Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Would you opt for a life with no pain? - Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald" video.

I have another thought experiment to consider. An endless pleasure machine would be like a mountain that you're endlessly climbing. You're constantly reaching new heights (if it's working optimally), but each new "high" is only slightly better than the last. Real life is more like an entire mountain range. You have a series of peaks and valleys, with some peaks being extremely high and some valleys being very deep. You will experience a lot more pain, but some of those highs will come very suddenly and be much more dramatic--and rewarding. If you have the lows to compare them to, the highs will be much more satisfying overall than an equivalent high provided by the machine. Using this thought experiment, this is my conclusion: The pleasure machine is a safer bet, but real life might be more rewarding and satisfying in the end. It really comes down to fortune, because man has very little control over his own destiny. We are often incapable of bringing about extremely pleasurable moments based on our own actions. Usually, we just rely on life to throw us the dice. And that's what makes it so great: we weren't expecting it.
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