[chezlaw]

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First of all, if you think I have misinterpreted something (which I of course very well may have done), could you please inform me how or in what way? You saying so doesn't help much.

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If you think DS is asking if you prefer to do what you prefer to do then you've wrong. I'll leave DS to exlain why if he wants to. Or he could say that that is the exciting question he was posing [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Second of all, your example about getting a morphine high is not an example of anything. Why would you ever not choose to hook yourself up to this machine if you thought it would give you the most happiness? You claim that you wouldn't, and I simply don't believe it. In case you don't hook yourself up to this machine, I think it can only be because you actually don't think it will give you the most happiness (i.e. you find some negative value in becoming a drug addict).

The simple fact is that it is given in this question what option people actually prefer, and for some reason you seem to find it difficult to choose this option.

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You may not believe it but it proves your logical fallacy wasn't. I believe many people would refuse it for the same reason they wouldn't all rush out and get frontal lobotomies if it was proven that being lobotimised would made them happy.

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Regarding #2, where you wrote "No we aren't. At least I'm not, you may be.":
Obviously you are using a computer (which is packed with different toxic substances that eventually will end up in your body to some extent).
Your computer uses electricity (which pushes us all nicely closer to global warming).
I guess you at some point have used a car, boat, airplane ... I hope you get the drift.
So without a doubt are you choosing to contribute to this problem (just as I am), unless you claim that you remove as much or more toxic substances from our environment than you put in it.

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Are you suggesting that the best way to look after future generations is for all of us to stop doing anything? people like me using computers etc has led and will continue to lead to innovations from which future generations will benefit greatly.

chez