ABSTRACT
The rational pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of values beneficial to one's life, not merely of values valued only because their achievement "makes one feel good". The rational man does not engage in predation, and the man who does engage in predation is not acting rationally that is, is not acting in his own long-term interest. Response to crime puts innocent, rational individuals in jeopardy because people make mistakes. Human experience includes evidence of wrongful jeopardy due to many categories of mistakes. The rational man understands that if he is a participant in a conflict, he cannot be also its objective adjudicant. Politics is not an experimental science, in the sense that one cannot carry out controlled experiments on human societies. Judgment and action are faculties of the individual human organism. Man is the animal that lives by his individual judgment.
