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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:58 pm
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This is a section from something I wrote today in study hall, it really was just me hurriedly capturing a small portion of my thoughts. I particularly liked these two paragraphs because I thought they could spark some interesting, stimulating, conversation. If you would like to hear the rest of these ramblings, just read my journal every now and again.
One's intellect, if hardly present at all, would limit the abilities and happiness of the individual as a whole. In a given situation, the person of higher intellect could summon more options and a greater number of outcomes, both good and bad, than the person of lower intellect could. This does not happen conciously, it happens simply because that person has the ability to think more deeply about the problem at hand than the other. So with fewer choices, and a tendency to be less able to think deeply about an instance, a person of lower intellect would have limited sucsess. Thus, with limited sucsess comes limited hapiness.
However, how can one truly and acurately measure happiness? If a person of lower intellect has allways had fewer choices than the one of higher, one would think that they could not ever be as happy as the latter. Take a step back and look at it from a different light. The lesser of the two minds makes a decision, which, if the mind had been a bit greater, they would not have made because a different option would have been formed in the mind with a better outcome attached to it, and gotten chosen instead. True, things could have turned out "better" for this person had the thought arose, but if this person has never known anything different, then how can they be any less happy than that person of higher intelect? That said, how could one argue that a more intelligible person's life is better than an unintelligible person's, when both are truly content and happy with their own lives in every way? One will only become unhappy with a decision when they realize that something better could have been acheived.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:04 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:07 pm
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