It doesn’t have to make sense to others, but if the thing that makes you happy is harmful to others, like eating your own child (which is an… interesting? choice to illustrate this specific point. E: and as pointed out bellow, a deliberate one), others absolutely do have a right and even responsibility to stop you.
(go vegan)
I think in this case it is more apt to realize that the artist painted this on the wall of his dining room in his house where he never had any visitors. The definition of “happiness” in this context would have to be a tad…malleable though.
Although he initially decorated the rooms of the house with more inspiring images, in time he painted over them all with the intensely haunting pictures known today as the Black Paintings. Created without commission for private display, these paintings may reflect the artist’s state of mind late in a life that witnessed the violence of war and terror stoked by the Spanish Inquisition.
This is actually ridiculous
- People are frequently judgmental of what others enjoy, and it can be harmful (kinkshaming) but it can also just help us find more enjoyable things to do, it can feed ego and hedonism.
- Other groups of people love to share details about what they enjoy.
“You shouldn’t care what other people think” is almost literally bad advice because its so vague.
Perhaps… You can choose to ignore what others say about the things you enjoy, you can decide to keep it a secret, or you can use other people to help find answers to life’s never ending question: “How can I have a good time?”
Saturn’s face always looked very unhappy to me in this picture, like, he is deeply in anguish about what he’s doing. How can anyone see anything other than horror and sadness in those eyes?
Mostly yes, but with some imagination he could also have the expression of someone being caught mid act, and kind of having a scared/awkward ‘ow fuck, what do I do now’ look.
Counterpoint, liking children
Parents: I don’t think so
Couterpoint to eating human bodies?
