Death And Hedonism

Nov 09, 2007 01:10

Hedonism is an ideology, one of the 3 rare ideologies (the other 2 being individual autonomism and precisionism). Hedonism is the ideology in which suffering is minimized and pleasure is increased. Hedonism is similar to the far-leftist ideology (called 'liberal' in the United States), which may be called 'equalism', because hedonism includes ( Read more... )

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saintofkizzles November 9 2007, 08:46:02 UTC
Hi. Nibble my sack plz. Thanks.

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Re : "Death and Hedonism" the_hedonist2 October 2 2010, 20:00:41 UTC
You've misrepresented hedonism (although it's refreshing that not everyone thinks hedonism is an egoistic lust for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll ). Hedonism is simply the belief that happiness is the only thing that is intrinsically valuable and suffering is the only thing that is intrinsically dis-valuable, therefore, actions should be considered moral only if it minimizes/increases aggregate suffering and happiness. Hedonists do not support or reject any specific policy, they simply base their arguments for or against any action on the likeliness of it minimizing stress/increasing happiness.

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Re: Re : "Death and Hedonism" the_hedonist2 October 2 2010, 20:02:40 UTC
P.S

Hedonists believe that the happiness and suffering of all sentient beings is equally valuable and dis-valuable since no one being's happiness/stress can be considered qualitatively more positive or negative. For this reason, hedonists believe that the interests of all beings deserve equal consideration and respect.

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