2007-06-12 19:56:59 · 9 answers · asked by small 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, they cannot. If you get to know someone like that, you will discover they are the biggest complainers you have ever met.
Also, listen to yourself when you aren't getting things done. Are you happy with yourself? Don't you pick on yourself, feel guilty, and almost find it harder to get anything done? Sure! Then, once you have finally gotten things done, you feel GREAT!
I'll even contend that only people who take responsibility have a chance at happiness.
2007-06-12 20:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by Jeanne B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if any person includes a child. Before the creation of conscience and the loss of innocence, this is possible.
After that a person who feels no responsibility and owns no accountability is either a sociopath or a psychopath, and come to think of it, they can be amazingly happy as well.
Hmmmm. The only thing I just realized from this discovery is that if the world were full of these people (say, happy Mafia types) then society would destroy itself, and there would be no more happiness, at all. Happiness must have order, and that comes from accountability and responsibility, but they are, it seems the natural killers of happiness as a pure and unencumbered pleasure.
Thinking and learning as I write, I am reminded of the reality principle versus the pleasure principle. We are "happiest" in the latter; we forfeit that happiness for survival, which is why the attainment of skills to seek the reality principle is the very sign of maturity--loss of that "Garden of Eden" brand of happiness.
Conclusion:
Certain individuals can be truly happy, even lacking responsibility and accountability.
The collective would fall into chaos, and all happiness would be lost, if most were not accountable and responsible.
2007-06-13 03:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say there is some happiness to ignorance, for lack of a better word, but isn't there a responsibility to be had when looking after the individual's own well-being? In other words, shouldn't a person have some responsibility over themselves in order to watch over their own state of happiness and content?
2007-06-13 03:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by HThere 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No man is an island and that is perhaps the curse or blessing of man, depends on one's attitude. We are all part of the universe and whether we like it or not, anything done to offend the stability and order of that universe, whether referring to the environment or to breaking the most minor of laws, will somehow affect each of us somehow, one way or another. Only the mentally handicapped can perhaps escape the responsibility all of us must assume for each other in making this world a better place. Happiness is a human feeling and to be human is to care for the rest of humanity.
2007-06-13 03:19:15 · answer #4 · answered by larkton 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if a person truly believes he or she cannot be held accountable for his/her own actions and honestly believes they are responsibility free, I'm sure so long as life is going smoothly, they could most likely convince themselves they are truly, without a doubt, happy as pie.....therefore making themselves a more than perfect candidate for a visit from the men in the white coats!!!! :)
2007-06-13 03:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by sheliteful 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that's the ONLY way to be truly happy...
2007-06-13 03:05:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think those are the happy people - it's the people that get caught in their web that end up most unhappy
2007-06-13 03:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by princesstheruler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
around here i have a very responsible position and every time something goes wrong.........
I AM RESPONSIBLE
2007-06-13 03:47:46 · answer #8 · answered by in search of utopia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.ots of ppl live like that now.
2007-06-13 03:04:04 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋