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Reigning_King posted...

Eating fresh bread is more rewarding than eating stale bread because the brain knows that the fresh bread is "better" in that it is less likely to have any complications like mold spores or being difficult to digest.

So now you're not even citing actual harm, you're relying on the brain subconsciously perceiving harm and thereby assigning greater positive feelings to something that better avoids that.

Reigning_King posted...

So say you have a beggar in some filthy slum in some war torn 3rd world country who is blind and missing both his legs but has been in his position for so long and so many of the people who have been around him his whole life are also in awful positions or even worse ones that he doesn't see his lot as particularly bad... you would say that he honestly wouldn't be better off with his sight, legs, and money?

"Not suffering" and "not having room to improve" are two very, very different things. Winning a million dollars is not suffering, but I'd still be better off if I won $2 million.

The position you're trying to argue seems to amount to "everyone's life sucks and if they think it doesn't it's because their brain has tricked them into enjoying their Sisyphean struggle against their inevitable suffering and death," which is an utterly useless way to look at anything. Yes, you can find measurable harm and negativity in everyone's life if you take a sufficiently vague, high-level approach to it. Nobody cares. Nobody is actually unhappy because sometimes they need to poop. The idea that they ought to be is thoroughly ridiculous.

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