No. If I can’t be happy until everything is good, then I can’t expect to feel happy ever. At that point, I give up on trying to make things better because I hate anyone who’d try to make me that unhappy.
I would endorse “never feel guilty because it never helps”—but we really are causal factors in the way our society is shaped, even if we aren’t proximate causes of everything.
No. If I can’t be happy until everything is good, then I can’t expect to feel happy ever. At that point, I give up on trying to make things better because I hate anyone who’d try to make me that unhappy.
I would endorse “never feel guilty because it never helps”—but we really are causal factors in the way our society is shaped, even if we aren’t proximate causes of everything.