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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Why shouldn't we be a 'happy pig'?

'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.'
The quote is from John Stuart Mill, but why? Why is that better? Why should we be a dissatisfied human? Who do you think should be a dissatisfied human?
I’m not questioning whether some happiness is inferior to others, but thinking about to be a person. Why should we struggle for knowledge, for education, for a better ‘future’, rather than happily enjoying our lives?
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>The quote is from John Stuart Mill, but why? Why is that better?

His argument is that people who have tried both prefer the "higher" pleasures to the lower pleasures.

>Why should we struggle for knowledge, for education, for a better ‘future’, rather than happily enjoying our lives?

Mill thinks that struggling for knowledge, education, and a better future makes us happy. It makes us happy in a different way from enjoying more animalistic pleasures, but that kind of happiness, he argues, is superior, because people who have tried both prefer the intellectual sort of happiness.