To people who said that happiness would lose it's appeal without suffering: i disagree.

Just like suffering wouldn't suddenly become a state of content for someone who hasn't experienced anything else, happiness wouldn't either. Here is a baby born with harlequin ichthyosis syndrome. From the moment it is born and until it dies, all it feels is sharp pain. I argue that a person in a constant state of suffering/ecstasy will never see his state as ok and matter-of-fact, regardless of whether he has felt the opposite.
Our perception of either is determined by our biological structure - it's not something we "learn" or "build" by interacting with the world.


Besides, in a simulation I am talking about it is entirely possible to make it so intensity of ecstasy just keeps going up a step, constantly (every day, for example). That way there is always something to compare: a previous step.