you grok it?

Yes.

I trust Alain De Botton can grok any text he reads perhaps better than the authors themselves. It’s the processor, not the simulation.

If you love him so much, why don't you marry him? 😜

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