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Is happiness a fundamental goal?
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I live for nothing more. No God to appease, no morals to uphold except my own.
I live to
maximize the happiness of myself, those who I know by name, and those who I do not. If I were just maximizing my own, I'd be awfully selfish and it would likely come back to bite me in many ways, the foremost being that it would cut into my happiness not having others who were happy around me. If I were just maximizing mine and that of those who I know by name, I'd be neglecting the world; again, it would come back to bite me.
But if I can strive to maximize all three, then I'm right in track with my life goals.