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Pointless Quotes
Blunt lines on effort, logic, and purpose that go nowhere.
Calling something pointless is a way of drawing a hard line, whether that's a legal argument against punishment that serves no purpose or a philosopher declaring happiness itself an unworkable goal. This page collects that bluntness, related in tone to our About quotes page.
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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
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Logic is pointless.
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'Happiness' is a pointless goal.
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