...a serious & honorable life, or a life of debauchery & fun?
Please explain why you would choose either.
2007-04-20 03:21:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That is part of the problem. It is not a clear choice. We all need balance in our lives to become whole persons. We need a little bit of everything to be able to make reasonable balanced, well informed choices.
My tendency would be towards an honorable life, but to tack on serious is to deny the joy of fun. At least that is how I perceive the decision making process.
I could also choose the debauchery and fun and go really light on the debauchery. Depending on the work I choose to do, I could have fun doing it.
The choices are a bit out of balance. It is not a clear choice to me, I cannot choose. Thank you.
2007-04-28 03:05:07 · answer #1 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I like to live a life of honorable fun, with a little serious debauchery thrown in from time to time.
2007-04-20 10:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Erwin B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion or not, most people who choose debauchery end up discovering that it's not really fun. Take booze - doing too much of it makes you sick, both in the short term and by destroying your liver and brain cells. Ditto for drugs. And multiple sex partners and experiences can give you diseases which run from mildly annoying to fatal. Fame robs you of privacy and the ability to have true friends.
I think you will find that the things that are the most fun usually occur in an honorable life - things like enjoying the company of family and friends, enjoying the self-esteem one gets from helping others, enjoying the beauty that is all around you every day.
2007-04-20 10:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Serious and honorable. The life of debauchery and fun would be easy, sure, but it would require nothing from me and would be selfish and irresponsible to choose. Not to mention the fact that I would leave no significant contribution to those around me or the world, for that matter. I would rather live with integrity and be a benefit to those around me and not on a list of someone's "regrets."
Besides... you can still have plenty of fun being serious and honorable. You may not be on the next episode of Jack-***, but you can still have fun minus the shame or emberassment.
2007-04-20 10:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Mr_Masks99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I seriously think a lifetime of debauchery and fun would pall after 70 or 80 years, and leave one feeling
purposeless, unfulfilled and depressed about what one had done with ones life.
A serious and honorable life, after 80 years would leave one feeling a sense of accomplishment, fulfilled and that one had contributed to society and the betterment of mankind.
Personal pleasure, in the long run doesn't hold a candle to the pleasure of actually contributing something worthwhile.
2007-04-20 10:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by Leal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is life without a few laughs?
But what is life without honor?
The answer to both is that it is not much of a life at all.
It all depends on if you belive in religion.
If you believe that debauchery will keep you from entrance to Heaven, then you will lead a serious life.
If not, you will be having reckless fun.
As for me... ... I choose a serious life, but I often stop to crack a few jokes and laugh and have fun!
:)
2007-04-20 10:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by orchestra_chick07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can be honorable without being serious all the time and a life of debauchery will almost always lead to tragedy.. so I'd choose honorable and fun..
2007-04-20 10:31:36 · answer #7 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would choose a serious and honorable life, because it seems to me that would be the only life worth living.
2007-04-26 21:24:55 · answer #8 · answered by 333xxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Debauchery and fun most definatly. In modern times a person grows up to work. And only work. Once you start in high school, you never stop until you reach the age of retirement, or you die. That to me is pathetic. In high school and college you are non-stop preparing for this working world. That to me is just pathetic and boring. People live to work, psh, people should live to live and have fun! You only get it once!
2007-04-20 10:32:07 · answer #9 · answered by poffwah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The serious and honourable one.
Because that is what I have known about myself from day one, its the natural me and I'd have a lot of difficulty pretending I was the other one... I probably could choose fun overall and fall in and out of love every other day, but I tend too be too empathic and sensitive to ever be really convincingly debauched, I would cave in and join a convent or something.
2007-04-20 10:31:31 · answer #10 · answered by Monita C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋