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A plan of action to resolve the current crisis in American life

For most of the last decade, a number of editorial writers, politicians, clergy and other experts have described America as a nation in a kind of crisis. Indicate an increasing number of people leaving school, living free probation, parole or in prison, victims of domestic violence or criminal, which rely on drugs or alcohol, which are infected with diseases sexually transmitted diseases, who have had abortions, leading to out of wedlock, who are divorcing or dependent on Ritalin, Prozac or Xanax for the day. Argue These statistics are evidence of something terribly wrong with the American lifestyle.

As a practicing clinical psychologist, working with individuals included in these figures every day of the week. On Monday I spoke with a man on the road to jail for writing bad checks, a middle-aged mother struggling to stop drinking in a stupor every night, and a woman in her twenties has been diagnosed with herpes. Tuesday I talk to a teenager facing an unwanted pregnancy, a parent's court-ordered home after assaulting his son, and a woman in conflict the opportunity to end their affair. On Wednesday I met a boy of 11 years not cooperating with their teachers on Thursday with a woman who was devastated by the news that her husband has filed for divorce to marry his girlfriend, and Friday, with a teenager recently attempted suicide.

In this perspective, instead of numbers is, persons included in the statistics are living, breathing human beings. Each has a unique history and set of circumstances, and very personal thoughts, emotions, ideals, regrets, hopes and dreams. But despite their differences, all these people have one thing in common: they all are, to some extent, unhappy, dissatisfied and unhappy in his life.

Recognizing that all these people are in a sad sense, it is possible to characterize the number of people in all statistical groups covered by experts as a general measure of unhappiness in the United States. Since the total number of persons in these groups continues to increase, it is reasonable to infer that we are in the midst of an epidemic of unhappiness. Recognizing that this nation has been designed to optimize the conditions for the exercise of personal happiness, unhappiness of this epidemic can be referred to the current crisis in the American lifestyle.

Attempts to tackle crisis

A group of opinion leaders provides a simple explanation and a solution to this crisis. Assuming that illiteracy, probation, imprisonment, assault, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, domestic violence and divorce are consequences dysfunctional behavior, conservatives argue that the growing number of people who are with these conditions is the result of bad decisions. They argue that people can avoid these outcomes by better managing their personal life choices.

Conservatives point out that the basic structure of American life is a system law based on a set of moral ideas of good and evil. They cite the founding fathers as John Adams, who in 1798 wrote: "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. Is totally inadequate to govern others. "O refer to James Madison, who in 1778 wrote:" We played the entire future of civilization American, not in the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions … the ability of each one of us of governing ourselves to restrain ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. "

Conservatives point out that, from colonial America to Forty years ago, about the population of this country usually involves moral principles inherited from the Judeo-Christian founding fathers were a series of guidelines for making decisions that lead to a true and lasting happiness in this world and the next. Note that since those who advocate the separation of church and state has begun succeed in eliminating all reference to religion in public schools, there was an increase in the number of people who do not complete high school living on probation, parole or in prison, victims of domestic violence or criminal, addicted to drugs or alcohol, infected with diseases sexual transmission, having had an abortion, giving birth out of wedlock, divorce, and relying on antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs. They argue that each of these adverse conditions could be mitigated if the Americans, once again, started acting in the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus Christ, in options every day.

On the other hand, liberals insist that there are several problems with the conservative approach. First, the moral position of the Judeo-Christian is far from clear. While all believers the roots of morality in Scripture, there are large differences in the way sacred texts are included. While some Christians maintain consumption of alcohol is a sin, others serve wine in church. Similar differences exist with regard to Christian positions in the game, divorce and homosexuality. Liberals point to the fact that people of faith is found on both sides of abortion, death penalty and assisted suicide to demonstrate that moral reasoning based on religion is not able to respond effectively to the major moral controversies of our time.

Liberals also argue that faith-based moral reasoning allowed many of the more glaring injustices of the past. Thousands have been slaughtered in the Crusades, torture during the Inquisition, and died during the centuries of war saint in Europe. Many of those who settled in the British colonies in North America fled persecution at the hands of intolerant religious beliefs. After the American Revolution, the Bible has been used to justify the perpetuation of slavery and the subordination of women. Even today the Ku Klux Klan uses a Christian symbol to terrorize non-white Americans are simply the exercise of fundamental rights.

The Liberals also note that the Revolution American was both a rebellion against religion as it was a military campaign. Instead of relying on the British idea that it was the duty of a citizen to obey God divine king to a throne, the founding fathers based their declaration of independence of rational philosophy of the other source of moral authority that has shaped and influenced the course Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece. They left to establish a government based explicitly on philosophical rather than religious ideals. Referring the First Amendment of the Constitution and the fact that the United States became a nation of many religions, liberals say it is now non-American to the core public education or any other type of public policy on a set of moral principles that belong to a particular religious tradition.

Beyond crisis resolution rejecting of the Conservatives, the Liberals propose a different analysis of the crisis itself. While acknowledging that failure to complete school school, delinquency, crime, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, domestic violence, divorce, and emotional disorders involve some sort of dysfunctional human behavior, refuse these conditions have anything to do with moral reasoning or ideas about good and evil. On the basis of the theory of human nature generally accepted in contemporary social science, argue that this behavior is determined by readers instinctive modes of conditioning before, imbalances in brain chemistry, socio-economic or other, but not factor identified that involves some other options. They believe that scientific research new, inevitably, to discover the causes of dysfunctional behavior and the results of this research will lead to a reduction in the number of people who behave in this way.

The need for a new approach

Instead of trying to work together in an effort to find common ground, the conservative leaders and today's liberals to spend their energies trying to win hearts and minds of their views. Their strategies are used to influence policy through surveys Public opinion and the electoral process. Unfortunately, as the leaders of these ideologies to participate in a cultural civil war, the epidemic continues to unhappiness and crisis current in American life hard.

One way out of this mess begins to realize that crises are events that have a structure and dynamics yours. Crises occur when people are faced with reactions conditions are accidental and unexpected. They arise from the pursuit of action plans based on assumptions that are somehow inaccurate, ineffective or inappropriate in relation to achieving a desired result. The crisis will continue as long as they are trying to achieve results keep doing what they do not realize that the assumptions are somewhat flawed.

The crisis was resolved when the three events. First, the assumptions of those who end up with undesirable results specified. These assumptions are then evaluated with respect to the extent that they are really accurate, effective and appropriate with respect to achieving of the target. Finally, the results of this assessment are used to develop a new course of action to achieve expected results based on assumptions that are more precise, effective and appropriate to achieve the desired result.

This idea of a crisis structure suggests that the solution to the current crisis in the American way of life could achieved by identifying the assumptions of conservative and liberal traditions, the evaluation of their accuracy, effectiveness and relevance, and develop a new approach for the epidemic of unhappiness on the basis of what the assessment revealed.

Identify existing assumptions

Conservative approach is based on three assumptions about human nature deeply rooted in Western civilization. These assumptions have been introduced in Enlightenment writings of British philosopher Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, who provided a theory of human nature which led the U.S. Revolution and continued writing the Constitution of the United States. today's conservatives often concern for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Founding Fathers made use of these philosophers thoughts.

The first conservative assumption theory is known as a voluntary human nature. He claims that human beings have the ability to choose between different options for action. It also includes the idea that, when faced with a choice, people are naturally motivated to choose a course of action may create more likely to make them happy in some way.

The second assumption is a conservative legal theory called self-interest. This theory assumes that moral principles are a set of guidelines for taking decisions which are essential for optimal quality life. It is also assumed that if the law on these principles in their choices in life, do what they can to maximize their potential to achieve happiness, emotional well-being, happiness and life satisfaction.

Finally, conservatives assume that moral principles are a matter religion. This hypothesis is based on the belief that human beings are limited in their ability to distinguish between modes of action that seems to improve the quality of a person's life and those who enrich reality. Consequently, conservatives have argued that the omniscient God has revealed this knowledge on how to become and remain some people happy, Moses, the prophets, Jesus and the apostles, and the rest of humanity can find true happiness and sustainable use this information on your choice in everyday life.

The liberal approach to tackle illiteracy, probation, imprisonment, assault, drug abuse, diseases sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, domestic violence, divorce, and a variety of emotional disorders based on a set of assumptions about human nature has begun to influence the Western world that the Enlightenment has been replaced by a new set of ideas about the nature of human existence. While Enlightenment thought was rooted in faith in God, a vision of heaven and fear of hell, the notions of human nature developed used by liberals as an atheist, scientific view of the world emerged.

The first hypothesis is called liberal determinism. It is the theory of human nature advanced by Sigmund Freud, William James and John Watson, thinkers laid the foundations for contemporary social science. Determinism is the belief is that human behavior is caused by the instinctual drives, packaging forms before genetic changes in brain chemistry, socioeconomic status or any other process that has nothing to do with the choice between alternative courses action.

Second, liberals assume that moral principles are not relevant to deal with dysfunctional behavior. This hypothesis is based on the belief that instead of religion, the great minds of Western philosophy are the proper source of moral authority and conviction that the French philosopher Auguste Comte, is the great Americans should mind turn as the authority on morality. His theory, altruism, holds that this is only improves the welfare of others, society or humanity in general. Since altruism emphasizes that moral activity is to serve others, acting on principle is considered as an obstacle for altruistic or limitation in the pursuit of private happiness.

Third, liberals assume that religion is not a reliable source of knowledge about life and style of life. This hypothesis is based on its view that the quality of life has improved in almost all spheres of human existence, where scientific discoveries replaced pre-scientific thought. Liberals argue that it is appropriate to rely on science as a way of trying to understand how to help persons acting in dysfunctional behaviors that refer to religious texts they view as outdated relics of a bygone era.

To evaluate the hypothesis

It is clear that traditional approaches to address the current crisis in the American way of life involves a series of questionable assumptions about whether people are able to make decisions, and object and source of ideas about good and evil. While the conservative assumption that people have the ability to choose between different possible courses of action that the Religion is the source of good ideas about good and evil, and that the moral principle is essential to be and remain happy, liberals assume that human behavior is not nothing to do with the selection, that morality has nothing to do with the pursuit of personal happiness, and science rather than religion is the source of knowledge adequate to deal with dysfunctional behavior that contribute to the epidemic of unhappiness. Now that these questionable assumptions have been identified, each can be evaluated depending on the extent to which available data suggest that it is precise, effective and appropriate with respect to trying to resolve the ongoing crisis in the American lifestyle.

In the Throughout Western civilization and the establishment of the social sciences, one hundred years all educated and thoughtful intellectual leaders recognized that people have ability to choose. From the earliest philosophers of ancient Greece, every great philosopher in the Western tradition has argued that, compared with many of the behaviors, humans are able to choose between different courses of action. In addition, all known has had a legal system based on the idea of people actually make decisions in the context of everyday life.

These historical facts and sociological observations are consistent with human beings have done to themselves and each other from the beginning of time. Descriptions of the human daily behavior, people still regularly refers to the intentions, desires and choices in the description of the activities from friends, family and those involved in commercial and community. We also have direct access to the process of choosing among other possible courses of action when we decide what to eat for breakfast, what color layer to buy, and what program to watch TV.

Although the results of some studies in animals can be used to argue for a deterministic theory of human nature, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that this is an accurate way to describe many types of human behavior. During the twentieth century, scientists have attempted to identify a series of processes such as involuntary instinctive readers of preconditioning methods, the genetic changes in brain chemistry, and socio-economic causes people not to acquire the proper skills training, commit a crime, addicted to drugs or alcohol, sex risk, family abuse or divorce. At best, these studies have yielded only modest correlations. The results of thousands of these studies for nearly a hundred years indicate that although non-voluntary processes may play a role in these dysfunctional behavior that does not really make people behave like this one. Based these scientific data, it is reasonable to conclude that scientists have never been able to show that people Humans do not have the ability to choose.

One way determine whether moral principles are relevant to the pursuit of personal happiness is look at what research has revealed about the relationship between the game from start and quality of later life. Statistics show that correlation between reports of personal happiness, emotional well-being, happiness and life satisfaction with people who regularly speak the truth, to keep their agreements, and to refrain from theft. The investigation also revealed a correlation between people who say you're dissatisfied, discontent and dissatisfaction with their lives and often a tendency to lie, cheat and steal. In addition, virtually all research People describe psychological on the reasons for acting on the principle that the vast majority of people who do what the Law in principle because they believe personally benefit as a result.

Assuming that people have the ability to choose between different courses of action and moral principles can increase the potential for a person to become and remain successful, the following hypothesis, which must be assessed is whether it is more appropriate to assume that religion is the correct source of the principles or resorting to moral philosophy of ideas about what is right and wrong. In this sense, conservatives and liberals assume that there are only two sources of the principles moral. Nor does it consider the fact that in the last decade, a new source of moral principles has emerged. This power is science and what the scientific method has shows the relationship between people choose and how these decisions affect the quality of their lives. Because these principles have been designed specifically as a way to determine what courses of action to maximize the probability that a person is happy stay and scientifically formulated principles of morality provide a more effectively address the epidemic of unhappiness that continue to operate on assumptions about the origin of moral knowledge is contained in the conservative or liberal approach.

Scientifically formulated principles of morality

Scientifically formulated principles of morality have been developed by scientists following the same logic used for the definition of principles to ensure the health and welfare. The researchers were able to formulate welfare principles through observation of a correlation between certain types of voluntary human behavior and a number of serious diseases. Studies have shown that people who regularly smoke snuff are often left with cancer emphysema, or heart disease. He noted that the lack exercise is correlated with diabetes, obesity, and stroke. On the basis of these correlations and other scientists have been able to formulate alternatives to unhealthy behavior patterns then promoted as guidance to make healthy decisions everyday life. These principles of life are good health, to prevent snuff, illegal drugs and excessive alcohol consumption, to obtain sufficient amounts of rest and exercise and eat a high fiber diet low fat, we do what we can to maximize our potential to become and stay healthy.

Similarly, research on the principles of morality began scientifically formulated to determine what types of behavior human volunteers correlated with a loss of happiness, emotional well-being, happiness and life satisfaction. Once these correlations have been given alternatives to these behaviors have been identified. Conceptualized as principles, guidelines for decision making in daily life to maximize the potential of a person to become and remain happy.

The investigation that led to the development scientifically formulated principles of morality revealed that there are fundamental similarities between the behavior of most of the volunteers who develop, one way or another as an unfortunate result of doing what they did. These behaviors are seen as doomed to failure because they undermine the efforts of a person to become and remain happy. Research has shown that there are seven types of self-destructive behaviors that lead to a loss of happiness, joy and satisfaction in life.

reckless behavior is to conduct a course of action knowing that it is a threat to something or someone important to the overall satisfaction of the person and satisfaction with life. Examples include smoking, illegal drug use, driving under the influence of psychotropic substances and awareness of safe sex. behavior modest is regularly pursuing courses of action to improve the happiness of others, while not essential to attend to yours. Examples include adolescent agree to unprotected sex as a way to please her boyfriend, a husband who constantly refers to the wishes of his wife in the decisions that negatively affect their own quality of life, and parents who continue to provide the children and adults for employment without regard to what they need to prepare for retirement. behavior unproductive means spending time and energy to activities that have little or nothing to do with the purchase or keep what is necessary to take and satisfaction in life. Some examples are teenagers who spend much time watching television, listening to music or talking on the phone instead of doing homework or study for exams, employees who spend part of their working hours surfing the Internet instead of completing assigned tasks, and spouses who spend most of their time on activities that have nothing to feed with their partners in life. unfaithful behavior is not honoring the agreements freely at an earlier point in time. Examples include teens to break the curfew, sellers who do not meet the guarantees and married people who cheat on their spouse. Disrespectful behavior is to look for an action plan which violates the fundamental rights of others. Examples of physical or sexual assault, theft or disclosure of certain types of personal information. deceptive behavior is to try to create in the mind of another person a picture of reality that does not correspond with reality. Includes the creation of misleading the audio or video statements false, or simply lying. Fearless interaction occurs when people pursue an action plan involving other persons whose conduct is reckless and counterproductive disrespect, cheating and / or misleading. Examples include the passengers in a car with a drunk driver to continue to employ a person who is not a workday for a day's pay to disclose personal information to a person who has shown no respect for private life, being in a marriage with a spouse who has an ongoing series of relationships extramarital affairs, and trust a person who is frequently.

Once it was decided that these seven models are those that are correlated with unhappiness, discontent and / or dissatisfaction in life, a set of alternatives has been identified. The alternative to reckless conduct and reckless humility and social interaction is called esteem. Self-esteem is to avoid any action that constitutes a clear threat to what is required of joy and satisfaction in life. The industry is the alternative to behavior nonproductive. The industry is investing time and energy needed to obtain and preserve what is essential to happiness and life satisfaction. The alternative to unfaithful and disrespectful behavior is referred to equity. Equity is to honor the agreements and respect for fundamental rights of others. Honesty, the alternative misleading conduct, is to make an accurate description of reality. As welfare principles, these guidelines make choices that maximize the chances of achieving emotional well-being when they are combined and have acted consistently in the context of everyday life. Given this reality, the combination and regular use of scientifically formulated four principles of morality can be called happiness formula.

Prevention and awareness

The potential for the formula of happiness is to reduce the epidemic of unhappiness is evident when the connection between the game in its principles and the ability of a person to avoid functional illiteracy, probation, imprisonment, aggression, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, or divorce becomes clear.

People who act on the principles of self-esteem and industry can acquire the right skills for competitive employment in the post-industrial economy today. When those who are willing to violate the rights of others persons acting on the principle of equity, probation and avoid prison, which often result in murder, assault, and various types of theft. When those they are reflecting on the opportunity to experiment with illicit drugs act on the principle of self-respect, prevent future dependency. When people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol act on the principles of self-respect, industry, and honesty, are in recovery from addiction and to reverse the blood, sweat and tears required to overcome addiction. If you are interested in having sex casual sex, persons acting on the principle of respect for self-avoiding sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. When people act on the principle of self-respect in the choice of a spouse, the industry to invest time and energy to work toward marriage, and equity, forsaking all others, there is a reduction in the number of people living with marital problems, domestic violence and divorce.

Scientifically formulated principles of morality that hold the promise of reducing the epidemic of unhappiness, if people are aware of these ideas about what is right and act on these principles, as they go through life every day. This means that a reversal of the epidemic of unhappiness requires a recognition general the value of acting on these principles to the individual and society in general. It is clear that the most effective way to achieve this is through the education process.

The first step in teaching a large number of youth in the principles of morality scientifically formulated began with the facts of life workshop came up Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1993. This program of character development has been designed to teach happiness formula for adolescents who are on probation for children and teaches them how to apply the formula in everyday life. All young offenders tried in this county are required to complete the facts of the life of the seminary as a condition of his probation.

The Facts of Life Seminar students know that when they act on the principles of morality scientifically formulated to obtain tangible benefits from improving and maintaining the quality of their lives. Students have similar mnemonic used in teaching the principles of nutrition and health. They are equipped with decision trees and taking into account various learning exercises to help to recognize a context for making decisions and systematically using scientifically formulated principles of morality to determine what alternatives to follow. Besides learning the same principles, students are trained in behavioral techniques such as imagination and self-talk as a means of strengthening self control when faced with the temptation to engage in self-defeating course of action.

Since its inception, hundreds of young people have passed through the facts of life seminars given by probation officers for children, staff mental health care, and a number of teachers in the centers, the day treatment programs, outpatient, and alternative schools. Result of research indicates that those who complete this program is a 123% increase in the number likely to refrain from violence, an increase of 92% in the number likely to refrain from theft, an increase of 178% in the probable number keep its promises, and a 160% increase in the number to tell the truth. In 2006, the Center for Juvenile Justice Training and Research Pennsylvania sponsored the first statewide program to prepare younger workers to address the facts of life through seminars from the Commonwealth.

In addition, a number of public school administrators and counselors who have learned about the facts of life workshop expressed interest in integrating the formula for happiness classes in decision making and self-consciousness in public schools. They recognize that many young people in juvenile probation may have been able to avoid trouble with the law if they have learned to use the principles of morality scientifically formulated in the context of their general training. Following this course of interest on the facts of life have been developed. It is a set of lesson plans that can be incorporated into existing programs in making decisions and self-awareness classes, both public and private schools.

When scientifically formulated principles of morality taught in public school, influential people in the community should be aware of its existence and its value in promoting personal responsibility and citizenship. Public meetings provide opportunities for parents and other leaders community to learn about the origin and nature of the formula for happiness and how and why it is effective in motivating adolescents to function normally in everyday life. These meetings also equip community members with a vocabulary and a set of concepts of good and evil that can be shared with other adults who are faced with the challenge of character development among youth. This ability to speak a common language allows teachers, school administrators, parents, clergy and other leaders community to coordinate their efforts to address the issues of responsibility and accountability in school, at home and in the neighborhood. It is clear that this effort will only successful if the people involved in implementing character education programs based on the formula of happiness are able to gain the support of leaders community are both conservative and liberal groups.

The Conservative support

Because scientifically formulated principles of morality are based a theory in human voluntary and because they are clearly relevant to the pursuit of personal happiness, many conservatives who are learning about the formula of happiness to recognize its value in relation to reducing the epidemic of unhappiness in the United States. But since most conservatives believe that moral should be a matter of religion, some find difficult to support the idea that scientifically formulated principles of morality should be taught in public schools. They are often used to take a position that is most appropriate return is based on the Bible's moral principles class or take all the instructions in moral reasoning and action in schools, leaving this aspect of education to parents and clergy.

The conservative position that morality based on the Bible must be reduced in public schools has its roots in United States history. Conservatives remember that when the founding fathers framed the Constitution recognized that Democracy is a fragile form of government. They knew they had been tried twice before in the history of Western civilization and every time that had collapsed some form of dictatorship. To prevent this happening in America, some of the founding fathers called for a public education system for citizens who are elected public representatives would be able to make the right decisions when it comes time to vote. Benjamin Rush, one of the founding fathers and the father of psychiatry American, was a chief architect of U.S. public schools. He kept the public schools should have two objectives. The first was to teach academic skills basic reading, writing and arithmetic. The second was to train students to act on moral principles contained in the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus.

On the basis of this mission, nearly 200 years, American public schools was one of the three institutions that formed the successive generations of Americans in moral reasoning and its relevance to everyday life. Public School working in concert in the church and family in the presentation of an integrated and effective action on the principle at home, at school, work and community. History shows that this combined effort to develop personality began to crumble when defenders separation of church and state have been successful in public schools to eliminate all references to the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus. As the Most Americans see morality as a matter of religion, public schools quickly and completely abandoned any formal instruction in moral reasoning based on a concern the school district pursued by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Conservatives citing this story as a way to discuss a return to the kind of moral education based on the Bible can be noted that, given the political strength of those who advocate the separation of church and state, it is unlikely that religion will be returned to public school classrooms in the United States anytime in the foreseeable future. In addition, although it occurs, teaching moral reasoning is based on the writings do little to motivate a large number of students to act in principle because many Americans no longer understand the world in terms of the biblical descriptions of reality. Students who do not have faith in God who does not have the vision of heaven, and who are not afraid of hell, no reason to take seriously what the Bible has to say about life and lifestyle. Obviously, scientifically formulated principles of morality are far more powerful to motivate public school students who have no religious basis for use in everyday life, because these ideas on how to behave are consistent with the scientific view that permeates the whole world what they learn in school.

The conservatives argue that moral education should be kept out of public school and left the family and the clergy are reminded that millions of children in America today have never been inside a synagogue or a church. Millions more are raised by parents who see the value in acting on moral principles in everyday life. Since public schools are the only place where these children have the opportunity to receive formal training on how to act in principle Failure to provide this type of education perpetuates the epidemic of unhappiness in the United States. People of faith have no problems using scientific discoveries that led to the vaccination of all children in America against smallpox, diphtheria and polio should be encouraged to recognize that the teaching of the formula for happiness is a way to inoculate children against functional illiteracy, probation, imprisonment, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, marital discord, domestic violence, divorce, and a variety of mental health problems. It makes no sense rather than depriving millions of children in the provision of teaching scientifically formulated principles of morality that would limit the availability of vaccines to children of people who believe in God and take their children to Sunday school.

Conservatives who believe in a secular set of moral principles can have a negative effect promotion of faith should be noted that scientifically formulated principles of morality are not hostile to belief in God or traditional religion. Allowing students to learn about the formula for happiness at school, parents and religious leaders can combine the product of scientific research with its approach to education religious. religious educators can teach children scientifically formulated principles of morality are compatible with most of the good and bad ideas contained in Scripture as a means of providing additional validation of moral principles in the sacred texts. In addition, religious teachers can demonstrate how the combination instructions on how the Bible refers to God with the moral principles of scientifically formulated allow people of faith experience greater joy than the level of respect from people are able to find using the formula for happiness

Liberal

Because the formula for happiness is a product of scientific method Many liberals believe that the idea that they can be taught in public school in an intriguing idea. Since you can also see how the training of young to act on scientifically formulated principles of morality goes a long way to reducing the epidemic of unhappiness, usually recognize the value of promoting this approach making educational decisions in the public schools. At the same time, some liberals have trouble sustaining a program of development of personality that inspires students to act on the principle by an explicit call to a personal interest. This resistance can decrease once these liberals recognize how the formula for happiness the outcome of a number of benefits to others and society as a whole.

When an individual acts on the principle of self-respect that this person does what he or she can promote general physical and emotional, this reduces health agencies and social services have to offer that person and make their services accessible to other community members in need. When the actions of those at the top of the industry, providing the material needs of others in the form of these materials as food items, clothing, housing, automobiles, appliances, electronics, and countless other significant material objects improve the quality of human life. When a doctor, nurse, lawyer, banker, police officer, auto mechanic, building inspector, or acts of attention in the beginning of the industry, he or she is serving others by addressing quality of legal representation, financial aid, security, transportation or security of buildings and clean streets and parks, improving the lives of other members of the community. When a person acts on the principle of equity, he or she allows others to maintain their physical and emotional well being, while at the same time, contribute to freedom and security of other members of the community. When a person acts on the principle of honesty, he or she gives others with accurate information that enables them to make realistic decisions and decisions when faced with decisions criticisms that have a lasting impact on their future quality of life.

Beyond these advantages resulting from the actions on scientific principles made of the moral, people behave according to the formula of happiness tend to be those that support institutions in the heart of American life. people are respected, hardworking, honest and fair are the ones who provide most of the contributions to charitable organizations in the United States. As taxpayers, they also provide service to others through publicly funded health and social government assistance programs.

self-respecting people, industrious, honest, and better build families, neighborhoods and communities. Education Working within these networks of relationships that develop, support and maintain quality health facilities, libraries, emergency services. They become politically informed and conscientious voters to support politicians and policies that balance agricultural, mining and manufacturing interests and environmental concerns. They also support candidates and government officials who ensure fair enforcement of laws protecting the integrity of the courts, and maintaining the military preparedness, which all citizens can benefit from a government to protect the right of everyone to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Assuming that the Liberals are interested in a program for character development that can provide these benefits society, is important for them to admit that these benefits can be achieved only when individuals are motivated to act on these principles that produce these results. Since character building based on the formula of happiness shows that it is in the interest of students to act on principle, this approach to character education is effective in encouraging them to use the principles of morality scientifically formulated in the context of everyday life. As such education, the formula for happiness is much more reliable than increase the welfare of others which bind only to students in character development programs to participate in public service activities as serving meals in soup kitchens, picking up trash along the road, or baking cookies for the residents of the shelter to the homeless.

Restoration the moral basis

In 1776, a group of British citizens have declared their independence from the royal domain and continued to develop a plan for a lifestyle designed to optimize the conditions for the exercise of personal happiness. Recognizing that the pursuit of individual happiness depends on self-control, which established the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on the assumption that Americans continue to govern their personal lives with the moral principles they have inherited from the Judeo-Christian. Although the founding fathers were aware that the science is making impressive progress, even in his day, had no way to see how moral foundation disintegrate If the Christian view of reality gives way to the scientific world view that characterizes America today.

"These are the times that try the souls "Thomas Paine wrote at the beginning of the American crisis. Five months after the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, wrote this essay to awaken Americans to the fact that the war to win independence was not yielding expected, desired and expected outcome. He urged the people of this nation to recognize that if they were simply in their daily lives assuming that the war would be won without any effort on your part, followed a plan of action that would disastrous consequences as regards the future of the American lifestyle. We now know that those who reviewed the case and are dedicated to the cause, eventually managed to establish in the first nation on earth dedicated to the protection of all citizens the right to the pursuit of happiness.

As Americans of his time, we are currently facing a crisis, with the option of introspection. An alternative is to continue to flounder, arguing choices as to whether to make a difference in the quality of life human, disputes over whether morality has a role in the pursuit of personal happiness, and disputes about whether if morality should be a matter of religion or whether based on a philosophy, while children move each year more and more into adulthood with virtually no appreciation for the role of morality in the pursuit of happiness. The alternative is to recognize that the choices we make determine the quality of our lives, recognizing that ideas about good and evil are essential for search of happiness, and do what we can to promote the idea that scientifically formulated principles of morality are an effective way to restore the moral reasoning and action morality of their own place in the founding of the American Way of Life.

Copyright 2006

About the Author

Douglas R. Ramm is a board certified, practicing clinical psychologist. He spearheaded the research which led to the development of internationally recognized scientific principles of happiness and emotional well-being. He formulated the Facts of Life Programs, currently in use in the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system and area schools.

http://factsoflifeprograms.com

theformulaforhappiness@yahoo.com

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