That's Some Catch

"Single Minded Meditation: We must first stop external distractions through training in the morality of maintaining mindfulness and conscientiousness with regard to physical and verbal activities - being constantly aware of what you are doing with your body and your speech.  Without overcoming these obvious distractions, it is impossible to overcome subtler internal distractions."  The Dali Lama

So I can't just think what I want without regard to other people?  Dammit.  I can't behave however I want despite my certainty that my behavior is either right or justified?

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.  Orr was crazy and could be grounded.  All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.  Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.  If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”

If I want to be happy then I have to think about other people but when I think about other people it makes me unhappy.  So if I think about them I'm doing the right thing but I'm unhappy.  But if I don't think about them I'm happy but I'm not doing the right thing which make me unhappy.  So my unhappiness with the lives of others means that I'm not doing the right thing because if I was doing the right thing I'd be really unhappy.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," Seaweed mused.

"It's the best there is."

"Happy, Pappy?" Susan Biddle Ross

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” 

Remember: it's not a lie if you believe it."  George Costanza

Tolerance:  An acceptance of or tolerance of the beliefs, opinions, or practises of others.
Intolerance:  Indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others.

I'm not going to go into it right now.