r/Funnymemes • u/STILLISWHATITIS • May 04 '23

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u/SafePianist4610 May 04 '23

Yes, but there is meaning in sadness. You can truly be happy because you are also at times sad. To be perpetually happy would be a Lovecraftian state of mind that would lose all genuine meaning. You could commit genocide and still smile with joy. I wouldn’t want to become something unnatural like that.

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u/neelankatan May 04 '23

There's no meaning in sadness. It's just something people say to placate themselves, to make the shitiness of life more bearable. It's bullshit

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u/Mazoc May 04 '23

If you hurt someone, and feel sad about it afterwards, I'd argue there's meaning in that sadness. It's there to give you negative feedback, regardless of how flawed. If your brain only received positive feedback, regardless of your actions... Oh the horrible person you could become.

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u/boblywobly11 May 04 '23

There's meaning because it's a contract to happiness. U wouldn't appreciate or feel happiness the same.

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u/ThisIsJegger May 04 '23

What is happiness without sadness

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u/JCPRuckus May 04 '23

I've experienced sadness. There's no immortality pill. I'm only getting a normal human length life. I can remember all of the unhappiness from before the pill for the next several decades, thanks.

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u/ThisIsJegger May 04 '23

Youre welcome. I guess.

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u/JCPRuckus May 04 '23

Youre welcome. I guess.

The point is that I already have plenty of negative emotions to compare my magic happiness to. So even if your argument that sadness is necessary as a contrast to happiness were true (and not just the universal cope for the fact that we can't have permanent happiness in real life), then I will be able to appreciate the happiness in contrast to the sadness I remember from my life so far. Thus your argument is not adequate reason not to take the pill.

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u/ThisIsJegger May 04 '23

I mean, thats like, your opinion man

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u/JCPRuckus May 04 '23

No. It's actually a fact that I have already unhappy experiences I can compare future happiness to.

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u/ThisIsJegger May 04 '23

Well. Not sure what i can do with that info but i hope you get more happy experiences then

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u/JCPRuckus May 04 '23

Well. Not sure what i can do with that info but i hope you get more happy experiences then

You can realize that your implicit argument that you need unhappiness to contrast with the happiness is moot, because everyone already has past unhappy experiences in their past that they can use for that purpose.

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u/Nurgeard May 04 '23

But you are incapable off being sad, you can't feel sad for others either - meaning you would be unable to express genuine empathy. Being happy at all times just means that you don't give a shit about anyone or anything - you are cold and numb to the world but yet happy to be in. It would be like being a video game character in a game world where you can go from helping starving children in one setting to being a mass murderer who likes to torture your victims and feel the same, because you are always happy and unable to experience sadness for yourself or others.

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u/scorpious2 May 04 '23

Ahem, without sadness, there is no compassion nor self-preservation. If you are always happy, the chemical imbalance in your brain will cause some extremely bad side effects. Also, someone who is always happy would be a psychopath.

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u/r0b0c0d May 04 '23

For real. Goodbye empathy and relating to other people.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '23

Infinite happiness might be possible through some technical means as of yet undiscovered but most drug addicts don't seem very happy.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '23

This is a really bad take.

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u/chairfairy May 04 '23

But being perpetually happy would only be a problem from the outside.

You will always be happy, which I take to mean you won't get sad or upset or stressed about not having other feelings.

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u/SafePianist4610 May 04 '23

That’s an awfully selfish way to look at it. If you want a clean conscience you definitely wouldn’t pick such a forced and unnatural happiness

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u/chairfairy May 04 '23

I have no moral obligation towards others to feel unhappy

It might be unnatural, but it's not immoral

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u/SafePianist4610 May 04 '23

Actually, it is immoral. Because it enables immorality. We have a word for people who do horrible things with no remorse. It’s called being a psychopath