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10677032 No.10677032 [Reply] [Original]

Having free will sucks. Why did philosophers ever think this was a good thing? If we ever get the technology to manipulate someone's mind to make them perpetually content and happy, I'll be the first one to jump into it.

>> No.10677047

but you don't have free will :^)

>> No.10677058

>>10677032
You could buy enough heroin to be in utter bliss until you die by overdose right now. So why don't you?
Personally I think the way opioid users look like animals just lying there doing nothing with their lives and rotting away is enough to make me choose the unhappy alternative since that way you can actually become something and make something of your life rather than throwing it away because it feels good.

>> No.10677060

>>10677032
I bet you think Brave New World is a Utopia

>> No.10677063

If we ever get the technology to manipulate someone's mind to make them perpetually content and happy, I'll be the first one to jump into it.
We already have these, they're called antidepressants. And a large portion of people (after the initial weeks of happiness) become existentially depressed, and worse (I was of them).
"Qualia" changes. For the worse—almost a zombiefication; you are still there seemingly locked up, the emotions aren't your own.

Obviously, it's still good for people with the physical inability to be "happy"/emotional scale all fucked up.

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>>10677058
>>10677063
this
>>10677032
Happiness is overrated.

>> No.10677083

>>10677058
>>10677063
Both of those require becoming a wage slave and getting sucked into an expensive pharmaceutical addiction. Kind of defeats the point.

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>>10677032
read this

>> No.10677115

who here would say he is truly happy?

>> No.10677121

>>10677083
So not only do you want eternal happiness, you want eternal happiness at no cost and no negative effects? This must be the age of the Last Man after all.

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>>10677121
>This must be the age of the Last Man after all.

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>wanting to be happy
>not being content with misery
What a fag