(July 2, 2014 at 11:52 am)Mozart Link Wrote:Why is losing pleasure the worst thing? You keep saying it is, but not why it is. And if it is, why does having more pleasure make you a better a person? As opposed to just a happier one?(July 2, 2014 at 10:27 am)Jenny A Wrote: Loosing all pleasure in life would be horrific. Loosing all intelligence would be horrific. Your point?No, losing all pleasure in life would be MUCH more horrific than losing all parts of your brain combined. Since losing pleasure is the worst thing, then that obviously means this is the best part of the brain and for you to lose that would indeed make you an "inferior" person.
And given just how horrible it would be to loose either all your pleasure in life or all your intellectual faculties, I fail to see how a comparison between the two possibilities is relevant. Either one would ultimately be fatal. All pleasure no intellect would lead to starvation or death by bus shortly. All intellect no pleasure might lead to the same.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
