>I don't like working, and I like smoking crack. You're saying that my path to happiness?
From the standpoint of immediacy, it absolutely can be.
From a medium to long term standpoint, the path this presents may or may not be a happy one (I posit that happiness is a process and not a resting state), which is highly dependent upon your circumstances.
If you're fabulously wealthy, smoking crack all day for the rest of your life might be a very happy path.
If you're not, there are likely some bumps along that path which could negatively impact one's happiness.
Your "argument" attempts to conflate the travails of a tiny minority (those whose lives are negatively impacted by substance use issues) of us as a major component of the process called "happiness."
Which is unfortunate, as there's (as has been mentioned elsewhere here) that hedonistic activities (like smoking crack) are certainly on the same spectrum as eudaimonic activities (like working at a job you find fulfilling) and are, in their effects, quite similar.
Yes, I do realize your "argument" is a straw man specifically designed with all sorts of baggage to placate folks into not looking too closely at that "argument."
From the standpoint of immediacy, it absolutely can be.
From a medium to long term standpoint, the path this presents may or may not be a happy one (I posit that happiness is a process and not a resting state), which is highly dependent upon your circumstances.
If you're fabulously wealthy, smoking crack all day for the rest of your life might be a very happy path.
If you're not, there are likely some bumps along that path which could negatively impact one's happiness.
Your "argument" attempts to conflate the travails of a tiny minority (those whose lives are negatively impacted by substance use issues) of us as a major component of the process called "happiness."
Which is unfortunate, as there's (as has been mentioned elsewhere here) that hedonistic activities (like smoking crack) are certainly on the same spectrum as eudaimonic activities (like working at a job you find fulfilling) and are, in their effects, quite similar.
Yes, I do realize your "argument" is a straw man specifically designed with all sorts of baggage to placate folks into not looking too closely at that "argument."
I'm sorry I'm unable to be placated thusly.