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		<title>Life is Beautiful: A Letter to a Drunk Mind</title>
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&#8220;Settling an Argument&#8221; by Norman Rockwell
A few weeks ago, I wrote:
Last night, I was on the campus of the Université de Montréal (UDM) and met a student, obviously bright yet heavily intoxicated, who repeatedly declared that &#8220;la vie c&#8217;est d&#8217;la marde (life is shit)&#8221;. I listened as he repeatedly stated this claim, along with supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberalism and Primitivism: Choice, or the natural and primitive life?</title>
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I tend to believe that philosophical differences boil down to differences in terms of values, of which none is better than the other since they are essentially assumptions about the nature of our world. The conflict between primitivism and liberalism serves as a fine example:
When I speak as a liberal, one of the most wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we suffer?</title>
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It seems quite clear to me that humans are not designed for &#8220;happiness&#8221;. There are many aspects of how our mind functions that seem to suggest that the priority in our &#8220;design&#8221; was focused on something other than happiness, certainly other than happiness per day lived.
Sometimes there&#8217;s a clear, long-term use for our suffering. When [...]]]></description>
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