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Originally posted by yatzr
blue pill all the way. hell, if i had a choice, i'd probably have a good case of down syndrom...some of the happiest people i've ever met are people with down syndrome. They don't have a care in the world. The only downside to that would be the lack of having my own family. But yeah, i'm all about living a happy life. In the end, does it really matter what you knew or didn't know?
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Hmmm... Would you really? In 1861 John Stuart Mill described this as follows:
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast’s pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
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He was writing in this piece on the quality of pleasure, and ranked the pleasure of reasoning as higher than the base pleasures, and contends that most prefer to be rational, reasoning people with all of the misery that comes with it instead of being blissfully ignorant. I think he hit the nail right on the head.