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Okay, fine. It’s acceptable to damage the body to heal the body. For example, exercise, where you damaging muscle fibers to heal, maintain, and/or improve the body. Also for example, intoxication, by virtually every vector known to exist, often damaging the body in order to maintain the body. Being alive is about tradeoffs, not about minmaxing. You can max out any statistic, but only at the cost of the others — sanity included. Alternately, being alive is about the exquisite joy of minmaxing, being able to hyper focus on one specific body goal at the cost of everything else in your life, including sanity (if you’re not careful). “I’m sane without intoxicants”: so no nature, no music, no games, no social joy, then. For example, this is either a description of an acid trip or of someone listening to orchestral music on the radio: “It was so amazing. I’ve never felt so alive. It was, like, there was a train running through the mountains, and my room was one of the train cars, and I could see it right there, and I just stared at the wall for like half an hour and enjoyed the ride.” I find it simpler to discuss mind and body in separate terms since people have trouble seeing transcendent experiences as intoxicants, but I hope this use of your terms helps clarify my viewpoint. |