Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.