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2568258 No.2568258 [Reply] [Original]

Why do you think reading makes you a better person?

>> No.2568260

>dat arch peek

>> No.2568262

Well, I'm usually not talking when I read.

>> No.2568264

>>2568258
Happiness is better.
Reading makes me happy.
Therefore, reading makes me better.

is there any logical fallacy being employed in this deduction?

>> No.2568263

Because through reading, ideas are given to me which my feeble brain could not conceive of in a thousand years. At the very least, reading opens new possibilities for individuals, and "being a better person" is definitely one of those possibilities.

>> No.2568268

>>2568258
Because it means I have one more thing I can talk to human beings about.

Which makes me better than the guy who only plays video games. :3

>> No.2568270

>>2568268
Humans talk about video games.

>> No.2568280

>>2568264
It's valid, but can be abused, obviously. So it's a stupid argument.

>> No.2568283

>>2568270
Yeah, humans under 18 and humans with the mentality of people under 18.

Grown ups talk about books, and music, and what happened at the dinner party we were at the night before, and what happened on America's Next Top Model.

>> No.2568309

>>2568264
>>2568264
"better" is to be put in context. replace with good and your MP is flawless.
1.R→H
2.H→G
⊢R→G

>> No.2568318

It can perhaps if one buys Rorty's thesis that TV, novels, and movies have replaced the sermon as the mode of moral indoctrination.

>> No.2568335

>>2568309

babby's first modus ponens? hows intro to modern formal logic treating you?

>> No.2568338

The fact that Carl Sagan can illustrate the reason books can make you a better person is the key reason indeed - the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of great minds, that would have been lost to the obscurity of time, if not for books.

“A book is made from a tree. It is
an assemblage of flat, flexible
parts (still called "leaves")
imprinted with dark pigmented
squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the
millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan

>> No.2568345

>>2568309
Yeah. That's a hypothetical syllogism, guy.

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>>2568338

>> No.2568452

Reading lets me to idealistically engage in conversations I could never experience in my current environment. In as much as I start to think about and articulate answers to questions I find "meaningfu," questions provoked in the mind from reading, I feel like a more complete individual. And when I find others who feel the same way, the higher form of friendship that comes from having similar views put me into a much "better" existence altogether than being alone or surrounded by people who don't read (and I might as well be alone).

Reading doesn't make me better than any other person though. It just makes me feel better about my current self than my previous self.

>>2568335
He is doing a transitive relation there.

Modus Ponens is: If A then B / A // B.

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2568459

Because someone has to fight those giants. They're positively ravaging the countryside.

>> No.2568471

Because books help us to empathize with others.

>> No.2568480

It doesn't.

Heavy readers are nearly always shitheads, as evidenced by this board.

>> No.2568482

Pretty much a given that reading makes you more intelligent, so there's that.

Also I'm open to many ideas not many others are, literature is in my opinion the richest medium for abstract ideas, etc.

>> No.2568483

>>2568480

lol

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>>2568480
>implying people that don't read aren't shitheads?

>> No.2568493

>>2568488
Not at all. However, they are usually more likable shitheads.

>> No.2568684

>>2568480

Funny, only in /lit/ you can find so many shitheads heavy readers, most people who read that much in my city are okay funny people that make me envy their sense of humor.

Maybe it's because most of /lit/ readers are trying so hard to be pretentious cunts? nah that can't be it.

>> No.2568711

>>2568488
that's one massive head man

>> No.2568720

>>2568711
Evolution through incest is a fine thing