I see your point. I agree that these people are moving away from a local optimum of happiness by gaining true beliefs.
As to the global optimum, it’s hard to say. I guess it’s plausible that the best of all possible happinesses involves false beliefs. Does it make sense that I have a strong ethical intuition to reject that kind of happiness?
(Anecdotally, I find the more I know about my loved ones’ foibles, the more I look on them fondly as fellow creatures.)
I see your point. I agree that these people are moving away from a local optimum of happiness by gaining true beliefs.
As to the global optimum, it’s hard to say. I guess it’s plausible that the best of all possible happinesses involves false beliefs. Does it make sense that I have a strong ethical intuition to reject that kind of happiness?
(Anecdotally, I find the more I know about my loved ones’ foibles, the more I look on them fondly as fellow creatures.)