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It’s a bit of a brutalization of the concept of ideal to reduce it to mere happiness. The junkie on his way to a fentanyl overdose may very well be happy, but n
by User23 5y ago
It’s a bit of a brutalization of the concept of ideal to reduce it to mere happiness. The junkie on his way to a fentanyl overdose may very well be happy, but nobody who is honest and not evil would hold it up as an ideal life.
It’s pretty obvious that an ideal has to account for externalities to be much of one.
- borski 5y agoBut “success” is a fleeting metric, is the point. In your meth use example, the addiction and codependency are due to a physical dependency. Child-rearing is a choice, not a physical addiction. Can’t compare apples and oranges. Happiness is measured in happiness. We can also measure health. But “success” is too subjective to matter as a useful metric.