If you ask parents what they want for their kids, many will say "I just want them to be happy." But there are drugs that achieve this, and taking them results in disaster. So that is probably not what we should want.
(Thanks to @moigottweets for pointing this out to me.)
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I don’t think there are drugs that actually make people happy
Regardless of whether what drugs make you feel is true happiness, if there were a drug that could make you feel it, it would be just as disastrous to take it.
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Sounds like the drug Soma in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Adam Smith wrote that people are looking to be loved and to be lovely. Cc
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Reminds me of Brave New World, where soma is a happiness drug that is pretty crucial to the culture of keeping everyone in their stratified society peaceful and content
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I want them to aim to be the best they can be.
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I must quote the great Fontanarrosa here. One time he was asked what he wanted for his kids and he answered: “That his friends smile when they see him coming.” <3 Have a great weekend.
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mdma does a pretty good at this and has been used heavily to help patients with ptsd and other psychological disorders
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If there were a drug that fully and truly maximized well-being in the long-term, what reason would there be not to take it. (The point is that no drug does or ever could do this)
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By all accounts, heroin is that drug. And it is disastrous. I agree that wishing for "happiness" above all else is hedonism in disguise. For success; narcissism (or perhaps an imagined precursor to happiness). Probably a good answer is "fulfillment"; aka time well spent.
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I’m pretty sure there are drugs that can make you short term (hours) happy, with the trade off of median to long term (months or years) unhappy. What you want 4 kids is long term, sustainable happy, which drugs are not good for, but rather detrimental.
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Long term and sustainable happy is not = happy all the time, but rather holistically happy, which is harder to understand and define.
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