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by NikolaeVarius 3270 days ago
I could literally make the exact same argument about getting exercise.

Getting exercise sucks, it makes you exhausted, it hurts because you're literally harming your body in the short term so that it heals stronger, and it requires will power to go out and do every day and do it. Your body is doing all it can to prevent unnecessary expenditure of energy.

Is the solution to this just to make some crazy ass pill that solves all these issues? Or is it to just deal with it and exercise?

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Since the pill that replicates all the benefits of exercise does not exist, you need to exercise to get the benefits of exercise. The benefits of exercise are worth the personal costs.

If and when someone does invent a crazy ass pill that replicates all the benefits of exercise without the effort, I'll gladly embrace it. The self-discipline-and-enduring-suffering part of exercise is just a means to an end, not a virtue in itself.