In the real world, however, there is little evidence that happiness creates complacent citizens; in fact, studies show that happy people are more likely than alienated people to get politically involved, not less.
But as the Guardian's Lyn Gardner observed: "It is impossible to measure the contribution to the national index of happiness created by this giddy piece of free street theatre".
The committee would bind Spain to the principles of the Great Ape Project, which points to apes' human qualities, including the ability to feel fear and happiness, create tools, use languages, remember the past and plan the future.
So far, more than 12,000 people from around the world have signed up for GG101x: The Science of Happiness, created by the Greater Good Science Center and offered through massive open online course (MOOC) provider edX.
The counterintuitive piece is how focusing on someone else's happiness creates your own.
For example, if your book is on the subject of happiness, create a fun visual with a quote that says, "you can't pin your life on someone's life".
In the first case, I added happiness to the world by helping an existing person; whereas in the second case, I added happiness by creating a person who will be happy.
The hot topic in psychology is "happiness research" and studies show that most of us can obtain happiness through creating the right environment and mindset.
In many respects, this system proved a boon to happiness, by creating a society of previously unimaginable prosperity.
Alternatively, an impersonal approach could argue that we have a prima facie duty to promote over-all happiness by creating new well off people which duty, however, may be more easily overridden than duties not to cause harm.
