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adjl posted...

Literally anything fun? Sure, that can be framed as avoiding the negative experience that would be their absence, but that experience can only be defined as negative by identifying them as a desirable state, so you'd be relying on extremely circular logic to do so.

I'm not saying desirable states don't exist, only that they are desirable only because of the baseline negative that is life, even life in a well off 1st world country. Everything that is fun or good in life is simply a short break from this negativity, a gasp of air before our heads are plunged under the cold water once more.

There is actually a deeper level to this particular part of the problem of life in that all the good and bad we do experience are byproducts of the brain running its program. It's a whole can of worms so I won't get to get too deep into it now, but consider that there is no real reason any of us need to feel that baseline negative I mentioned. We don't necessarily have to feel hunger when our stomachs are empty or pain when we cut ourselves, these negative sensations are created purely by the brain in order to make us act a certain way, in the examples above to eat and to avoid injury. The reason the brain does this is to keep us alive, but to what end?