Squid #8 - Optimism - The Argument For and Against
Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavour, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point: an optimist is said to see the glass as half full, while a pessimist sees the glass as half empty.Can you be overly optimistic?Can you be overly pessimistic? Or even realistic? And how do these two worlds balance each other?DAS gets back to insulting Peter (encouraged by a listener he alleges) and Peter goes down the path of Nuns and happiness (and he has no-one but himself to blame for this)