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But how happy are they?
by kelseyfrog 3y ago
But how happy are they?
- thfuran 3y agoWhat an utterly absurd question. You've clearly lost sight of what's important: The metrics.
- labster 3y agoYeah the islanders might say they are happy but are they meeting or exceeding their OKRs?
- sidewndr46 3y agoMore importantly, how much did their 401k grow last year?
- ffgjgf1 3y agoIt’s easy for a society to be “happy” (whatever that mean and however you measure that) when only fully healthy people get a chance to live and everyone else is dead.
- coryrc 3y agoAre more people individually less happy better than fewer people individually more happy? Do you just multiply the two together to decide which is morally better?
- tedkwasright 3y agoMore importantly, do you factor in people died from otherwise treatable diseases as negative happiness, or neutral (as they no more have a brain to secrete serotonin)? Is death unhappiness? For the subject and his relatives? When death is commonplace is it still a source of unhappiness or accepted as a part of natural flow, with human life being regarded as less permanent and more ephemeral, with greater emphasis on the present moment and less on future plans and ambitions?
- thfuran 3y agoDeath is commonplace everywhere. Everybody dies.
- joshuahedlund 3y agoI actually don’t think that’s too relevant of a question. If there’s a high amount of suffering and cruelty, along with a mental philosophy that allows for happiness in spite of that (for the survivors), that still doesn’t make the suffering ok. To say otherwise is to take a step toward justifying slavery if the slaves are conditioned to be happy…