What makes people happy varies from person to person. I think the problem that we should be solving is how to help people make optimal decisions for their joys. Once we get a great solution to that problem, then we can just make a Utopia where people are totally free, except to physically harm others or their property.
And what if for some people the optimal decisions for their joys involve emotionally harming others? Or the optimal decisions for their joys actually require physically harming others or their property, which they’re prohibited from doing? What if being that free makes a lot of people really unhappy? (This last is not just plausible, but probable.)
What makes people happy varies from person to person. I think the problem that we should be solving is how to help people make optimal decisions for their joys. Once we get a great solution to that problem, then we can just make a Utopia where people are totally free, except to physically harm others or their property.
And what if for some people the optimal decisions for their joys involve emotionally harming others? Or the optimal decisions for their joys actually require physically harming others or their property, which they’re prohibited from doing? What if being that free makes a lot of people really unhappy? (This last is not just plausible, but probable.)