"Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of the drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions."
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (page 1022)
"... a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values..."
Rand says what I have been trying to say for a month. There is more to happiness than alcohol and casual sex. I was happy when I filled up the grocery store's banana table; I was more happy when customers emptied the table. Many people do not get any thrill out of producing. They prefer drunkenness and meaningless sex.
I am worried that I am forgetting what true happiness is.
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Before my one loyal reader calls me a hypocrite.
People can get drunk and have casual sex. (I know and value people who do these things.) I am not saying that government should limit their choices.
I am challenging their philospohical foundations. I am speaking in a normative sense.
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