This account, however, is open to a rather obvious objection. David Benatar
rightly points out that on the “desire-fulfillment” conception of happiness, there
are two ways in which one might reach a state in which all of one’s desires are
fulfilled (or in which none of one’s desires is frustrated): (a) having fulfilled
whatever desires one has, or (b) having only those desires that will be fulfilled.
The problem, he argues, is that on this conception of happiness,