What does the “pursuit of happiness” mean?
As a personal definition, the pursuit of happiness as simply one’s god given right to commit actions that allow a person to pursue happiness, so long as that pursuit does not deliberately involve interfering directly or indirectly with the happiness of others (I also call this a sub-definition of the meaning of life) Vague as that may sound, I basically mean that you can try to be happy so long as you don’t intentionally make others unhappy. Granted there are things people do unintentionally that make others unhappy, and of course this is where morals start to enter the grey zone. According to the United States, the pursuit of happiness is defined as: “…one of the “unalienable rights” of people enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, along with “life” and “liberty.” “The right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity or develop their faculties, so as to give them their highest
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