Lynne Mcfall's Pig Happiness

Lynne McFall, an emerita associate professor from Syracuse University, argues in her book Pig Happiness that people who achieve happiness through delusions or ignorance are not truly happy. She states this is because we, as bystanders, find it hard to believe that they can be happy while they live this way. Ultimately, this is because their standards for happiness do not match ours but does that mean they have failed at obtaining happiness? McFall categorizes pig happiness into five different forms. The “happy” idiot, or people who are mentally deficient in some way; is it happiness if you don’t understand what is going on around you? The incompetent bottlecap collector; or someone who spends their entire life focused on a single goal like

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