Is there anything that can be not bad in excess?

[Olas]

You can never have enough of ME!

Actually I feel I've had more than enough Mass Effect for one lifetime. OH! I see what you mean. Ya I've never been to Maine so I can't comment.


Out of curiosity I'd actually like to ask the reverse question, is there anything that can't be beneficial in (sometimes extreme) moderation? For example a common treatment for allergies is giving people small injections of the chemical they're allergic to. Vaccines work by exposing us to a virus so that we can build up an immunity. Radiation is common in many medical treatments.

 

[RedDeadFred]

This is easy. The answer is Breaking Bad. I am confident that if makers of that show had the ability to keep making new episodes with the same characters forever, they would find ways to make it consistently good.

Captcha; Want more?

YES!!!! I can't bear to wait almost an entire year for the conclusion!

 

[BNguyen]

Is there anything you can do that no matter how often you do it, you suffer absolutely no negative effects?

At this point in my life? Programming. The more I do it, the more I learn. The more I learn, the better grades I get. The better grades I get, the better scholarships I get. The Better Scholarships I get, I pay less money. The less money I pay, the happier I am. The Happier I am, the better chance I get get promoted/do better at my job. The better I do my job, the better programming I do. The better programming I do: The more I learn.

So far I see no downsides to this.

man, I hate to be the downer in this thread but the way I see it: the better you are at something over anyone, no matter how much you enjoy doing it at first, will eventually grow tedious and tiresome when so many people and if you continuously get better, eventually everyone will come to you for help. I think it would get tiring to try and help everyone especially seeing as how there are so many people that need help even with simple stuff.

It isn't like I am going to be doing the teaching here. I am going to be working alongside other professionals. The whole point of coding is trying to learn new stuff and solve problems, which are generally very simple if you know what your doing anyway. So solving other people's simple problems are kind of in line with the job itself.

Well, I went with the thinking that if you got to the point where you got better at it than everyone else (excess of learning and understanding) you'd be put into a position where people would rely on you and if you were at the top of the pile, because obviously if you become better then other 'professionals' couldn't compete with you and you'd be the only one at the top because of your abilities. As more and more people relied on you I would think it'd get tiresome having to practically take care of every problem that the others couldn't.
If you got good enough, I'm sure it would seem simple but everyone else wouldn't see it that way and would need help and thus would come to you for understanding, I'd get tired of trying to solve problems like that because frankly there is a limit on being able to enjoy something no matter what it is.

 

[BNguyen]

This is easy. The answer is Breaking Bad. I am confident that if makers of that show had the ability to keep making new episodes with the same characters forever, they would find ways to make it consistently good.

Captcha; Want more?

YES!!!! I can't bear to wait almost an entire year for the conclusion!

except Skyler needs to die or at least suffer an injury to prevent her from appearing. god she's annoying

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Death is only ever not negative if you are committing suicide or dying satisfied at an elderly age.

You have never been inside a long-term care facility.

Apart from those two circumstances why is death not negative if so many people go to such great lengths to avoid it?

It's not negative because if you live long enough, you lose your family, your friends, your senses, your energy, your ability to participate in your life, your social relevance, your control of your bodily functions, and your mind; your body rots and drags your mind down with it. If people were immortal and not subject to the decays of age and ill health, then sure, death would be all kinds of negative. As it is, death is the natural and necessary response to failure of the body. It's where we're all going, and it is better than the alternative.

The question asks "Is there anything you can do that no matter how often you do it, you suffer absolutely no negative effects?" The first death counts as a negative effect, just because the person who has died cannot suffer any further negative effects is irrelevant as a negative effect has already been achieved.

Yet you yourself listed situations in which death is not negative, so why are you treating it as categorically undesirable?

Death is generally undesirable, this is clear. Go ask 100 different people in the street if they would like to die, I assure you all of them save perhaps a very small percentage will say no, they would not like to die. Dying a timely death from age is unfortunately not the only time death occurs, people have accidents, are murdered etc. Take all the people who are currently alive today, what percentage of these people are old and ready to die? This is about generalization, not specific cases of a person who doesn't consider death a negative thing. The average person views death as undesirable.

 

[RedDeadFred]

This is easy. The answer is Breaking Bad. I am confident that if the makers of that show had the ability to keep making new episodes with the same characters forever, they would find ways to make it consistently good.

Captcha; Want more?

YES!!!! I can't bear to wait almost an entire year for the conclusion!

except Skyler needs to die or at least suffer an injury to prevent her from appearing. god she's annoying

Hmm... yes this is true. Okay, get rid of her somehow, then they can make awesome episodes forever.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Vitamin C. Never has detrimental effects.

diarrhoea bro

XD

friends

 

[Something Amyss]

Nope. Too much porn is bad. After a certain point, it doesn't even turn you on anymore, it just makes you laugh. :O

I'll share this with my girlfriend and see how she responds.

 

[Altorin]

I really don't know.. I just do everything to excess anyway

 

[JimB]

Death is generally undesirable, this is clear.

It is clear to you. It is not clear to me.

Go ask a hundred different people in the street if they would like to die; I assure you all of them save perhaps a very small percentage will say no, they would not like to die.

Fine. Now you go ask a hundred different people who are physically incapable of being out on those same streets and let's compare notes as if general consensus and popular opinion are some kind of authority.

Dying a timely death from age is unfortunately not the only time death occurs; people have accidents, are murdered, et cetera.

And they, like the ill and the elderly, are dying because of their bodies fail them. That's the way the world is supposed to work.

Take all the people who are currently alive today: What percentage of these people are old and ready to die?

Old age is not the only reason to be ready to die.

This is about generalization, not specific cases of a person who doesn't consider death a negative thing. The average person views death as undesirable.

"Undesirable" is not synonymous with "bad." People don't generally desire to feel pain, but pain is an absolutely necessary biological response to injury that alerts you to the damage you've suffered so you'll respect it and allow yourself time to heal.

 

[Frission]

...Being happy?
Can you actually suffer from perpetually being in good spirits? I have to wonder about that.

I don't know. If you're perpetually happy you may be insane. Euphoria isn't actually good for you.

I don't know for my part. Blink too forcefully and too much and it can be bad. Hyperventilation is out. Can you be terminally bored? Boredom can drive you insane.

Hmm, the question is indeed a good one.

 

[rbstewart7263]

...
Uhh...
That's a damn good question. The only thing I can come up with is... Meditation? And even then, I'm probably just not thinking hard enough about it haha...

Depending on the kind of meditation there was a story of a guy who meditated for 10 years in india and his arms quit working.

not exactly scientific but whatever.lol

 

[The Consequence]

Nonexistence. Because just a little bit, is you know, all of it.

 

[deathzero021]

my only guess is Oxygen. I don't see how having lots of oxygen could be bad but i don't know everything about biology so i could be wrong.

 

[BNguyen]

my only guess is Oxygen. I don't see how having lots of oxygen could be bad but i don't know everything about biology so i could be wrong.

well, if there was too much oxygen in the atmosphere, it would either poison us or a sudden spark could cause the entire world to ignite

 

[Nouw]

Nope, a balance is always best.

my only guess is Oxygen. I don't see how having lots of oxygen could be bad but i don't know everything about biology so i could be wrong.

Apparently it is. I never really knew why until this article though. [http://science.howstuffworks.com/question493.htm]

 

[90sgamer]

Is there anything you can do that no matter how often you do it, you suffer absolutely no negative effects?

I can think of a few off the top of m head.
Learn
Forgive (not to be confused with inaction or being a push over)
love

well, there could be a few things wrong with forgiveness and love. for forgiveness, it'd be like letting a criminal go no matter how much wrong they do and no matter how bad it gets. And for love, you could actually start to love something so much that it becomes destructive towards anything that might possibly get between yourself and the object or person of that directly love.

Forgiveness does not meet to let someone go after wrong doing. I looked it up to make sure.
What you described isn't love. You described the want for something. Love=/=want.

 

[TheHmm]

Is there anything you can do that no matter how often you do it, you suffer absolutely no negative effects?

I'd say... osmosis... keeping the osmosis going... that cant go bad.