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Is everyone entitled to be happy?
There is no entitled. You get what you produce, modified by initial conditions. You want happiness, create it. This depends on what happiness is defined as.
Do we deserve to be happy?
We are human beings and happiness is a vital part of our survival. You deserve to be happy because you are not your past. You are not the choices you made or the chances you took when you didn’t know better than to take them. You deserve to be happy because the past cannot be altered but the future’s still wide open.
Can happiness be a person?
No one can make anyone think or feel or do anything. The only person who has that distinction is the person who owns the thoughts, feelings, and behavior. When you accept this truth, then and only then can you be truly happy.
Why Americans are obsessed with happiness?
We live in a happiness-seeking culture. Our society places expectations on each individual and we let those expectations dictate who we are and how we behave. We feel we have to live up to what is expected of us or we can never achieve satisfaction. It makes people continuously chase awards to gain recognition.
Do you think pursuit of happiness is an entitled Right?
No. Pursuit of happiness is not an entitled right as rights are made-up supernatural concepts. Happiness is personal, as personally defined and personally achieved through individual hardworking in society and managing ethical relationships with others around you starting with your family. Happiness is to share.
Is Happiness like life and Liberty?
If happiness is akin to life and liberty —as the Declaration and the original meaning of “the pursuit of happiness” say — then we are not dealing with momentary pleasurable sensations (“I’m happy the sun came out this afternoon”) but with deep and extended qualities of life (the happiness one feels to be cancer-free, for instance).
Does everyone have the right to be happy?
Everyone has the right to actually be happy, not just try to be happy. To use a metaphor: You don’t just get the chance to make the baseball team, you are guaranteed a spot. That’s a very different understanding. The next part of the sentence in the Declaration of Independence states “to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.”
What is the most important thing in pursuit of happiness?
First, the most important thing is to realize that the happy life is about more than just me: my health, my wealth, my safety and security. A robust understanding of human flourishing means it is for all and that means that our “pursuit” of happiness must transcend narrow nationalisms and thin tribalisms.