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Happiness

Since we all have a free will and since every sane human being prefers happiness over misery; how come we don“t choose to be good/kind/loving to each other all the time? J.T. Kumberg
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October 10, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 11, 2005 (changed October 11, 2005) Permalink

It might be that every sane human being prefers their own happiness over their own misery; alas it doesn't follow from this that every sane human being always prefers other people's happiness over those people's misery. This comes to the crunch if promoting other people's happiness interferes with promoting my own happiness.

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