Stephen Hawking was better off without his condition

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Stephen Hawking's physical condition has not only rendered him into a wheelchair, but it has also significantly hindered his scientific progress and discoveries. Sure, he has definitely made progress and discoveries. But if it weren't for this condition in the first place, then he could have made so much more progress and discoveries.

So, in my personal view, he would have been far better off never having this condition. His condition might have yielded some growth and development in his personality, but that is none of my concern. My concern if I were a scientist like him would be to make as much discoveries and progress as I possibly could. That, to me, would be growth and development.

I view personal growth and development differently than the typical Rocky Balboa meme. I view it as having all the happiness, progress, health, discoveries, etc. given to you. It is what modern science is trying to make happen. The Rocky Balboa version of growth and development is simply outdated to me. It is primitive and needs to be thrown away since a life of illness, suffer, and misery is nothing of any value to me.

But a highly advanced life created through science in the future where all illnesses are eliminated and where we can have nothing holding us back and beating us down from pursuing and achieving the full degree of our goals, dreams, and pursuits, then that would be the greatest life in my opinion. That would be the greatest growth and development one could have.

Therefore, I think all the geniuses out there would be far better off without any illness or condition holding them back from achieving the full degree of their goals, dreams, and pursuits. They would have been able to create so much more works of art, make so much more progress and discoveries, etc. So this is a topic where you can complain and hate on all the suffering, depression, misery, disease, and mortality in this life and how much it hinders us, beats us down, and hinders us.

If there were someone or something I really hated in my life, then I would want to present that said thing or person here so it or he/she can get beat up like a punching bag by all the hate and complaints of others. Therefore, that is what I am trying to do here in this topic since I really hate depression, unhappiness, suffering, illness, disease, and mortality. Without such loathsome things in our lives, then our lives would yield so much more value, growth, development, joy, happiness, health, and progress.

[Impenitent]

and what of the genius that wants to inflict "all the suffering, depression, misery, disease, and mortality in this life" especially in the name of "progressivism"?

-Imp

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and what of the genius that wants to inflict "all the suffering, depression, misery, disease, and mortality in this life" especially in the name of "progressivism"?

-Imp

I would say that it is all completely pointless. My ideal version of life would be the far better life.

[thedoc]

Stephen Hawking's physical condition has not only rendered him into a wheelchair, but it has also significantly hindered his scientific progress and discoveries. Sure, he has definitely made progress and discoveries. But if it weren't for this condition in the first place, then he could have made so much more progress and discoveries.

Quite right, without his physical condition he could have faded into obscurity and no-one would know anything about him, then his contrabution could have been even less than it is now.

[thedoc]

My ideal version of life would be the far better life.

Your vision of an ideal life is nonexistence.