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My conclusion after reading this is that my command of the source texts has seriously declined! I'm quite impressed with some of you! If we could say for certain, for everybody and for all times and places, that: A.) a given desire is unnatural and unnecessary, *and* B.) That we ought not pursue unnatural and unnecessary desires, Then we will have ipso facto established a (false) universal ethical law. Epicurus makes it plain elsewhere that there are no absolute universal ethical laws. So he can…

Wait a minute...🤔 From Don –ἀοχλησία is "freedom from disturbance"... And ἐκκλησία is "a political or religious assembly".... Do I detect a pun here? 🙃