Tuesday, December 19, 2023

On the Last Vice

 I'm fairly sure booze is profane and you shouldn't drink. On the other hand I'm a religious zealot and we're known for being weird about this stuff. 

 Anyway, you can't get rid of your last vice. Everyone needs one. Trying to rip out your last vice will do more damage than keeping it. Victimless crimes like moderate drinking simply aren't important in the grand scheme. Focus on building yourself elsewhere rather than trying to be perfectly pure or perfectly obedient. In many cases trying to be pure or obedient is worse than e.g. profane booze, so...

 For example, don't stop drinking if your other vice is reading the newspaper.

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