[quote]I was just trying to point out the contradictions.

R201 Oh I understood, don't worry. I was just extending the thought to make fun of him.

And that 1star review touched on the problem with that "I don't even have to read this to know it's TRASH" book. . . .

That book is obviously and unequivocally the manual that privileged people use to excuse their lives and privilege. Yes, babies are born tabula rasa style. A majority are born to parents that sacrifice anything to care for them, so the first emotion they truly "learn" is happiness. When young children, those same babies grow to play all day with no responsibilities and parents that still sacrifice to care for them. They're still mostly happy (aside from hearing no, which brings sadness. . . wait..)

We start off happy because everything is provided for us. So what changes and when? Well for the extremely privileged like Ben and The HoughMonster, *nothing*. They can afford to continue to have everything provided for them. They can continue to be happy and full of sunshine and SPARKLES All. The. Time.

Problem is, society is a zero sum game. In order for them to be happy all the time, the rest of us HAVE to suffer and go without all the time, because they won't share the literal OR proverbial wealth. It would diminish their "natural" happiness to do so.

Reading books like this teaches the privileged how to live with themselves as they live with everything else the rest of us could use a whole lot more of. It gives them the excuses to convince their rotten brains that they lack all guilt and are doing nothing wrong. They're just continuing on the happy path they've deserved from birth after all.

After all, suffering is a choice, and happiness is our naturally derived default state.

I wonder if Ben and The Ho EVER watch the news, or does REALITY cause too much cognitive dissonance and empathy? I wonder if they know that half a million children in Yemen are literally on the brink of dying from starvation as we speak? I wonder if even *ONE* of those children was "born happy" but chooses now to suffer into a famine and death at 15 months old? Why didn't their young brains just choose to eat their way into a happier life? Maybe they're not old enough to read this book.

If Ben Barnes read this book and thinks or speaks of it with ANYTHING but derision, that is literal proof to me that he is a spoiled *rotten* asshole who does not care about anyone but himself. He *cannot* be a good person and see this book in a positive light. People who can't see this book for the soulless danger it is are the fundamental problem in this world.