3.20.2007

Republic Assignment 3/21

In your opinion, how can acting “right” (i.e. justly) help or harm the achievement of happiness?

In my opinion, acting justly means obeying the current set of laws that are set in place by government to better the condition of society. For instance: do not murder people. I think that this is a pretty just law because killing other people just isn't very nice when you get down to it. Now that, that has been established let me share my opinion of happyness. To me, happyness is a state of the mind in which you are in a worry and guilt free situation and when you have something to look forward to. So by acting in the confines of set justice (for instance not murdering people) you will not have the pressure of your conscience guilt on your shoulders.

Then again for people who have a lack of conscience they have it good because they are always happy yay!

1 comment:

JV (Dumpling) said...

I agree 100% with you Chris. I think that the government makes laws like not to murder anyone becasue it just is not right. Also I think that the government should not make laws just to make us happy but to make us more safe and to make more important laws to keep America safe.