People are more happy if they have higher intelligence.

My mindset is this: anyone can become smart by being more productive. Not with talking, sleeping, or eating. Things that challenge oneself. It forces the person to think outside the box. Once they become productive, they reach flow which enhances their abilities. Possession in greater abilities leads to higher intelligence and more opportunities. With more options, abilities, and intelligence, I believe that one can be more happy with these three things.Yes, you can be happy if you strive to be your best, but what if one is satisified with what he have already? You failed to consider people who want to live a simple life. A great example is urban vs rural life. Metropolitian areas provide a vast number of resources in comparision to rural life. By your argument then, how would you argue for those people wanting to live in the countryside? And hobbies? I believe I may have accidentally implied hobbies are useless. Apologies. Hobbies are fine, but they aren't measured to find intelligence. You could the smartest guy in the world, but if you don't contribute anything, how can you people more happy than the people who do? Youre confusing your own debate topic. It's about happiness. Youre arguing for smarter people being more happy, while I argue for people can be happy if their goals falls in line with society. Aka, one does not have to be smart to be happy. Just because a person doesnt contribute something meaninful to society doesnt mean hes not happy. Plus, how would one define, "contributing anything?"I do believe that if one contributes to society, will find themselves happier that the society isn't going to collapse or other reasons. I don't mean buy just contributing by picking up trash on a sidewalk. Try using your intelligence to convince others of way they can recycle. Adding recycling bin on every corner. Installing trash cans in cars. This much more effective than just picking trash because you are not stopping someone from doing the same thing tomorrow. Digressing from the actual argument. Not gonna support digression. I've noticed two types of being happy: finite happiness and infinite happiness. Perhaps I should have said this earlier. Infinite happiness (happiness that will not change easily) is much more effective than finite happiness (happiness that is easily changed). Below average people feel finite happiness. Intelligent people feel infinite happiness. What if the below average person has enough money as an intelligent person? The below average will most likely use the money to fit their needs: finite happiness. Intelligent people, as they are in the 99th percentile, will be likely to use the money to fix problems or enhance others experiences in this world: infinite happiness. Not the point of this debate, although I think this is what you meant when you first phrased this debate. If you want, we can start over with this new resolution. In the last round, I did mention below average people tend to do trivial things. How can they have infinite happiness for changing things so insignificant? What about followers of religion? I hear that monks like suffering to bring enlightenment. Doing so makes them happy. I do think they are happy, but smarter people are more happy. Anyone can be happy. In any different way. But the people who go above and beyond feel more happiness than others Thats a bold argument to make. How would you deem person A is happier than person B? Just because one contributed to society means that they're happier? Moreover, you refuted your own argument by saying that anyone can be happy. I guess I've done my work well to convince PRO himself that he is wrong. :D