• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.

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        12 hours ago

        If maximising pleasure is left, to maximise suffering is right-wing or just bdsm?

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      22 hours ago

      The only caveat I’d add is that it’s long term pleasure so you don’t fall into local maximums. A heroin addiction is a great way to maximize pleasure short term.

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        17 hours ago

        I feel that is implicit on maximising pleasure. To have little treats often, while also keeping yourself alive so you can have more little treats.

        If I died tomorrow from an OD I would not have maximised pleasure in my life. Because I would have ended it early.

        But if I lived constantly denying myself every single pleasure and creature comfort because ‘I need to earn it’, I would also not be maximising pleasure in my life.

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          17 hours ago

          You feel it’s implicit in the wording, but that’s just your interpretation of the phrase, which is why it’s important to specify.