its designed to maximize your happiness in the future and distill it over a longer period of time instead of one intense burst and then consequences
Not to mention balance the long term health and happiness of society against the happiness of depraved hedonistic individuals that get off on annoying people around them.
Not to mention balance the long term health and happiness of society against the happiness of depraved hedonistic individuals that get off on annoying people around them.
Those things work hand in hand. If society is good, then you have a happy, healthy existence in it and your overall happiness increases.