Are people doing what is right for them?

It is speculation to say people think or believe that what they are doing with their life is right for them. Who can speak for any individual, even themselves, or claim to generalize for all humanity? It is absurd for anyone to talk about humans in absolute terms and sounds foolish even in the most modulated academic gobbledygook. But, let’s set aside those quibbles for a moment and use the Well-Being Score method to probe those questions using its defined boundaries. This method takes nebulous ideas like happy, healthy, wise, and wealthy and puts five levels of value on each of them. We could then ask people which of these defined categories felt like their choice as a way of living.

Would #1 Happy +1  people answer the Well-Being Score accurately?

It seems likely that a #1 Happy +1 person would seek absolute freedom of action and rebel at all constraints to unconstrained exuberance, even answering a questionnaire honestly. These people would show little interest or satisfaction in having achieved a long sought-for goal attained by steady fulfillment of social duties that are the life of a #1 Happy +3 person. On the contrary, they would be bewildered and contemptuous of #1 Happy +5 people who found contentment in creating a working society that hopes for results in life with justice for its members.

Would #1 Happy +5  people answer the Well-Being Score accurately?

 #1 Happy +5 people are noted for their honesty, so they would probably answer the questions accurately. They would feel comfortable creating farsighted attention and developing to the maximum the social wisdom of the entire society. They would accept #3 Wisdom +3 people’s needs for social recognition based on their productive actions. Also, they would perceive #1 Happy +1 people’s thoughts and actions of unconstrained liberty as destructive of social well-being and, therefore, intolerable.

Would #1 Happy +3  people answer the Well-Being Score accurately?

#1 Happy +3  people are the normal working people of a society who do what needs to be done daily. They don’t have the time or energy to think about the philosophically challenging ideas of making a society function, as do #1 Happy +5s. They do have serious concerns about preventing cheaters from #1 Happy +1 from taking advantage of them and their earned wealth. 

People like and defend their personal life choices.

The point of this post was to compare the self-appraisal of individuals living within the various defined Well-Being Scores and consider if the individuals would approve of their life choices and their benefits. The comparisons were two levels apart to make obvious each group’s thinking and how it was incompatible with others two levels away. The same could be done for the in-between stages, but the point was more obviously made by making the separations greater.