The other issue is your personal situation. If you're living in a country with intense conflict or in a war zone, you can’t just try to survive for 40 years while “waiting” for the country to make progress. You move, and that’s it.

Plus, given that people’s freedom is constantly increasing, and they have more and more options available, expecting that everyone will autonomously choose a healthy lifestyle is like waiting for Santa Claus—unless you plan to take that freedom away from them.

When you completely separate routines from the data, you end up coupling the code that calls the routine with the data it’s passing. I don’t see how it would be possible to maintain that level of separation while achieving the same level of isolation that’s possible with objects, where it’s possible to truly know nothing about the data in a given interaction.

I’m referring here to the purest aspect, in terms of pure functions. At some point, the data has to come from an impure source, and honestly, I don’t see why a closure would be better than an object—practically, they’re the same thing.

Both cases assume that individuals are being coerced out of their potential to transform the world for the better, whether by Big Brother or by TikTok. In my view, both stem from an assumption that I don’t see playing out in the real world: that all individuals have the desire or capacity to make a difference and be something "more".

I think this idea came from the Enlightenment. That’s when we started to forget that, unfortunately, the overwhelming majority are just here to occupy space.

Why do we feel the need to prefer or not prefer what others do with their time? Isn’t that something that concerns only the person and their own life, which really shouldn’t concern us at all?

I think your point really highlights this ethical mindset that has become so prominent today, especially with the rise of the internet.