You are walking down the street and find an envelope with contact information on the ground. The envelope is filled with about two grand.. Currently, you now in possession of two grand, and there is no one around to dispute your rights to the money, because “finders keepers”. A few moments later, you run into a stranger. The stranger is disheveled, with a panic look within her eyes. She bumps into you, dropping all the contents in her hands and purse fall all over on to the ground. She apologizes excessively, and you aid her, then she asks you if you happened to see an envelope with her information on it. She tells you how she lost her money for rent that about 6 months overdue. She knows it is foolish to hope, but all she has left is the
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A higher power is not needed in order to achieve happiest because happiest can exist even without an all-powerful being to intervene or dictate how societies should live their lives. Religious texts can also be disregarded for human are intelligent enough to understand was is just and what is unjust simply by utilizing their common sense. To kill someone is wrong, therefore people should not commit this injustice. To lie signifies to be dishonest with yourself and others, so people should not lie. It is a ridiculously easy concept, but it comes back to the initial phrase “Treat everyone the way you want to be treated”. No one wants to be told lies. No one wants to be cheated on. Then why commit the injustice to another? The higher power could co-exist with this view in order to ensure that the view is not obstructed. For example, in the “Obsolete Man”, a Twilight Zone episode that aired on June 2nd, 1961. The episode focuses on one authoritative government and one man, by the name of Mr. Wordsworth, whom has been deemed as obsolete. The government controls all, and has protocols in order to remain in control. While there are a few outliners within the system—for there is nothing in this world without some faults—the government’s policy works. They [the government] destroyed any opposing views in order to guarantee its longevity. A higher power’s sole purpose would be to remind individuals their purpose in their lives without allowing them to
A higher power is not needed in order to achieve happiest because happiest can exist even without an all-powerful being to intervene or dictate how societies should live their lives. Religious texts can also be disregarded for human are intelligent enough to understand was is just and what is unjust simply by utilizing their common sense. To kill someone is wrong, therefore people should not commit this injustice. To lie signifies to be dishonest with yourself and others, so people should not lie. It is a ridiculously easy concept, but it comes back to the initial phrase “Treat everyone the way you want to be treated”. No one wants to be told lies. No one wants to be cheated on. Then why commit the injustice to another? The higher power could co-exist with this view in order to ensure that the view is not obstructed. For example, in the “Obsolete Man”, a Twilight Zone episode that aired on June 2nd, 1961. The episode focuses on one authoritative government and one man, by the name of Mr. Wordsworth, whom has been deemed as obsolete. The government controls all, and has protocols in order to remain in control. While there are a few outliners within the system—for there is nothing in this world without some faults—the government’s policy works. They [the government] destroyed any opposing views in order to guarantee its longevity. A higher power’s sole purpose would be to remind individuals their purpose in their lives without allowing them to