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Getting an IV is a dramatically more effective way of hydration than drinking a glass of orange juice. Yet life isn't an RPG where you minmax and pick the task that increases your stat the most.


> Yet life isn't an RPG where you minmax and pick the task that increases your stat the most.

Actually, that's basically how I try to organize my life...


I didn't mean to imply that rationally optimizing your decisions is a bad idea. Just that things are deeper and more complex.

Exercising might improve your mental health more than playing a video game for the same duration, but both activities will also affect many other "character stats" in various different ways.


But you obviously don't have to, rather there is no moral or material requirement that you do so.


Each stat carries with it the opportunity to level it up and do more good in the world.


That doesn't seem so obvious that it should be taken as true on its face. You could perhaps reason your way there, but it may not pan out in reality.




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