happiness in The Knight

James Wynn · 21 Feb 2005, 04:06 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Mon Feb 21 04:06:09 2005
Subject: (urth) happiness in The Knight
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>Ah! Finally, someone wonders whether I was playing word-games.
>The answer is: I don't think so.
>[...]
>Do well-adjusted people molest and bully others?

What is your definition of "well-adjusted"? The word implies an objective
goal to which one would "adjust". Depending on one's criteria, a
well-adjusted person might bully and molest. Saddam seems to have adjusted
Uday and Qusay to do that.

It is difficult for me to see how the happiness of tsunami victims on the
other side of the planet sharing few of my genes would affect my happiness
in an evolutionary sense.

~ Crush

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