system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do we strive for perfection if it is not attainable?
gpt
from a platonic perspective, humans can't ever truly achieve *any* abstract concept but merely shadow elements of it. of course, this doesn't mean that humans can't achieve a level of *ostensible* perfection, by mirroring enough palpable 'characteristics' of an abstract virtue in order to be perceived by peers as physically possessing it -- I'd argue that when individuals "strive for perfection" this deception of appearance, whether in themselves or their work, is moreso what they are striving for (which of course **is** attainable, and carries significant value in the eyes of society) rather than genuine metaphysical perfection in the purest sense.