No, no a thousand times no!
From a personal development perspective, government mandated "happiness" for all completely contradicts the ideals of individual growth and personal achievement. It operates on an internal level. Anything the government could do happens on an external level.
How could the government be responsible for something as personal as your own happiness? Are you really so helpless that you are willing to give up responsibility for your own internal state?
How could they measure it? As a psychology student, I will be the first to tell you that psychologists don't have a clue as to what happiness is or how it should even be defined.
One of our gifts is the wide range of emotions we can feel. Even suffering has its own lessons and meaning.
What you are proposing is that we take away people's freedom to experience emotion.
Last edited by schola : 05-18-2008 at 01:25 AM.
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