Bound_up comments on Disguised Queries - Less Wrong

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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.