Is a sense of humour a luxury... ?

Question

For a pragmatist?

Answer 1

no if he is a sensible then its not luxury to any one.

Answer 2

For people in general it's essential and for pragmatists it's even more so.My father is a pragmatist and he's usually a serious, sensible guy who doesn't laugh too much or too often but when he does laugh he laughs hard and really enjoys the joke.If he didn't have this occasional release valve he would be unhappy himself with the constant grind of life and he would be very difficult to live with.

As many have said, if you can't laugh at yourself and at life you'll never get through it, not happily anyway.

Answer 3

For a pragmatist, I believe a sense of humor is essential. You don't view life so seriously, and can always crack a joke in a most difficult situation. So you can say it is an innate luxurious gift.
It is a practical matter of fact way of approaching changes or assessing situation or of solving problems.

Answer 4

Most of the thinkers who describe themselves as pragmatists consider practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of both meaning and truth. They don't sound very jolly do they, so maybe a sense of humour would be something to feel guilty about instead.

Answer 5

I think sense of humour is a surviving tool. It has a physical/neurological functions as well as social one.

By being able to laugh at our self and seen the funny side on a day to day bassis helps us to survive in a world that seems to have lost any capability of compassion and understanding.

I find that laughter is the best medicine for most of soul afflictions. I do wander though, are people in less fortunate countries laughing enough?

Answer 6

There is nothing light about human sense of humour, however lightening, relieving and, at times, even uplifting it may be; it is a serious business in the mind, and serves a very intelligent purpose when used wisely.

Laughter is not always an expression of pleasure, as smile is not always a sing of happiness, delight or contentment; laughter, in fact, can be a device to conceal weaknesses and embarrassing situations; and smiles can be affixed upon countenance to hide true inner states of an aching heart. But both happiness and pleasure would be luxuries if they would come to us as often as we do laugh or smile, but perhaps it is good that they don’t.

In this sense there is nothing is the original nature of human mind that is luxuriously, extravagantly, superfluously or unnecessarily integrated into forming an intelligent whole, human conscious mind; all things is human life are designed to serve purposes innate to human nature. We can, however, choose to have excessive pleasure in our life and thus making ourselves needlessly happy, and then again pain is but a pleasure gone way out of control.

Sense of humour is purposefully and oft times beautifully integrated into human mind, and it could also be most obvious sign of intelligence and ‘humorously’ balanced physical state of being, as in ancient medicine terms.

When we, for instance, see someone slip and fall in rain we laugh most naturally, because we see the sequence of logic of things happening in front of our eyes, a man otherwise walking carefully along, being suddenly snapped. But we do not laugh it we see a man falling from a horse, as the inner mechanism of responses somehow knows immediately that this might be serious. It is intelligence, that we can use a luxury and then learn the consequences of doing so, that not so humorously.

Answer 7

That is like asking if health is a luxury for a pragmatist, or holy water for that matter.

Answer 8

far beyond luxury
humour is a necessity
it may be THE greatest gift we've been given
other animals may have great intelligence
many may have other forms of commuication
and some are 'playful' (think chimps and dolphins)
but the gift to laugh at ourselves and each other
is what makes us unique in the animal kingdom

addendum:
luxury implies excess
and there is nothing 'excessive' about humour
(my opinion)

Answer 9

I've found that those types tend to be put off by humor, period.

Plain and simple: Most of whom I've come across
are so busy being practical and assume everyone
who isn't is wasting time. They express it in such
a way that it translates as "their" time.

Pity that they're overwhelmingly dronic, or drones.

They just don't have the brains to shift into the humorous.

For if they had, they wouldn't miss that which is
applicable in the first place.

<< Example: Show this entire statement to born pragmatists
and they'll become, you guessed it, Put Off.

Show this to people who aren't Humor-Challenged
(note I'm being PC about it, and guess for whom),
and they'll have additonal anecdotes per their experience. >>

Life is good nonetheless.

Answer 10

It's always nice to be able to find humour in life. So I'd say a sense of humour is always a luxury, regardless of what sort of mindset you've got.

Answer 11

No I think its almost a necessity, especially when dealing with people who don't understand or try to belittle your thoughts and ideas.
Everyone needs the ability to lighten up and to keep things easy. A lack of humor makes one dour, dull and depressing. The ability to laugh, not just at others but also yourself, is essential!