happiness-pill.txt be happy without any side effects, with a magic pill

Original Author: Sahil Gautam <printfdebugging@gmail.com>
Homepage: <https://printfdebugging.in/>
License: GNU GPL v2

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CONTENTS

    0. Context                                          happiness-pill-context
    1. If There Were a PILL                           if-happiness-pill-exists
    2. The PILL Exists                                   happiness-pill-exists
    3. Creating a Happiness Scale                              happiness-scale

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Context                                                 happiness-pill-context

    recently i watched an anime where a scientist created a happiness pill
    which makes you feel good without any side effects. it was very cheap and
    within days it was in circulation throughout the world, everyone was using
    it.

    then after a few months the scientist goes in hiding, and a few years
    later he makes a public brodcast about "the pill was a mistake, disturbing
    the natural order" and everyone who consumed it will die in 30 days. he
    said that he has the antidote and they have 30 days to find him.

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If There Were a PILL                                  if-happiness-pill-exists

    if such a pill existed today, would you use it? majority of the population
    would use it, it makes you happy without side effects, what's wrong in
    that! most people would believe in what the capitalists tell them, but
    will they ever tell the truth if they can make a lot of money without
    doing so?

    let's say you were using those pills, and you got to know about this
    anime... will you stop using the pills from now on? how would you go back
    into your old life from which you ran away with the help of these pills.

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The PILL Exists                                          happiness-pill-exists

    entertainment platforms, fancy supermalls, smartphones and reels, tasty
    packaged food, chocolates, pornography, anime, songs, political
    propoganda, cricket (now a days), betting and gambling... how are these
    any different from the happiness PILL... these are no different.

    and like the happiness pill, we are "unaware" of the consequences.
    of-course we know these are bad, but we don't have any idea of "how bad",
    atleast the packaging and the easy availability doesn't hint on that side.

    cigarette boxes make it pretty clear, they show "what will become of you"
    but there's no scale like smoke 5 and you die as you finish the 5th one.
    similarly there is no scale for good things, which make people do those
    things as a compulsion from within e.g. "run 2km everyday and your body
    will be healthy till you live".

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Creating a Happiness Scale                                     happiness-scale

    so i decided to create a happiness scale, one which classifies various
    activities as "worth it" or "dangerous" based on side-effect analysis both
    at present and in future.

    it also considers various parmeters involved in the act itself, like
        - how addictive the activity is
        - should reasoning be considered while tempted for that act
        - present gains/pains from the act
        - future gains/pains from the act
        - steps to take to during the act

    whenever we are tempted to take one of the happiness pills, mentioned in
    happiness-pill-exists, the brain stops working and it becomes hard to
    reason out of the situation. sometimes reasoning leads to the pill, the
    mind plays tricks to get what it wants. in such cases, this happiness
    scale will help us jump to well thought conclusions, where we can just
    trust it and do what it says.

    for that, one has to sit down and make a happiness scale of their own and
    on a weekly or fortnightly basis rerview the terms, how was the last week,
    is some calculation off in the scale...

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