City Journal Autumn 2004 | The Frivolity of Evil by Theodore Dalrymple

City Journal Autumn 2004 | The Frivolity of Evil by Theodore Dalrymple: "Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one's state of mind, or one's mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one's life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct."