"We choose everything we do, including the misery we feel," he wrote in a 1998 book called "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom".
These would include the avoidance of misery, the gaining of long term life satisfaction, the feeling of fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of usefulness and love.
Beauchamp and Childress assert that the content of the common morality is dictated by the primary objectives of morality, which include the amelioration of human misery, the avoidance of premature death, and the predictable consequences of indifference, conflict, hostility, scarce resources, limited information, and so on.
His most serious cases are sexual predators; his "lite" cases include the old standbys of masculine misery: compulsive porn-watchers, compulsive clients of prostitutes, men incapable of monogamy.
Local taxes are not generally included in the Misery Index (with noted exceptions), although all national and local taxes are considered for OECD-member countries in the Overall Tax Burden chart.
Half the set comprises Evans's lightly sketched originals, including the brooding Variation on the Misery, the free-jazz fanfare of Proclamation and the anthemic So Long, and a fine lineup includes tenorist Billy Harper, trombonist Jimmy Knepper and drummers Elvin Jones and Al Mouzon.
Now let me move to another point: all of the recent misery, including the stock market's plunge, the disasters at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the loss of retirement savings.
Governments that have publicly committed themselves to helping end Syria's misery, including the United States, must immediately do two things to help prevent a violent backlash against Alawites and other minorities.
But its seeming inability to act to end the protracted crises that have driven untold human misery – including the forced displacement of an unprecedented 65.6 million people – is an indictment of the organisation.
The civil war has produced "immense human misery," he said, including the bombing and displacement of civilians and the operation of a slave trade.
