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It will enslave you and make you miserable. We search for comfort but those that work for it become happier in the end than those that received it out of luck. Humans are by nature problem solvers and need goals and something to be proud of accomplishing. It's in our DNA.
Toss-up between Boojum and dude_Jones. The latter doesn't tend to post stuff like this unless it's to counter someone else though, so... Boojum?
Or Shinobi??? Maybe not cryptic/indirect enough to be Shinobi. And Shinob' is more usually economical with his word count.
I disagree. The desire for comfort is a basic human motivation. Look at Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs and they’re all based on comfort. I think you’re confusing comfort with complacency. When you’re satisfied with yourself and don’t have any ambition, that’s when you sink into complacency.
I would argue comfort often causes not only complacency but even weakness. You are right people do naturally search for comfort even to an unhealthy level. For example in first world countries where people are more comfortable with their air-conditioned houses they tend to be bothered by the discomforts that those in third world countries dont care about. For example no one that grew up in a poor village, working in a garden in 100 degree weather, and walking 3 miles a day for water cares about being misgendered. In the US the poor hispanic immigrants often do not complain as much about these things as the upper middle class college students do. When you give the impoverished hispanics comfort by giving them citizenship they become happier than most of the ones that had a comfortable privileged life the whole time. They are happier with their air conditioning and plumbing than the Americans.
Rome used this philosophy when recruiting for their military. They knew how important morale was. If you look at their military they purposefully recruited more farmers than city men. And if you were from a city you had to do harder training to get qualified to be a soldier. This is because city people grew up with comforting luxuries and the farmers grew up in poverty and hungry without those comforts. Those comforts weaken you.
PHILOSOPHICAL SHITPOST #1:
If you take two people who both have a net worth of 5 million dollars. But one was born into it and did not have to work for it and the other one was born into poverty and worked very hard for it. Who would likely be happier with their 5 million dollars? And I believe it to be fair to assume their outlooks on the world would be completely different.