Having no acceptable choices is what drives people to desperate actions, like suicide, and the immediate mandatory crunchy happiness without an outlet seems like a novice mistake for a utilitarian, something SHs would certainly recognize and avoid.
Having no acceptable choices drives humans to suicide. It's already been shown that SHs aren't perfect at predicting human psychology, and they may not have seen that.
Today's post, Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) was originally published on 04 February 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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