“Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.”
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
