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Re:The Problem With Happiness by coldtea on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:52PM (#19830609)
That's a "no true scotchman".

Happiness is simply being happy (or, if you want, content and enjoying yourself).

If you do that by inflicting unhappiness, or by depriving others of things, etc, it's still happiness.

There's no part of the happiness definition that says it's incompatible to with "unhappiness to result in others". That might be part of Bhudism or Christianity etc, but it's not some given of human nature.

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Re:The Problem With Happiness by OneWordSoln on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:32AM (#19831946)
One can't be a Scotsman if one's ancestors don't come from Scotland.

There are things that are true because they fit the proper description and there are people who use "No True Scotsman" because they don't want to learn the truth.

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