Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for July 21, 2015
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Transcript:
If there were a machine you could step in, which gave you constant but false sense of pleasure for the rest of your life, would you do it? Absolutely not! It's always better to experience life as it is. Okay. Suppose you could take your nemesis Jenny and put her in the machine. Would you do it? No! Why would I put my enemy and a pleasure machine? Because you said real life was necessarily preferable to the machine. By your logic, putting her in the machine causes her harm. Can we put poison oak in the pleasure machine? Not if you want to be philosophically consistent. I contain multitudes.
Ida No over 9 years ago
Life is difficult. Don’t make things worse by artificially making them better!
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago
That depends…Would this machine be bi-pedal and have opposable thumbs?
What? Me worried ? over 9 years ago
Sorry people but this was done way back in" Sleeper" ! The orgasmatron I believe ! Or there was the "Excessive machine in Barberella !(Jane broke the sucker )
Stephen Gilberg over 9 years ago
How can a sense of pleasure be false? How can you think you’re happy when you’re not?