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Old 06-30-2008, 08:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default It's all about pleasure/pain

I saw this being mentioned by some technical/natural sciences people when they were talking about the psychology/nature of humans. A very simple "theory". I'll use my own words to make a definition:

Everything/anything a person does is either to maximize the pleasure or to reduce pain or a combination of both.

At first sight it seems like a true statement to me, haven't really thought about it very much tho.
What do you think?


BTW, I think that philosophically it could be debated heavily, due to potentially unclear definitions of pleasure/pain.
But I'd rather stay "common sensish" on this one.
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