It doesn't matter whether they say they want to be happy, happiness is an objectively preferable state. If this article is accurate, then their beliefs about why happiness isn't preferable is based on incorrect beliefs, anyway.
happiness is an objectively preferable state
I don't quite understand this. What do you mean by "objectively" and preferable by whom?
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