Suicide?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You have to be alive to experience happiness, though. Those who commit suicide don't want to bring happiness, they just want to end the sadness.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It could be, but again, you have to be alive to experience happiness. So killing yourself doesn't actually bring happiness, it just ends pain. Also, most religious people believe that suicide is a sin anyway.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I guess you're right. It all really boils down to what the person is thinking. Some may believe they'll have happiness afterwards, while others just want to end the pain that they're experiencing then.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Murdering others? Pouring acid on yourself, purposely getting fat, not doing homework knowing your teacher will yell at you.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Many killers/serial killers are sadists, meaning they get pleasure from other people's pain. Pouring acid on yourself would either be an accident or a masochist, meaning they get pleasure from their pain. Purposely getting fat could be seen as survival as you'd be able to live longer without food. Not doing homework would be accepting that you'll get yelled at in exchange for doing someone more pleasurable at the moment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Murdering others could be for happiness if they were that huge a pain in the ass, or for vengeance, which is satisfaction, which is happiness. A psycho would probably also do it for direct happiness because he's crazy and that's how he thinks. Survival could be if it were self defense, or an adrenaline residue from self-defense that made you go too far. If you poured acid on yourself, it would be if you were a masochist-happiness or to see what it was like-satisfaction-happiness, or if someone forced you to do it. To force you to, there would be a threat or literal forcing of the hand. If he threatened you life, it was for survival, if you children, survival of species, if it was an object, you thought that object would bring more happiness than an intact body. If it were money, it could also be survival. For purposely getting fat, it could also be to know what it's like, so same as acid. If you ate a lot and didn't exercise, eating makes you happy and not exercising is in favour of doing something that does make you happier than exercising. Not doing homework was to do something more enjoyable, thus, happiness.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If someone forced your hand, it's their action, not yours. Accidents don't count because they're not really your actions either.

by Anonymous 11 years ago