Question

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides." This is a very famous quotation from Mill. How would you explain what it says to someone else?

Answer 1

Explanation:

It may be instructive to look at the opposite of the sentence here. Perhaps the smarter creature would be more unhappy when frustrated, recognizing how it gains from happiness relative to the creature with less experience and less knowledge of a situation that does not define it at the moment.  

Perhaps the argument is really about the fact that wisdom helps one to hypothetically live in multiple states and a lack of wisdom prevents or fails this possibility.