Wait. Aren’t they right? I don’t like that they don’t terminally value sympathy (though they’re pretty close), but that’s beside the point. Why keep the children suffering? If there is a good reason—that humans need a painful childhood to explore, learn and develop properly, for example—shouldn’t the Super Happy be conviced by that? They value other things than a big orgasm—they grow and learn—they even tried to forsake some happiness for more accurate beliefs—if, despite this, they end up preferring stupid happy superbabies to painful growth, it’s likely we agree. I don’t want to just tile the galaxy with happiness counters—but if collapsing into orgasmium means the Supper Happy, sign me up.
Wait. Aren’t they right? I don’t like that they don’t terminally value sympathy (though they’re pretty close), but that’s beside the point. Why keep the children suffering? If there is a good reason—that humans need a painful childhood to explore, learn and develop properly, for example—shouldn’t the Super Happy be conviced by that? They value other things than a big orgasm—they grow and learn—they even tried to forsake some happiness for more accurate beliefs—if, despite this, they end up preferring stupid happy superbabies to painful growth, it’s likely we agree. I don’t want to just tile the galaxy with happiness counters—but if collapsing into orgasmium means the Supper Happy, sign me up.