But the following points in the ethics of pessimism should be noted: (1) Pleasure and pain are made the measure of the desirability or undesirability of existence.
At first sight, this account of the relative desirability of pleasures and undesirability of pains seems sensible enough.
While the production of offspring is its chief biological utility, satisfaction of the sex instinct itself is stimulated in human beings quite apart from considerations of the desirability or undesirability of offspring.
You can show the girl who is learning dressmaking the difference between large uneven stitches and small regular ones; the undesirability of having a skirt two inches longer at one side than it is at the other.
Much may be said of the undesirability of distributing withdrawn books among institutions.
The reaction against bare, bleak walls may not make it necessary to warn against over-decoration, but its undesirability should he recognized.
