To be happy is no more and no less than experiencing pleasant bodily sensations.
Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are made happy by one thing and one thing only – pleasant sensations in their bodies. A person who just won the lottery or found new love and jumps from joy is not really reacting to the money or the lover. She is reacting to various hormones coursing through her bloodstream, and to the storm of electric signals flashing between different parts of her brain
Since our biochemistry limits the volume and duration of these sensations, the only way to make people experience a high level of happiness over an extended period of time is to manipulate their biochemical system.
Claiming then right to be happy means claiming the right to be unhappy. It means claiming the right to be sick, to grow old and ugly, to have syphilis and cancer, etc...[1]
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