It serves an evolutionary purpose that’s pretty obvious and eliminating it entirely would cause a lot of problems. We can still find a way to improve the status quo though. We didn’t evolve to maximize net happiness, and we’re going to have to do things we didn’t evolve to do if we want to maximize it.
It serves an evolutionary purpose that’s pretty obvious and eliminating it entirely would cause a lot of problems. We can still find a way to improve the status quo though. We didn’t evolve to maximize net happiness, and we’re going to have to do things we didn’t evolve to do if we want to maximize it.