DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agoIf your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareIf your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepsycho_driver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·12 days agoHappiness is a release of chemicals to receptors in your brain. If doing something makes you happy, then it makes you happy.
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoDoes using drugs count as true happiness then? Why doesn’t everyone just use drugs to be happy forever?
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·12 days agoWell yes, that’s why people do drugs. Usually doing it forever runs up against other problems like paying for it, holding down a job or health problems
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-212 days agodrugs only make you feel happy when you first start, eventually you use them to not feel bad also when you have a heart attack and almost die and are crippled for life: that’s sad basically, they only work temporarily and overall makes shit worse
minus-squarepsycho_driver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 days agoWhy else would people use drugs? The problem is that the side effects from drugs tend to increase unhappiness when you’re not on them.
minus-squarelol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-212 days ago Why doesn’t everyone just use drugs to be happy forever? I know this is c/nostupidquestions, but surely you can come up with an answer for that one yourself. Why are you not shooting up heroin right now?
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 days ago Why are you not shooting up heroin right now? You make a good point. I now know what I’m doing today!
Happiness is a release of chemicals to receptors in your brain. If doing something makes you happy, then it makes you happy.
Does using drugs count as true happiness then? Why doesn’t everyone just use drugs to be happy forever?
Well yes, that’s why people do drugs.
Usually doing it forever runs up against other problems like paying for it, holding down a job or health problems
drugs only make you feel happy when you first start, eventually you use them to not feel bad
also when you have a heart attack and almost die and are crippled for life: that’s sad
basically, they only work temporarily and overall makes shit worse
Why else would people use drugs? The problem is that the side effects from drugs tend to increase unhappiness when you’re not on them.
I know this is c/nostupidquestions, but surely you can come up with an answer for that one yourself. Why are you not shooting up heroin right now?
You make a good point. I now know what I’m doing today!