So,
I have all kinds of ideas running around my head like 3-year olds on a sugar rush. Sadly, none of which that would like interest anyone but me but that's completely beside the point.
Like this blog.
Zactly.
One of the criticisms of Utilitarianism (again, like you care but anyway . . .) was that the meaning of life was happiness, or at the very least, the minimization of pain. Detractors said that this reduced man's life to a similar level as a pig. According to Utilitarianism, a man who gave in to his base pleasures would be living a moral life.
Mill responded that man was capable of greater happiness than just base pleasures. Accomplishments, charity, imagination, and such. The ability to think and reason beyond mere existence opened up new paths to a better quality of happiness. The detractors stated that a man could still choose to be ignorant and happy looking no further than the bar on the way home from work and the chance to get lucky. Mill responded that anyone who has truly experienced the higher quality of happiness would never willingly choose the lower path (although circumstance might take a person there).
What do you think?
Is ignorance bliss? Could you willingly choose ignorance as your way of life?
