Would you rather be happy than right?

Simple enough question. And just to be clear, you're expressing a preference. I know the two aren't always mutually exclusive so there's no need to point that out

 

I want to be right, but it's sort of pointless because no matter how right you are you're still worm food when u die. Right and happy are often two polar opposite answers of the same question. Not a trivia question, but a question as to what you believe and how you want to live your life. Beliefs are a funny thing though. It's tough to make yourself believe something that you know to be false. Some people can. I can't. I guess I'd rather be happy but i rationally can't.

 

Yeah, it's kinda which one you'd settle for if you had to choose. I'll be honest, I think if it came to a choice I could live with being wrong.

 

red or blue pill

 

What if being happy = being right?

 

Well quite. I always thought the moral message of The Matrix was a little sketchy in that respect. You should want to leave the Matrix, and if you want to go back into the Matrix, that's bad because... well, because the guys who left the Matrix kill you if you do? I know that's not exactly how it happened, but they pretty much failed spectacularly to illustrate the downside of taking the "bad" pill by just insisting that the good guys are the good guys and anything they do becomes "good" by default.

 

One person's right may be another person's wrong. Its a battle that cannot be won.

Personal happiness is exclusive property of the beholder. It can't be judged as right or wrong by another.


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I don't get what that has to do with this, really. It's nothing to do with a person's happiness being somehow right or wrong, it's more the old "ignorance is bliss" angle. I suppose if you don't believe that there's any non-subjective reality then you don't believe one can be right about anything, but even then, one is faced with the option of accepting a consensus view of reality or insisting upon one's own (if one's own differs).

 

Read my post slower.

There's no such thing as right because it's not a fixed point. It will always fluxuate according to opinion. Even one's own personal opinion. Therefore happiness based on the view that one is "right', will always be fleeting.

A consensus view of reality is yours only if you subscribe to it. I cancelled my subscription a long time ago.

Happiness come from within. External stimuli only reveals it to you.


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Yyyyyyeah. I kinda just wanted to know what your answer to the question was really. I mean, if you don't believe in rightness, I'm guessing you'd rather be happy, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.

 

My happiness comes from knowing that right and wrong do not exist except in the human theater.

Outside of that, I'm free.

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So it doesn't matter to you whether what you "know" is right or wrong?

Fine, that's all I needed to hear.

 

i'd pop the red one and sniff the blue one.

if i'm wrong, i'm not happy. so being right must make me happy, right?

 

I don't really care much whether I'm right or wrong, but my happiness is paramount. being right is highly overrated, and being wrong isn't anywhere near as bad as some people seem to think it is.

 

nice. i mean, you must be doing something right if you're mostly happy.

so long as you don't go around making other people miserable to get your happy fix, keep up the good work.

 

Often being right is what justifies one's happiness. If I could be totally happy with being wrong, I would be. If being happy is wrong, then I don't want to be right

(Un)fortunately, there is no single correctness when it comes to that which can bring the most happiness in life. However, when it comes to philosophy, maybe being happy is the most important part.

For more worldly issues of right and wrong, you can't spend your whole life thinking the world is flat, of course.

 

"the ego would rather be right than at peace"
was this thread inspired by eckhart tolle?
anyways, yeah i'd rather be at peace than worrying about my own righteousness.

 

When im right, im happy.