Should laws and policies aim to maximize happiness?
Should laws and policies aim to maximize happiness?
Laws and policies are described in many dictionaries and it is possible to find many descriptions and ideas of what is the true purpouse of laws and policies. Theodore Roosevelt has said, that „No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.” This means that it is an important issue we have to pay attention to. In this essay work I would like to go deeper in my own consciousness to explore my thoughts and feeling and even challenge myself with what others have thought on this subject. It is important to look at many opinions even if they are completely different. My first question to myself was – what is happiness? Am I happy? And what has made me happy. All these question, I believe, many people have asked themselves. Meeting people every day also made me ceom to another question about happiness. There are people who have a lot of money and they can afford to spend it as it please, going on vacations in the middle of winter and spending these vacations in five star hotels. Many of these people also are art collectors and enthusiastic theatre visitors. But many of these do not enjoy theatre, opera, art or music, making them lose a way of broadening one’s horizons. I have been raised in an environment that does not allow not to attend theatre and opera because it makes people more intelligent. You do not always have to be extraordinary smart to be intelligent. And even with little money and interest in it, it is possible. I believe that it is more important than money, but I have been challenged by this idea very often. Even Oscar Wilde has written: „When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” and it made me think that maybe living in this kind of idealism that is associated with my youth, could change dramatically once I have different responsibilities. I believe that
Laws and policies are described in many dictionaries and it is possible to find many descriptions and ideas of what is the true purpouse of laws and policies. Theodore Roosevelt has said, that „No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.” This means that it is an important issue we have to pay attention to. In this essay work I would like to go deeper in my own consciousness to explore my thoughts and feeling and even challenge myself with what others have thought on this subject. It is important to look at many opinions even if they are completely different. My first question to myself was – what is happiness? Am I happy? And what has made me happy. All these question, I believe, many people have asked themselves. Meeting people every day also made me ceom to another question about happiness. There are people who have a lot of money and they can afford to spend it as it please, going on vacations in the middle of winter and spending these vacations in five star hotels. Many of these people also are art collectors and enthusiastic theatre visitors. But many of these do not enjoy theatre, opera, art or music, making them lose a way of broadening one’s horizons. I have been raised in an environment that does not allow not to attend theatre and opera because it makes people more intelligent. You do not always have to be extraordinary smart to be intelligent. And even with little money and interest in it, it is possible. I believe that it is more important than money, but I have been challenged by this idea very often. Even Oscar Wilde has written: „When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” and it made me think that maybe living in this kind of idealism that is associated with my youth, could change dramatically once I have different responsibilities. I believe that