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Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. The greatest happiness therefore, should be found in the process of breeding and car
by kolleykibber 6y ago
Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. The greatest happiness therefore, should be found in the process of breeding and caring for offspring.
Social status (consumption, skills and achievements) helps you secure higher quality mates and offers greater security to your offspring. That's why gaining social status, feels worthwhile, but without kids it feels a bit empty.
Before kids, I knew the breeding was pretty good fun, but my genes gave me no indication that having kids would be fun too.
Perhaps thats just to ensure those genes are spread far and wide and to concentrate on social status before the all consuming process of caring for offspring begins.
- gmtx725 6y agooverly reductive evolutionary psychology 101 but ok...
- virgilp 6y ago> Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. I disagree. Generally happiness comes from being happy/content/thankful for what you have (as opposed to "having a lot"). You can be happy having no children, no fortune, no fame, etc. Conversely all of these do not guarantee happiness - Robin Williams committed suicide despite having them all, I think it's fair to assume he was not happy.
- kolleykibber 6y ago> Robin Williams committed suicide despite having them all, I think it's fair to assume he was not happy. That's why I added 'Generally' and 'should be found'. It would be fair to say that Robin Williams was ill.
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