I'm thinking about starting a career in stand-up comedy. Seems easy enough
It sounds fun, if you like performing and entertaining others.
I don't like entertaining so much. It seems like a good way to get free therapy. Ya know, spilling your guts to a stranger. Or strangers in this case.
Oh cool, yeah I get it. Entertaimnet is basically giving pleasure to others and holding their attention, while what you're saying it's more like a self-therapy kind of thing.
Sure. I'm OK with my therapy being others' entertainment. I can work through emotions, and talk about stuff that bothers me. And it's a socially acceptable way to complain and insult others. The perfect therapy.
Yeah it's kind of unethical to me, but to many it's acceptable. Speaking of ethics, maybe you've heard of NIcomachean Ethics? It's the name of best-known work of Aristotle on ethics.
I think I read it in my Intro to Philosophy course in college. I can't remember a damn thing about it, though.
It's basically an answer to question on how men should live best, of course Plato and Socrates also worked on that topic. Who doesn't anyway, I think we all look for this answer.
"The unexamined life is not worth living," said Plato or Socrates. I can't remember. Cool dudes, they must've been, ya know?
I think it was Socrates. He was the founder of the Western Philosophy, also ethical tradition of thought, I mean sure he was cool.