How to Live a Happy, Pleasurable Life | Philosophy Tube

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   @rubysparx

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   I know this is a ten year old video with roughly 500 comments despite the channel now having 2mil subscribers; but I gotta say, I love this one, I really loved the Opinions presented. When you said “if the person forced onto this drug had no problems with it then yeah we could say that’s a good life for them” something clicked in my brain and went “OH! Like forcefem” and basically any other “forced” thing of that nature. The result is an intrinsic desire (being fem, etc)- so to get to it in a way that’s “out of your control” (forced) seems appealing if you don’t have that “second order desire” of “I don’t want to be forced to do anything” (like I do). It’s stuff I understood but explaining it this way is satisfying like when you first learn sound is created by vibrations

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   @el-chupanibre

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   Ive literally been drinking wine while playing the sims for the last 3 hours… i feel attacked.

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   @DarthBorehd

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   I wouldn't want to live in the Experience Machine because I don't want to not be available for the people I love.

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   @FatCharlie215

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   aaww, It's an Abby egg <3

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   @verydistractedreader

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   As someone with ADHD, this sounds awfully like my brain is forcing the addiction to dopamine, and every time I get some it’s bittersweet because I know I’m just gonna want more soon.

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   @odalicio

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   Baby Hawthorne ❤️

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   @dang1099

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   As a recovering addict who was on methadone for years, talking about forcing someone to take a drug even if it was pleasurable is an interesting thought. I personally decided to get off methadone, because although it was satisfying a desire, it was also not how I wanted to live my life being dependent on it for the rest of my life. Along with the other negatives of traveling and being beholden to the clinic. I had other desires override my feeling of pleasure and satisfaction from the methadone.

   And Abby, you are fucking awesome.

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   @marknugent9851

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   In sociology they speak of back stage and front stage personas, psychology speaks of the real self and the ideal self. There is a tension between these social and psychological states and we suppress our authenticity to achieve social acceptability/an ideal psychological identity.

   This tension creates anxiety.

   Anxiety will always find a way to be released. ALWAYS.

   What horror does is what any tension reliving activity does, it gives us an avenue to release this retroflected anxiety.

   By it screaming at a referee, screaming at a horror movie, screaming while having naughty cuddles with your significant other, the mastery of self writing down our thoughts or a satisfying grunt as you bang and clang weights.

   Horror IMHO is about release, even if it is just dropping the strains of reality for a bit and rewatching your fave slasher film for the iffy dialogue and overacting.

   Also, adrenaline sharpens our senses and that can be enjoyable, the way the mindfulness of being with someone and their body or physical exercise can enhance our senses. Don't believe that? Next time you are feeling low, get up, open that front door and march around your house. Blood pumping? You get that now, right?

   I liked Carl Rogers' description of the good life in his Fully Functioning Person definition.

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   @anjalis4845

   December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

   Thanks Abigail! Was looking for a video on addiction and this was great.

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    @thomasfplm

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    About the machine, if I want to improve the world, it means that I don't want to be tricked into thinking that I'm improving the world.
    By entering into the machine, I'll think I'm helping, and my personal satisfaction would be there, but my actual desire wouldn't be fulfilled.

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    @Massagemkz

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    I think we enjoy horror anyting because it provides a safe environment for us to experience that adrenaline because in her mind can't tell the difference so it's kind of like our safety of having that experience without actually going through the experience

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    @daniel_75820

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    I know I'm five years late, but why no credit to Frankfurt for 6:35?

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    @antispeedrun

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Hard agree.

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    @iknowyouwanttofly

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Is a sect an experince machine? Like the scary movie midsummer?

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    @Mad_S

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    My parents had a strong argument for unexperienced good: "you dont know how good you have it, dont make me give you something to cry about."

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    @JuliaSpeaksWithWords

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Wow. I forgot what your videos used to be like. Your style has changed so much.

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    @coaxill4059

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    It is hilarious that this video requires us to consider a woman that gets extremely turned on when her engine turns over.

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    @orangeninjaMR

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    0:44 "put moral value out of your mind". Is there a reason that moral value can't be addressed within the hedonistic framework you're discussing here?

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    @saikatmazumder9557

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    My way of living a happy life is ingesting your contents like it's my first ever video game and then stealing em to win competitive debate tournaments

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    @m2useinu

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    love will come with pleasure.

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    @professorgrimm4602

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    The thought experiment about the experience machine also provokes the question "What is real?" Because, if the machine makes it so that it is impossible for the person that plugs in to know that it is not real then… well the virtual reality of the machine becomes real, as far as the person that plugged in is considered. It is useless to talk about a reality which one can in no way observe. Reality is relative. For everyone outside of the machine, the outside is reality, for everyone inside the machine, the inside is reality.

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    @rijzone

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    what about flow?

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    @jdjdjsjshxjsjsjs4120

    December 25, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Forcefully making people addicted to drugs that sounds like psychiatry! Some people do live good lives through that system others get torn apart.

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