In your opinion, how can acting “right” (i.e. justly) help or harm the achievement of happiness? In your answer you need to first establish, in true Socratic fashion, what you mean by "right" (justice) and what you mean by happiness. What do you think Socrates would say about what you wrote and/or what do you think Thrasymachus would say?
"Right/justice" all depends on who's saying it. My view on "right/justice" is being truthful and not harming anyone. Though I believe this is justice, I do believe are is a time to but unjust. The only time I feel you can be unjust is when someone is hurting you first and your harming them back in self defence. Also being untruthful if it were a matter of life or death. But, if no one was harming others or being untruthful in the first place there would be no use in being unjust. I know achieveing justice is a dificult thing, and almost impossible due to human error and mistakes, but if we all tried to achieve justice society would be better.
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