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TheOtherDave comments on Parenting and Happiness - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: jkaufman 03 October 2012 01:43PM

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Comment author: Decius 05 October 2012 02:49:50AM 2 points [-]

What do you want more than you want to be happy? I can understand "I think that a frontal lobotomy would end 'me', and I don't care about the creature that will occupy my body after I die in such a manner.", but that's different in a very key way from what you said.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 02:54:32AM 2 points [-]

What do you want more than you want to be happy?

I can't speak for Emile, but... are you suggesting that there's nothing you would choose over your own happiness?