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Owl  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski: Would you sacrifice your core values for a more prosperous life?

Nah. My greatest hope is to live life with minimal suffering and to alleviate the suffering of others. I don't care for prosperity so much.

I don't know about meanings of life or all that, but this seems like time tested wisdom:

http://youtu.be/xERitvFYpAk

    While you live, shine

    Don't suffer anything at all;

    Life exists only a short while

    And time demands its toll.

I'd like to follow that kind of life.

As for your other questions, I do care about my family quite a bit, but I don't wanna go Walter White for my family. And for myself, well, above.

Legalities... Not really. I get guilty when I try to sell something to someone for, say, $100 when I paid only $3 for it.





ms626  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A bit off topic & "spoilery" but remember that Walter White admitted he did everything for himself, not his family. He never compromised his own core values of pride etc..

I think Walter White is actually an example of the above question inverted, he protected his family by pursuing his own core values at their expense.

Owl  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's an interesting way to take it. I am still thinking about Breaking Bad, what it meant, and what I took out of it, and I'll probably change my views on it, so I won't be able to follow that discussion up as well as I would want to. I think for the moment Breaking Bad is a show about a person who started with good intentions and then have them run amok, but as Oscar Wilde says:

    Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself

The way you see it is very interesting and is like what some people say when they say that Heisenberg was always Walter White and vice versa, from the very first episode. The inverted question of yours is also interesting to ponder over, as we all like to think our core values are right when that example shows that changing ones core values would have been better off for everyone. Interesting stuff indeed.