2006-06-15 00:22:33 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Everything in life is at a perfect balance, (e.g. plants providing humans with carbon-dioxide and vice versa) so if you was to be without something this would disrupt the blnce and it wouldn't really work that way.
2006-06-15 06:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 8⤋
To be 'better off' most often implies relative financial status but may also be applied to quality of life in general. I see the intent of this question to imply the latter, more general definition, so I read it as meaning "Which one thing in my life least contributes to my well-being."
Of all the things which contribute to life, one can only consider those things which it is possible to choose to have or not to have, so non-specific things like 'bills' or 'food' or 'health' are not answers.
I think the thing which least contributes to my well-being is 'addictiveness'. This is a quality which tends to deny choice but which may also, to a certain extent, be overcome and controlled by the exercise of choice. I am addicted to tobacco and, to a certain extent, to alcohol, neither of which really improve my well-being much, except in a temporary and subjective way. There are a number of other things which I become addicted to, such as answering questions here, which on balance, increase my quality of life somewhat, but at least if I had not the tendency to addiction, I would be better able to choose, so I would like to be without an addictive tendency, please!
2006-06-15 01:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Television
2006-06-15 00:28:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd be better off without the desire to be thinner. 1/2 the world doesn't have enough to eat and i can't eat a piece of chocolate cake without thinking i shouldn't.
2006-06-15 08:33:33 · answer #4 · answered by stufetta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tony blair failing miserably to rule Britain!
2006-06-15 00:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by Bunnygirl24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hair. I'm actually getting sick of how persistently it wishes to return. If I ever get a house, I'm going to bury the lawn in stone or forest.
2006-06-15 15:28:57 · answer #6 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Piles... hemorrhoids...oh you don't know the pain...I'm glad I'm not gay...I'll take thousands in debt just get rid of me roids...stress... no problem ..my grapes are killin me.
What I'd give for a nice cold lump of concrete to sit upon...BLISS....
you luck,lucky bastards,oh to have a bit of debt...
2006-06-15 00:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by bigpete767 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Secrets and lies.
Answer inspired by Timothy Spall's speech in the Mike Leigh film "Secrets & Lies."
2006-06-15 05:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
live life without worry
2006-06-15 00:26:23 · answer #9 · answered by nicegirl187smile 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All my debt cos I would have a better life if I didn't have any.
2006-06-15 00:24:55 · answer #10 · answered by missieclass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My incurable laziness. My health problems. My tendency to snappishness when I'm irritated.
2006-06-15 00:44:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋