Firstly happiness is a combination of many things. A fair bit of that is pleasant sensations. Not in pain. Nice food. Comfortable. Pretty surroundings …
It’s an average, not an and gate, so you can still be happy with some things not great, if the rest are good.
Secondly, a lot of people don’t want responsibility. Ie prospective parents who aren’t sure if they want the responsibility. People often want to escape their responsibilities.
Thirdly, I am not responsible for global steel production. Do I have any reason to want some other humans to have that responsibility over no one having it? No, not really. Who holds responsibility in todays world. A few rich and powerful people. But mostly responsibility is held by paperwork monstrosities, where each person just follows arcane bureaucratic rules.
You’re totally right about all this! But still many people do want responsibility to some extent—and re: paperwork monstrosities, this is objectively abnormal for the human race; civilization is utterly alien to our evolved context, and imo mostly a bad thing. The only good thing that’s come out of it is technology, and of that, only medical and agricultural technology is really purely good. People in the state of nature have responsibility roughly evenly distributed among the tribe members, though with more among those who are older or considered more expert in some way.
Firstly happiness is a combination of many things. A fair bit of that is pleasant sensations. Not in pain. Nice food. Comfortable. Pretty surroundings …
It’s an average, not an and gate, so you can still be happy with some things not great, if the rest are good.
Secondly, a lot of people don’t want responsibility. Ie prospective parents who aren’t sure if they want the responsibility. People often want to escape their responsibilities.
Thirdly, I am not responsible for global steel production. Do I have any reason to want some other humans to have that responsibility over no one having it? No, not really. Who holds responsibility in todays world. A few rich and powerful people. But mostly responsibility is held by paperwork monstrosities, where each person just follows arcane bureaucratic rules.
You’re totally right about all this! But still many people do want responsibility to some extent—and re: paperwork monstrosities, this is objectively abnormal for the human race; civilization is utterly alien to our evolved context, and imo mostly a bad thing. The only good thing that’s come out of it is technology, and of that, only medical and agricultural technology is really purely good. People in the state of nature have responsibility roughly evenly distributed among the tribe members, though with more among those who are older or considered more expert in some way.