No. I won’t push it. Not because of the kids thing, because there is a TON of risk and it will likely be horrible.
1. Doesn’t specify HOW you lose the ability to have kids. There’s more than one way to lose your ability to have kids and some involve losing things you’d probably rather keep even if you didn’t want kids.
2. For the rest of your life. Ominous. You know what could make you happy for the rest of your life? A massive over dose of any number of drugs. You’d be happy… for the rest of your life. All several minutes. It doesn’t say “natural life” or anything that implies the method of happiness won’t kill you or whoever is powering the choice won’t kill you prematurely.
3. You’re happy… for the rest of your life. Even if you don’t get murdered or have your genitals completely removed or whatever else-
That probably isn’t a good thing. Parents, kids, wife die? You’re happy to get the news. You’re at the funeral smiling and cheerful. Get dumped? Happy. Your partner has the worst news of their life? You’re happy. Lose everything and you’re living on the streets? Happy. Being violated? Happy. Not only is that incredibly messed up, it would be extremely socially isolating. Inability to relate to people, peoples inability to relate to you. Likely inability to react appropriately to social norms, and possibly a partial or complete loss of ambition and/or motivation.
It says “extremely happy…” not appropriately happy, not very happy, extremely. As in- extreme. Now not only does extreme emotion compound those issues like social appropriateness, but…. Life might become a sort of hell, that you can’t escape, that you probably wouldn’t think of escaping. You’re ALWAYS extremely happy. It’s ambiguous if there is a range to that happiness- but it implies a singular level of constant happiness. Getting married or realizing your dream would theoretically give you the same happiness as stubbing your toe. The implications there are… that could go a lot of ways and most of them are kinda dark and twisted. We also don’t know… if you’re always extremely happy, could you adjust to being extremely happy and perhaps even become depressed at your happiness? Or would you be happy even if life lost all flavor and feeling of meaning?
And where things can get REAL psychologically screwed up real fast is… do you ONLY feel extremely happy, or can you fill mixes of emotions? If you can’t things are still an ambiguous mess but a little easier to contemplate. If you CAN feel mixed emotions…. What do you suppose happens to someone who being hurt or having bad things happen to them results in happy feelings? So say you do something and feel shame, but you also feel… extremely happy. The reward center of your brain can and likely will start linking thing together. While you could be just as happy doing anything else, as humans we tend to form patterns and routines. If the day you pushed that button was the same day a bunch of messed up stuff happened to you- you could end up seeking out humiliation or pain etc. pretty easily.
Nothing about this says bad things won’t happen to you. In fact, all the bad things could happen to you everyday and you’d still be happy. On the one hand one could argue that since we seek human companionship and we seek achievements and do things with a goal to be happy- and most of our survival drives manifest as stimuli that make us “happy” or “unhappy,” it wouldn’t matter if you got every disease and went to prison and got torn apart by monkeys or everyone you knew died or suffered or you spend the rest of your life alone. Of course if you are a person who seeks more than just happiness, who thinks that our deeds or achievements are important or have goals beyond just happiness etc- which most people do or else we’d all just be drunk and high non stop until we died or something- then that might concern you.
So to even consider pushing that button I’d need a whole lot more information, but just from the info I have, pushing that button seems like a TERRIBLE idea.
1. Doesn’t specify HOW you lose the ability to have kids. There’s more than one way to lose your ability to have kids and some involve losing things you’d probably rather keep even if you didn’t want kids.
2. For the rest of your life. Ominous. You know what could make you happy for the rest of your life? A massive over dose of any number of drugs. You’d be happy… for the rest of your life. All several minutes. It doesn’t say “natural life” or anything that implies the method of happiness won’t kill you or whoever is powering the choice won’t kill you prematurely.
That probably isn’t a good thing. Parents, kids, wife die? You’re happy to get the news. You’re at the funeral smiling and cheerful. Get dumped? Happy. Your partner has the worst news of their life? You’re happy. Lose everything and you’re living on the streets? Happy. Being violated? Happy. Not only is that incredibly messed up, it would be extremely socially isolating. Inability to relate to people, peoples inability to relate to you. Likely inability to react appropriately to social norms, and possibly a partial or complete loss of ambition and/or motivation.