I did not learn anything in tutorial. I would either a) say the "normal thing" and get questioned mercilessly for how "proper" or "mainstream" it is or (almost) b) say what I really think (see next para), and get everyone looking at you weird because it's obvious this person don't give a shit.
I really do think that most of these problems are not meaningful to us in any way. What do advice columns have to do with ethics? What happened to the comprehensive and coherent long arguments in textbooks and journals? Can someone explain to me why we are studying something on the Internet and actually writing a paper about it? So what if girl hates her sister in law for being a tight control freak? Or if some guy wants his girlfriend to stop falling asleep during sex? If this guy comes up to me and I did not know better, I'm gonna say are you joking, I have actual problems to deal with. I get the feeling a lot of these people write to advice columns for the sake of feeling better, to have their own drama moment. I spent three years reading actual biological science and seeing it in application, of course I'd have problems with these moral, abstract thingies!
Blessedly made it to the halfway point of the appallingly thick Happiness Hypothesis, which I find by now a pain to read in comparison to the lighter and more condensed things like Daniel Goleman's ____ Intelligence series.
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