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A Philosophical Challenge Name me something worth pursuing t..
🕑 Added 2025-05-07 01:53:21 +0000 UTCA Philosophical Challenge
Name me something worth pursuing that doesn't somehow maximize my personal experience of pleasure or minimize my personal experience of pain.
Because I can name no such thing.
Everything that I should be concerned with has significance only to the extent that it lends itself in some way to feeling good and not feeling bad.
There are no exceptions.
Truth? Friendship? Love? Money? Health? Time? Safety? Security?
All of these are valuable precisely because they are either identical to or useful for the acquisition of pleasure or avoidance of suffering.
Meaning and purpose?
That which is meaningful or instills my life with a sense of purpose is merely a subset of what brings me positive emotion.
Even morality is a tool.
If morality was not instrumental to living a happy life, there would be no good reason to be moral.
So go ahead and give it a try. Think of something to challenge this. Persuade me to think otherwise.
Here's the test:
X is valuable and worth doing, but X does absolutely nothing to contribute to my happiness. X does not give me any pleasure at all and X does not diminish my suffering or discomfort in any way.
If you can find something that satisfies these conditions, then you win. I will cease to be a hedonist.
But until then this is the framework with which I will be using to evaluate my decision making.
