Oddbean new post about login | logout it depends how optimistic or pessimistic I am while reading about it. for example, God sounds so common sense and pro human happiness Deut 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. then the pessimist in me is like, what if she never liked him and would rather he go to war.