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Need help understanding "you can do what you want but you can't want to want what you want"
Came across this article -
http://www.paulgraham.com/want.html
Need some help decodifying it ?
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Even if one's preferences are flawless, what might we wish to be done, but think that they oughtn't be done?
Source: Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been (2008 1 edn). p. 155 Middle.
I don't understand the emboldened sentence beneath. What are some common real-life yens that fit and can instance the titled question? Why would we think that these yens…
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