At the end of the day, happiness drives at least most people, and in theory, all
That sounds like a hidden tautology-by-definition. What is happiness? That which people act to obtain. Why do people act? To obtain happiness. Whatever someone does, you can say after the fact that they did it to make themselves happy.
That sounds like a hidden tautology-by-definition. What is happiness? That which people act to obtain. Why do people act? To obtain happiness. Whatever someone does, you can say after the fact that they did it to make themselves happy.
It is a state of mind. So saying that someone is driven by happiness is not tautological—it means that they have a perceptually determined utility function.
I think Plastic’s got it.
I don’t think happiness is defined as whatever people act to obtain. It’s something most people fail at with some regularity.
I mean, just look at Elsa, yah?
Er, Elsa)? Um, what?
Precisely!
Full of noble desires, and of self-destructive means to achieve them.
Her efforts for happiness are wonderfully demonstrative of the failure systemic to like efforts conceived in ignorance.