• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I do want the Wall-E chairs, but I would never actually accept them. It’s like how I want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo, but I would never accept and eat one.

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      17 hours ago

      Are you sure you’re not confusing what a want is with something that you don’t want?

      For example you actually don’t want a wall-e chair because you would never actually accept one. Similarly, you don’t actually want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo because, again, you would never accept it.

      A want is something you’d actually like to have so if you wouldn’t accept it that sounds like something you don’t want to have…

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        17 hours ago

        I want a world where I can use those things without doing irreparable damage to my body and mind. I can fantasize about them when divorced from the practicalities.

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          17 hours ago

          Even if we removed the health effects…sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce is being irreparably damaged in body and mind

          You can also just do that already by staring at your phone all day and eating processed food

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            7 hours ago

            sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce

            This is an unfair and libelous depiction of my utopia where I sit in a Wall-E chair chugging Alfredo sauce with, I’ll thank you to remember, fettuccine noodles mixed in.