Comments on: How much is enough?

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:05:29 +0000

hear hear!

By: wareagle

wareagle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:50:55 +0000

and just because someone isnt the CEO of a multinational company, that doesnt mean they dont have a good impact on the world.

By: wareagle

wareagle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:46:58 +0000

raising a good family isn’t a meaningfulo impact on society? thats the best impact one can have on the world is raising good kids. is being in the stone age a bad thing? is the world today really better than it was before? its only been in recent years when this whole idea of helping everyone and all that has come up. for the longest time, people did enough to survive. the 20th century comes and people change their ways and we get the atom bomb, global warming, dwindling resources, and two world wars.

By: guiming

guiming — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:02:14 +0000

but if he just stays a fisherman, he makes no meaningful impact on society and thus, his life is almost meaningless. Obviously, theres the argument that since he arrived at the same place he originally was at, but dont all human beings end up the same place, in the grave, anyways? thats why human life needs to have a meaningful impact on society, and see past your own desires.

if the mexican fisherman does as is advised, his life’s worth will be as much as if he had not been born, and be yet another random person that no one knows, and at the end of the day, it will be as if he had never existed.

This story is nice and very idealistic, but its backwards anti-civilization. The reason human society has progressed so far is the shunning of the individual, and mass contributions to society as a whole. living just to bring yourself pleasure is an ultra-shallow lifestyle.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:31:08 +0000

This is proof that money doesn’t bring happiness.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:31:31 +0000

Perhaps, but what is necessarily bad about that? Simplicity is happiness. Greed ultimately makes you and everyone else agitated.

Division of labor is one thing, but pursuing something with capitalistic interest is a whole ‘nother issue.

By: Nono

Nono — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:28:14 +0000

If everyone was just like the fisherman, then we’d still be in the stone age…

By: Shih

Shih — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:36:39 +0000

Very nice story. Everything goes back to what it was! Besideds, if he fishes just enough then the resource is going to support his whole life. But if he is greedy then he may end up destroying the resource, and may end up worse.