How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

by Michael Schur

“Who gets to decide what ‘happiness’ is?” would be one question we might ask, given that some people, like me, are normal and well-adjusted, and other people put pineapple on pizza and enjoy listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Existentialism is a little like when your parents yelled at you when you were fifteen because you did something stupid, saying “You’re a grown-up! You’re responsible for your actions!” except in this case it’s a French philosopher yelling at you, and his conclusions deny the existence of God.

The point is this: to demand perfection, or to hold people to impossible standards, is to deny the simple and beautiful reality that nobody is perfect.