(January 4, 2011 at 6:28 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Yes but Saerules, why are any of those other things you list, good?
The calming effect of deep breathing can be the change between a stable member of society and
That is good, as I see it. Those things are all made good because they can reduce stress levels in people, and in doing so are less people driven to desperation, despair, and depression. That means fewer crimes, a more stable and controlled populace, and a more competent and ambitious people.
I'd call them largely good for that reason. If ritual sacrifice or bloodletting or the like has the same effect in some incarnations, it would be good for the same reason. Even a brainwashing level of religiosity can be a good thing if it is reducing stress upon the vast majority of the people.
Good and bad are not independent of each other, but all of the things Summer listed are so much more good than they are bad that I think we can largely ignore the possible bad points of finding such things calming (ie: the possibility of drowning while taking a bath).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
