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

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Comment author: Emile 05 October 2012 08:16:15AM 3 points [-]

Even if it was still "me" (say if you dropped the lobotomy part, but could still convince me that such a life would make me happier), I still wouldn't want it not approve of it.

See Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone).

Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2012 11:29:20PM 3 points [-]

Maybe we should taboo “happiness” without adjectives and always precede it by “hedonic” or “eudaimonic”, because I think people usually start to talk at cross purposes during discussions like this one.