HungryTurtle comments on Rationally Irrational - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: HungryTurtle 07 March 2012 07:21PM

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Comment author: HungryTurtle 06 April 2012 05:31:36PM 0 points [-]

Social goals and nonsocial goals are only rarely at odds with one another

hahah than why is smoking cool for many people? Why is binge drinking a sign of status in American colleges? Why do we pull all nighters and damage our health for the pursuit of the perfect paper, party, or performance.

Social goals are a large portion of the time at odds with individual health goals.

Comment author: faul_sname 06 April 2012 08:05:43PM 0 points [-]

I'm probably generalizing too much from my own experience, which is social pressure to get educated and practice other forms of self-improvement. I've never actually seen anyone who considers binge drinking a good thing, so I had just assumed that was the media blowing a few isolated cases out of proportion. I could easily be wrong though.