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While people are starving, terrorized, enslaved and such, and that's really bad, that doesn't necessarily mean there's no point in asking whether you're any hap
by Cushman 15y ago
While people are starving, terrorized, enslaved and such, and that's really bad, that doesn't necessarily mean there's no point in asking whether you're any happier than you'd be as a subsistence farmer.^
If anything, a proper analysis of what really makes us happy could encourage us to use some of our material wealth helping those who are truly oppressed.
^Spoiler alert: Probably not.
- praptak 15y agoI understood GP's point as being about the use of the word slavery (to describe something that is not as bad as the real cases of modern slavery) rather than about the whole article being pointless.
- Cushman 15y agoThat's sensical-- I guess my response would be that if we can conceptualize different severities of murder, rape, theft et al., we're probably intelligent enough to perceive appropriate gradations to the statement "If you stop working you will die."