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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 March 2015 11:57:33AM 1 point [-]

At the end of the day, happiness drives at least most people, and in theory, all

That sounds like a hidden tautology-by-definition. What is happiness? That which people act to obtain. Why do people act? To obtain happiness. Whatever someone does, you can say after the fact that they did it to make themselves happy.

Comment author: Bound_up 10 March 2015 05:22:39PM 0 points [-]

I think Plastic's got it.

I don't think happiness is defined as whatever people act to obtain. It's something most people fail at with some regularity.

I mean, just look at Elsa, yah?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 March 2015 08:06:26PM 1 point [-]

I mean, just look at Elsa, yah?

Er, Elsa? Um, what?

Comment author: Bound_up 11 March 2015 08:24:51PM 0 points [-]

Precisely!

Full of noble desires, and of self-destructive means to achieve them.

Her efforts for happiness are wonderfully demonstrative of the failure systemic to like efforts conceived in ignorance.

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