/lit/ - Literature

>>15168848
Just remember the man who had it all
>perfect upbringing
>no problems
>no struggle
>started reading plato at 3
>knew ancient greek and latin by age 8
>advanced calculus at 12
>doctoral thesis at 19
He had a perfect life. Perfect mind. Yet because he had no struggle, he produced garbage. Suffering, struggle and a lack of opportunity are what create characters. Life of ease is what creates NPCs.

>be me
>born 1806
>rich family
>had everything
>no struggle in life
>knew Latin and Ancient Greek fluently by age 8
>calculus by age 10
>early dissertation
>life of ease led to nothing but borimg utilitarian bugman thought and offered nothing original or valuable despite being in a much better position than everyone else
>mfw someone says ideas aren't a reflection of the person and his environment

Can we all agree that he is a pseud?

Utilitarianism is based. We all know the needs of white Europeans have more utility than those of brown people, so let's get that shit organised and work out how to maximise utility by giving white Europeans what they want

>In all propositions concerning numbers, a condition is implied, without which none of them would be true; and that condition is an assumption which may be false. The condition is, that 1=1; that all the numbers are numbers of the same or of equal units. Let this be doubtful, and not one of the propositions of arithmetic will hold true. How can we know that one pound and one pound make two pounds, if one of the pounds may be troy, and the other avoirdupois? They may not make two pounds of either, or of any weight. How can we know that a forty-horse power is always equal to itself, unless we assume that all horses are of equal strength? It is certain that 1 is always equal in number to 1; and where the mere number of objects, or of the parts of an object, without supposing them to be equivalent in any other respect, is all that is material, the conclusions of arithmetic, so far as they go to that alone, are true without mixture of hypothesis. There are such cases in statistics; as, for instance, an inquiry into the amount of the population of any country. It is indifferent to that inquiry whether they are grown people or children, strong or weak, tall or short; the only thing we want to ascertain is their number. But whenever, from equality or inequality of number, equality or inequality in any other respect is to be inferred, arithmetic carried into such inquiries becomes as hypothetical a science as geometry
MATH BLOW THE F OUT

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