Imagine if you will, a person is presented with the choice to either be right, or to be happy.  Most times either outcome is mutually exclusive.  If my defense is "But I have every right to...", happy is done, history, has saturated my presence with it's absence, period.  If you don't believe me, just ask any black man, or woman, or Hispanic, or Muslim, etc.  This fact is only surprising to those of us who feel entitled.