/lit/ - Literature

>>19898608
meh, that is the choice to stay in the matrix, but your philosophy there cannot be scaled up to the level of everyone
of course there will be bugmen who will just do whatever the current system tells them, and we need their personalities because not everyone can rebel against the system according to their own philosophy or there would be chaos and humans would go extinct

but you can't pretend then that you want to be a righteous person, only a happy person
in which case when simulation booths or brain computer interfaces come out you should immediately get in and stay in, disregarding any dignity you have from that point forward to live in a land of anime sex where you can't experience pain
because why would you bother experiencing the pain of coming out and your family being sad or disappointed in you to have lost you for so long when you could live having anime sex at every second and never get tired?
which goes to the extent of wanting to change oneself so as not to ever experience pain, in which case you may become (as edited in a computer) a simulation of just one emotion: joy
so you can see how your argument degenerates into the probably opposite of what you really want