If that maximized pleasure and minimized pain then sure perhaps that would be a good idea.

Doesn't seem like I'd want that however.

If that causes you pain then you can do something else that makes you happy.

What would make me happy is being emperor of Europe.

Or maybe ruling some third world country as a neocolonial filibustering despot.

Thats not the point.

I have more preferences than pain or pleasure.

If you take pleasure and pain as every will and preference then it is my belief that basically every ideology can be reduced to that.

Whatever. Let me better ask you what maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain looks like to you

I am talking about this because it is a core feature of my worldview.

Sure I will answer that.

I could tell.

The political positions I support are designed to maximize pleasure and minimize pain for all people.

I could do a long explanation of what this looks like on each individual issue.

We can go with a social issue as that will probably be the simplest.

I could go through another thread of discussion but it is better that I choose the following since it is topical for a schmittian server. Why do you think that you can maximize pleasure for a group without increasing pain for some other?

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I'm going to sleep good night.

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I'm not schmittian but I fw em tho

Goodbye then

"nobody cares" most of you guys sure do seem to care which isn't a bad thing.

Altism

isn't that like a contradiction

no

it didnt rlly make sense tho

idk wat he was referring 2

An good example would be something like a vaccination which causes some slight pain but is beneficial for preventing further pain down the road.

still inflicting pain

Yes it may sound strange but in this case causing pain can significantly lessen pain and give the opportunity for more pleasure in the future.

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it doesn't sound strange at all, it just sounds strange within your moral framework

It really shouldn't. My approach seeks to minimize pain and maximize pleasure. Sometimes as is the case with the vaccination causing some slight pain minimizes pain enough to be useful.

if pain can be beneficial and pleasure harmful, that should point towards a more fundamental value than pleasure vs. pain

Pain is useful when it maximizes pleasure to a great enough extent in the long term. Pleasure can be bad if it increased pain to greater degree in the long term.

This still follows my original idea as it minimizes pain and maximizes pleasure in the long term

what if maximising pleasure is a self-detonating concept because you need psychologically to feel pain, and only feeling pleasure numbs your ability to feel pleasure

Well in that case their is a lack of pleasure and likely some pain involved meaning that I would not want that to happen.