>I can rewrite your first comment as: "Loners are happier than social people. Look at kids. Kids have less social obligations than adults. They're also happier. So if anything that proves that social obligations don't make you happy and it hints at the possibility that not having social obligations actually makes you happy."

You actually can't.... You really need to reread what I am writing because you are missing the point.

>Yes, granted this may be true but my point is there are also a lot of differences between kids and adults independent of intelligence.

If you read what I wrote ^^ the above is LITERALLY what I am saying. I am saying that it is COULD BE an independent variable. That is LITERALLY the thesis here. This is what I mean by you should read what I wrote very carefully because you're not.

>> one instance of a person who is smart and not happy >This premise does not lead to this conclusion: >> Stupid people are happier then smart people. >Which is your first sentence and seemingly the thesis of the first comment.

It does. Read carefully. Did I write all stupid people are happier than smart people? No.

I replied to you because your initial reply was in complete agreement with what I am saying but you just didn't realize it.