zodiac20 Mar 2006

Yes, but that's what I'm saying. A chemical reaction making you happy still leaves you, well, happy. Yes, it's just a brain reaction, even under the best circumstances. So?

If you mean why should I worry about anything beyond my own life like my wife's happiness, well, that's the clincher. On the most basic level, I worry about my wife's happiness because she makes me happy and I want to protect my arrangement with her. Is there more level? Maybe! Who cares?

If you mean why am I not just a nihilist and fuckall -- well, just because I'm interested in my own happiness on earth and don't believe a God is keeping score to let me in heaven, that doesn't mean I have to fuck up other people's lives. My personal experience is fucking up people's lives doesn't make me very happy, and that they have a right to be happy as much as I do, to say nothing of the possibility that my fucking up their lives will cause them to kill me or something. It's all very social-contracty, you see?