Fucking with the pleasure center of your brain is very dangerous. Because if you succeed, you may not have enough motivation to do anything else. After all, you'd be as happy as you could possibly be, why do anything else ever except continue to stimulate it?
...So what? If you make yourself extremely happy, and end up losing all motivation, why is that a bad thing? You don't need to do anything, because you do things to make yourself happy, and you're already at maximal happiness, so there's no need to do anything. This is really only a circular tautology that you choose to give meaning because it's unusual; There's nothing illogical here, unless you don't value happiness as the only real goal in your philosophy (at which point we can't discuss it because we subscribe to conflicting philosophies).
That said, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. If you succeed, your brain eventually compensates for the increased level of happiness, essentially making you depressed if you go off the happiness, and normal otherwise. And possibly something about degrading your brain if you keep yourself overloaded with happiness neurotransmitters for a long time. This is why a utilitarian philosophy won't break down until we design computers that can feel happiness.
Theoretically, there's a middle ground where you can make yourself happy often enough and long enough to generally have an overall happier life, but not quite often/long enough to have harmful effects come in. Even if no such middle ground exists and it's always perfectly balanced (which, considering some people are depressed and others aren't, it
isn't), you'd realize that genitals are
still useless because each time you orgasmed that would adjust your brain to be marginally less happy the rest of the time.
Congratulations, you found one of my favourite philosophy subjects.
They may prefer genemods. That IVAN treatment is especially tantalizing I would imagine.
I'd counter that the IVAN treatment costs five tokens more than the HRB, requires rolls to be effective, and is
still less effective at keeping you alive. Can IVAN survive a nuke at point-blank 100% of the time?
That said, other genemods
are useful, although arguably only because we haven't designed mechanical equivalents. And you're very correct about blops.
"...and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts."
That is an excellent quote, and an infinitely frustrating one. I'd sig it myself, if Pyro hadn't already taken it. You'd think me and Pyro would get along better...
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