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Daniel Haybron on Happiness

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What Makes Living With Each Other Bearable and Civilization Possible?

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What makes living with each other bearable and civilization possible is the willingness of all parties to limit the exercise of their rights. This idea that well being for all of us is partly created by our self restraint is a really beautiful idea. But at the same time, then, to realize like what you have a right to do is a very small part of what is only marginally related to what you ought to do. And I think one of the things that this may be overreaching a bit but in our politics. We've had a tendency to leave a lot of the American culture behind by focusing on problems of poverty and disadvantage as the people have a right. It would be pretty indecent to sit

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