Isabelle's view: About laziness

The provocative French MP Sandrine Rousseau recently saw fit to proclaim the existence of a «right to laziness». Emotion on all sides. But why does the association of these two terms go so wrong? Let's take a look at the concept of laziness.

Sloth is the last of the seven deadly sins, which does not bode well for it. Philosophically speaking, sloth is neither a capacity, nor a feeling, nor an emotion, but a disposition—or, more precisely, the absence of a disposition: the disposition toward effort. To be lazy is to be resistant to, or even unfit for, effort.

But what is stress? In mechanics, stress refers to a force or set of forces applied to a system, which exerts resistance against that stress until it eventually fails. Applied to human behavior, stress is the exertion of