> > People are allowed to use their time & effort to do whatever they want to do.
> They are. If that's a good thing remains to be debated, given there are many urgent problems in the world to be solved.
It is a good thing: Personal autonomy is a necessary right. When left alone, a person must be able to perform activities that they want to do.
The binary alternative is no personal autonomy, to which this conversation alone would be forbidden and we would be put to death, as it subtracts from the total efforts of "solving necessary problems". No other discrete or continuous values in between these two extremes can exist in terms of individual personal autonomy, as an atomic action can either be performed or cannot be performed by an individual, with any "half-steps" equivalent to non-performance of such an action.
They are. If that's a good thing remains to be debated, given there are many urgent problems in the world to be solved.