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Edit--ok, clearly Cassius and I are of one mind! My answer is a hard no. There is no possible claim about what constitutes the proper end of life that meets a test of falsifiability, in part because of an observation made by David Hume. (Quote) Applying this to the pleasure principle, I might think I'm on solid ground by starting things out this way: "Every living thing, as soon as it is born, seeks after pleasure and recoils from pain." Starting with that, what would it take for us to get to th…