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		_pdp_ on Sept 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Is a Minimally Good Life? Good life is the absense of bad life.

Koshkin on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

Absence does not imply presence.

_pdp_ on Sept 24, 2020 | [–]

It is easy to enumerate what is bad for ones life - much harder to define a good life, hence one is able to achieve "good life" by substracting all that is considered "bad life".

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