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    Challenges→Categorical desires give a person reason to live.

    Therefore, categorical desires provide reasons to practice detachment, not reasons to live.

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    • 1.Categorical desires (desires for their own sake) bind us to endless pursuits that generate suffering when unfulfilled.
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    • 2.Detachment from categorical desires reduces psychological attachment to outcomes, which is necessary for equanimity.
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    • 3.Living well requires freedom from compulsive desire-satisfaction; detachment enables this freedom more than pursuing desires.
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    • 1.Categorical desires are constitutive of meaningful human life—love, creativity, and purpose inherently involve them.
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    • 2.Reasons to live require some categorical desires; detachment from all such desires leaves no motivational ground for living.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'reasons to practice detachment' with 'reasons not to live'—one can desire detachment while valuing life.
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