Desrtopa comments on Local Ordinances of Fun - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Alicorn 18 June 2012 03:07AM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 24 June 2012 07:15:24AM 1 point [-]

I am willing to concede that there is a meaningful sense in which happiness and sadness each do not have meaningful opposites, although for most purposes I think it's more practical to treat them as opposed. But I deny that there is any sense in which boredom is the most appropriate "opposite" for happiness, or that dismissing an opposite candidate as being "another side of the same coin" is a creditable insight.