Eugine_Nier comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 April 2012 12:22:34AM 1 point [-]

Why, yes, what I meant to say there was that the government should enable you to pursue happiness in any way you choose, by guaranteeing your liberty to choose who to work for, what to work at, and how much you work. To be precise, the freedom to do whatever you want with your very limited time on this earth (I think people will still end up working just as much, when offered this freedom, unless they deliberately want to starve en masse, among other losses of comfort). The government isn't actually helping you be happy in any particular way,

Yes it is. It's forcing the employer to hire you.

Anyway, the Constitution forbids the Government to get in the way of your happiness, it doesn't forbid it to make that pursuit easier for you, unless that gets in the way of your happiness.

Or gets in the way of someone else's freedom.