> As long as we don't try to push the value system of most people to individuals that dissent I think we would be fine. You clearly don't have much experience

> As long as we don't try to push the value system of most people to individuals that dissent I think we would be fine. You clearly don't have much experience with actual people. > But I am sure we can get some metric that represents most people and this can be used to measure the overall happiness. No need for that. Just measure each person's happiness, no matter how they define it, and sum that over all people. Yes, I am assuming that you can measure a person's happiness, but if you can't, how do you know what makes "most people" happy? Let me suggest that what's likely to happen is that some folks will define happiness as what they like and/or think that other people should like....