Re:How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert isl...
by coryrc on Saturday February 17, 2024 @05:30AM
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Are 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?
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Re:How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert isl...
by tedkwasright on Saturday February 17, 2024 @06:55AM
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More 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?