The pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of evil

26. April 2009 by admin.

Since America’s inception, the pursuit of happiness has been considered one of the essential human rights owed to our citizens, and has lately been used to defend the “rights” of people traditionally on morality’s bad side: advocates of sexual revolutions, easy divorces, gay marriage, abortion, and even Satanism.  But just as almost everything our forefathers said has been redefined and misconstrued due to a lack of either morality or intelligence (as gun rights are definitely not for hunting), so has the pursuit of happiness been turned into a mockery of what it should be.  The reader should note that this can only happen if you don’t understand how happiness works.  As such, let us consider three points.

First, thinkers must understand that all evils are relational, either being between the offender and a person or between an offender and God.  It is conceptually impossible to commit an evil when you’re the only person in existence.

Second, all people in all portions of the globe pursue happiness, but both where they look and how they look determine whether happiness results, and even the happiness of those around them. Obviously, some pursuits are noble and others aren’t, with some leading to considerably more unhappiness as a result of immoral pleasure-seeking.  A man who seeks happiness through financial stability may either work hard or con people.  A person who seeks to maintain power can either persuade the masses with his good policies or by chopping heads off in the public square.  And most of us–excluding actual sociopaths with mental disabilities or the perverse–recognize the difference between proper and improper methods of pursuit. Read the rest of this entry »

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