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RE: What Does Happiness Mean To You?

in #life8 years ago

It's clear you aren't open to a real discussion about this, so this will be my last comment.

Happiness isn't about the immediate and instant achievement of every value one holds. Does the person in your example hold only one value? What has made that person happy if their value of education isn't being completely fulfilled? Any number of other values, or the partial achievement of them.

No doubt they can learn things on their own through experimentation. They might have watched someone else dancing and imitated the motions, now learning the dance. Or any of their numerous other values could be fulfilled, making them happy: things like a healthy family, a roof over their heads, food to eat, money to be earned, and so on.

I offered you an objective definition of happiness; you refused it. I'm not arguing that peoples values are subjective (most of them are). But I am arguing that happiness, as a state of being, has a very simple, objective definition.