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    It is not the case that Life satisfaction theories are not fully adequate as accounts of happiness

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    • 1.Life satisfaction is compatible with profoundly negative emotional states like depression
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    • 2.A suffering artist might wholeheartedly affirm her life while experiencing deep suffering
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    • 3.It is counterintuitive to deem a person who is suffering deeply to be happy
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    • 1.Life satisfaction judgments are cognitively vulnerable to framing effects, mood states, and order-of-questioning biases (Schwarz & Strack, 1999).
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    • 2.A reliable theory of happiness must track welfare-relevant states, not artifacts of how questions are posed to subjects.
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    • 3.If life satisfaction reports systematically diverge from stable welfare conditions, they cannot ground a complete theory of happiness.
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    • 1.Nozick's experience machine argument shows that what we endorse upon reflection need not exhaust what genuinely constitutes our good.
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    • 2.Life satisfaction theories collapse the distinction between authentically flourishing and merely endorsing one's circumstances under adaptive preferences.
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    • 3.Adaptive preference formation, as analyzed by Elster and Sen, allows oppressed or deprived persons to sincerely affirm lives that objectively fail their interests.
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