“It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose” (Thomas More). The natural need, the pursuance to take care of ourselves first, is just human instinct. For complete serenity among society, we need to understand how and when to make certain sacrifices, for the benefit of the majority. In England during the 1500s, King Henry VIII was the current leader at the time. He ruled in a dictatorship, where everything he said became law, or action. Thomas More, the King’s Advisor, saw this as very wrong, due to the abusive nature of King Henry. King Henry persecuted
