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Anywho...

I quote from this individual (whoever he may be)...

"While it does not mean you must be devoid of human emotion and basic human needs, you should be devoid of strong illogical preferences."

How do you figure that ties into denying desires? First off, understanding the Philosophy of Desire is quite a tricky thing. You will always have desires. Desire to eat, to sleep, to go to the bathroom. But it's the subjective aspects of these, the specifics, which is where "illogical preferences" come into play. For example:

OBJECTIVE: desire to eat.
IS IT LOGICAL?: indeed...to cure hunger.

SUBJECTIVE 1: basic five-food-group meal.
IS IT LOGICAL?: indeed...sustains nutrients, helps growth, health, etc.

SUBJECTIVE 2: fast food.
IS IT LOGICAL?: is processed food, not healthy, etc.

SUBJECTIVE 3: a fancy feast.
IS IT LOGICAL?: indeed...could be healthy. But is food really worth $50? Especially when you can get the same nutrients out of a meal similar to it which costs only $7.


So, as you see, he's not arguing that man should abandon all manner of desire, for that is A. illogical; and B. improbable...and most likely impossible. He's merely saying that if one were to take a purely strategic approach to all the objectives in one's life, weighing the outcome of all the subjectives, and if one chose wisely (that is, always supporting the higher validity and soundness of the logic), then one would in fact be ultra-human...or whatever he's truly proclaiming an individual could be.