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Notwithstanding, An hour of video games a day doesn't sound like a small amount of time to me.

Replace "video games" with "reading" or "TV" or "dicking about on your phone" and it starts to feel much more reasonable.

Reasonable? If anything it just points to how much of your day disappears with those. Profoundly unreasonable... unless they actually help you reach your goal somehow.

It's a hobby. It doesn't have to have a goal other than leisure or relaxation. It's only unreasonable if it causes distress and prevents him from reaching other goals.

I do not for the life of me understand why every waking activity has to be judged by its contribution to goal achievement maximization.

My goal is to lead a happy life, and by and large the entertainment derived from all of the above activities contribute to that goal.

There is a lot more to life than grinding yourself into the machine you know.

Absolutely not. Maybe it sounds more reasonable because you have been programmed to not think too much about those other activities

Yes, how dare you have an hour of leisure time per day. Unthinkable.

That's not what I'm saying, but your aggressive reaction shows you have a particular attachment to garbage activities

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