In other words, your brain is conditioned to seek pleasure from pain which is purely sadistic. Also in your last paragraph, you mentioned that you seek risk taking, and this is another aspect of hedonistic tendency called adrenaline rush. is detrimental for the psyche and well-being for an individual. Too much pain, in other words, suffering or stress. Similarly, we honor soldiers who gave their lives in battle although they suffered a tremendous amount of pain. Also, if someone, a firefighter or police officer for instance, gives up his life in an act of self-sacrifice in order to save the life of another, I think that we would all agree that he did the right thing, even though it brought about a great deal of pain. Just because it feels good to the killer does not mean that it is right. So, it is impossible to have some types of pleasure without experiencing pain.Ī hedonistic slogan that we often hear in our modern society is, "if it feels good, then it must be right." However, we would all agree that if a serial killer gets sadistic pleasure out of torturing his victims, and this would be wrong. If you drink yourself into oblivion, you will be nursing a hangover the next day. For instance, if you overdose on drugs, you could find yourself in the hospital. There is also a cost to unrestrained pleasure seeking. Either way, we will never, never be satisfied.
On the other hand, if we achieve all of the pleasure that we want, we will become bored. The more we seek pleasure and fail to achieve it, the more we bring pain into our lives. If you seek pleasure your entire life, you're going to come to what some have called the "hedonistic paradox." That is, if the hedonist fails to achieve the measure of pleasure that he seeks, he experiences frustration, which is painful. While we all enjoy pleasure in life, we have to realize that this philosophy is incredibly inconsistent. But it takes time, money, and knowledge to do it right. You can experience high levels of pleasure with little risk and no deterioration if you're careful.
That's how I try to live my life and when I'm successful I feel very happy. In other words figuring out how to get the most pleasure with the least necessary pain. That makes sense, but a more practical definition of hedonism would be maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Completely avoiding pain decreases existing pleasures and prevents people from discovering new ones.
GiraffeEars is saying that the article's definition of hedonism is self-defeating.
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