Pretty much all the same ways that you measure suffering.
by for instance looking at health and security risks…
What do you mean? A risk isn’t a mental state. A risk is a possibility of something happening. There are many possibilities which clearly increase the chance of people suffering, but the same can be said for happiness.
It is hard to measure my happiness but it is easier to see when I am physically going backwards…
There are certain physical events that clearly cause suffering, but the same can be said about happiness.
Because that would be fairly, consistantly visible whereas a moment of happiness does not reflect ones entire state of being at all.
I’m not really sure what you mean.
Furthermore, how are you donating to increase happiness?
Well I don’t. But avoiding existential risk is one way.
I believe I am talking about physical suffering and you are looking at it more as mental suffering. I thus stated that security risks increase physical suffering and are thus easier to measure than for instance, ones mental state and furthermore, happiness…
Avoiding existential risk is something that could make me personally more happy but I doubt that people, whom are not even thinking about these matters, would be more happy. (unless you argue that staying alive results in having the possibility to obtain happiness)
I meant to say that one moment, burst of happiness doesn’t reflect on how one generally feels, consistantly day by day, year by year and is therefore hard to measure.
Pretty much all the same ways that you measure suffering.
What do you mean? A risk isn’t a mental state. A risk is a possibility of something happening. There are many possibilities which clearly increase the chance of people suffering, but the same can be said for happiness.
There are certain physical events that clearly cause suffering, but the same can be said about happiness.
I’m not really sure what you mean.
Well I don’t. But avoiding existential risk is one way.
I believe I am talking about physical suffering and you are looking at it more as mental suffering. I thus stated that security risks increase physical suffering and are thus easier to measure than for instance, ones mental state and furthermore, happiness…
Avoiding existential risk is something that could make me personally more happy but I doubt that people, whom are not even thinking about these matters, would be more happy. (unless you argue that staying alive results in having the possibility to obtain happiness)
I meant to say that one moment, burst of happiness doesn’t reflect on how one generally feels, consistantly day by day, year by year and is therefore hard to measure.