Scala Cats Pure on List with Multiple Items

Question

With cats library. I can easily do

1.pure[List]

but how do I do create a list with multiple items using pure?

Answer 1

A monad M must obey some laws. One of them is

pure[M](x).flatMap(f) = f(x)

for arbitrary functions f: A -> M[A].

With the common implementation of List.flatMap, this leaves not much room for different implementations of pure[List].