Re: "feels good" is inherently meaningful

From: David Picon Alvarez (eleuteri@myrealbox.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 17:04:08 MDT


> > > But it IS in the nature of human beings to live out the happiness
> > principle.
> >
> > And suicide bombers are left as an exercise for the reader. For that
matter
> > all soldiers.
>
> Because self sacrifice (not necessarily fatal) is the ultimate pleasure.

I believe you will find out that if you ask a statistically significant
proportion of soldiers in modern history (mercenaries are another story)
they'd tell you they're not happy soldiering.

--David.



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