Good and Pleasure

Is “good” pleasant? The short answer for The Good Decision discipline is “no”. “Is integrity easy” might be the more appropriate question and the answer is also more obvious: no, integrity is not easy. The Good Decision will never sell itself to the world as the easy way to manage the profound difficulties of creating a just world. The point here with this project is that it might be simply the only way to create a just world in a democratic society. Life is complex, and anyone who has held an office, administered a human service, raised a family, or experienced a neighborhood knows this in blood and bone. Simplification is a good practice, but in the end, even with the streamlining of considerations and simplifications of issues, the human heart introduces variables that place limits on how simple you can make this life. This is a four step discipline of discernment and only a navigation chart in sorting out your heart and the heart of the community and nation in which you live. That said, goodness is not a straight ticket to pleasurable feelings, but goodness can make feelings of pleasure possible where nothing else can.

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