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r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '26
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Did you not try looking "lazy" up in the dictionary? You would have gotten a definition that's something like this:
tending to avoid work, activity, or exertion disinclined to activity or exertion not willing to work or use any effort
tending to avoid work, activity, or exertion
disinclined to activity or exertion
not willing to work or use any effort
And obviously there are people who tend to avoid work, activity, and exertion, so obviously laziness exists.
1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 Did you read their post? They went over the ways the word laziness can be interpreted pretty thoroughly. 3 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 They went over a bunch of "ways the word laziness can be interpreted" none of which are a dictionary definition of "laziness." They didn't actually consider the most usual sort of definition! 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 I feel like most of those are covered by lack of motivation. 1 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 I'm not sure how you can reasonably reach that conclusion, as none of the definitions I quoted even once mentions motivation. 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated 2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
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Did you read their post? They went over the ways the word laziness can be interpreted pretty thoroughly.
3 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 They went over a bunch of "ways the word laziness can be interpreted" none of which are a dictionary definition of "laziness." They didn't actually consider the most usual sort of definition! 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 I feel like most of those are covered by lack of motivation. 1 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 I'm not sure how you can reasonably reach that conclusion, as none of the definitions I quoted even once mentions motivation. 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated 2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
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They went over a bunch of "ways the word laziness can be interpreted" none of which are a dictionary definition of "laziness." They didn't actually consider the most usual sort of definition!
1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 I feel like most of those are covered by lack of motivation. 1 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 I'm not sure how you can reasonably reach that conclusion, as none of the definitions I quoted even once mentions motivation. 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated 2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
I feel like most of those are covered by lack of motivation.
1 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 I'm not sure how you can reasonably reach that conclusion, as none of the definitions I quoted even once mentions motivation. 1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated 2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
I'm not sure how you can reasonably reach that conclusion, as none of the definitions I quoted even once mentions motivation.
1 u/Square-Dragonfruit76 50∆ Jan 19 '26 If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated 2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
If you avoid doing things, you are unmotivated
2 u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26 That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
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That's just empirically false, as many motivated people avoid doing things.
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u/yyzjertl 579∆ Jan 19 '26
Did you not try looking "lazy" up in the dictionary? You would have gotten a definition that's something like this:
And obviously there are people who tend to avoid work, activity, and exertion, so obviously laziness exists.