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Originally Posted by Dark Messiah
Ultimately, though, it's kind of expected that those who don't put a high regard on moral behavior will not think much of the theory. They will just continue to insist that those who do are in reality just as unhappy as they are. |
vice versa and you got the same counter argument.
as long as you define just behavior as those actions deemed to be just by society at the time the action is committed (see salem, mass. and Germany 1930-40)
your example of the "unjust" people being unhappy seems to be like a just person saying look see see they are unhappy I was right all along. I argue that an unjust person if never "caught" by society would be just as happy as a just person.
the idea of acting in a just manner, and just causes are in my opionin tools to pervert the moral conceous we all have. how else can we go to war or an exwcutioner do his job?
in reality a person is equaly as able to attain happiness threw just or unjust behavior. the sustanablity of that happinees is mitgated by societies exceptance or rejection of that behavior.