how do we measure whether we are making the world a better place? are we to gauge it by over all happiness? for instance if we add one more laugh have we succeeded? what if we have to add a hundred cries to get the one more laugh? it hardly sounds like progress to have 20 born to poverty to get one born to luxury and count that as progress.
what if we count happiness divided by people?
forget the obvious torturing Paris Hilton, makes many happy. 1persons increase of pain disappears in the math when its counted in to the millions who would would be more happy. But the real implications of this is simply killing unhappy people also makes the ratio better. we cant count just raising the living standard of someone. because for every person who lives a "standard" north amarican lifestyle we need several in poverty and sweatshops. if we get rid of the sweatshops then we reduce the living standard of us all. i'm being poor to make the world a better place? this sounds wrong as well.
also do we have to adjust this math over time? what if we all have a kick-ass world party tonight. every one has a good time. but tomorrow we are all hung over and in debt and cant afford shoes or medications. (shoes may not sound like such a big deal to you, but its january in canada as i write this, and i aint walking to school barefoot, i just aint!).
what i'm saying is i have questions. will some one please give me the actual data set of what i am to count to make the world a better place? ( and then get the hell out of my way while i commit the atrocious acts required to do that). or will every one just admit that "making the world a better place" is entirely subjective. and if it is just subjective,please tell me how come me making myself happy doesn't count?
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