You forgot to mention—two weeks later he and all other humans were in fact deliriously happy. We can see that he at this moment did not want to later be that happy, if it came at this cost. But what will he think a year or a decade later?
I suppose he will be thinking along the same lines as a wirehead.
Is that a bad thing?
Not for the wirehead, but for the mind who died to create him.
You forgot to mention—two weeks later he and all other humans were in fact deliriously happy. We can see that he at this moment did not want to later be that happy, if it came at this cost. But what will he think a year or a decade later?
I suppose he will be thinking along the same lines as a wirehead.
Is that a bad thing?
Not for the wirehead, but for the mind who died to create him.