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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
You were sort of all over the place with this, and I don't feel like picking it apart, but what I said before is still true.
It's not happiness.
You seem to believe that a perfect life is impossible. That a perfect relationship is impossible. I do believe it's possible, and compared to perfection, this is not happiness.
Also, I mean, did you ever think that maybe she married him to be on TV? Or to force herself to believe she's a good person?
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As I said, I made a much better argument and had to rewrite it after my internet clapped out on me as soon as I hit reply. Life's a bitch.
How do you know that they aren't happy? None of us know them, we wont know until you or I walk up to his wife and say "are you happy?".
This is a pointless argument, one of us is wrong but unless we find a mysterious way to contact his wife and get her to honestly answer that question we will never know.
I didn't think those things because I don't like to make assumptions based on prejudice.
Perfection IS impossible. First of all, are you defining perfection by what is perfect according to what the general public assume? or by what is perfect for individuals according to their own terms?
Secondly, people are fundamentally flawed and bad and good things happen to everybody, anything can happen to someone during their lifetime, perfection is not long term because any number of external influences can shatter it. You can't be completely in control all the time, it's just not possible.