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Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 9
Lesson 5: Is happiness just about getting what you want?Conflicting desires
How does having conflicting desires affect our happiness?
CONFLICTING DESIRES
If two desires conflict, that means that if one of them is satisfied, the other one can’t be, and vice versa. You can’t both go out with friends tonight and finish your paper that’s due tomorrow. If you want to do both, you have a pair of conflicting desires.
According to the desire theory, conflicting desires are a major impediment to happiness.
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- Yes, they are becuse one of the disires will be fuffiled and the othere will not and due to that ther will be sorrow due to both being not able to achive at the same time(1 vote)
- Yes, they are becuse one of the disires will be fuffiled and the othere will not and due to that ther will be sorrow due to both being not able to achive at the same time(1 vote)
- Yes, they are because only one of them can be done and the other can't be done.(1 vote)
- Why is everyone just saying the same thing?(1 vote)
- Yes because then you have a hard choice and if you do one you will be upset you didn't do the other(1 vote)
- yes, conflicting desires impact our happiness because they cause us to choose in situations where we do not want to.(1 vote)
- Yes because then you have a hard choice and if you do one you will be upset you didn't do the other(1 vote)