Why Isnt George Happy? By Sam Stragand George lacks happiness because he lacks virtue through his tendency to deny reasoning by going to extremes and seeking only pleasure. Often times after a failure, George looks at his life only to find how empty and sad it is because of his lack of virtue. While Socrates stressed reasoning in order to find the human good, George seems to constantly avoid reasoning because he believes that good comes only through luck of which he believes, in his self-hatred, he does not possess. In his works, Socrates claims that repetition of just acts will gain one the virtue of justice by habit. In Seinfeld, George seems to gain his awful personality through the constant repetition of selfish and empty acts. While Aristotle directs men to judge themselves by their real goods, George seems to judge himself comparatively to others as he perceives that the only happiness is something that he does not possess. In George’s mind, any situation breeds winners and losers. As a result, the only fleeting happiness George experiences consists of insignificant perceived victories over others. These victories give him only momentary happiness before he forces himself into despair as a result of a perceived loss. While Aristotle stresses moderation between the extremes, George continually shows extreme behavior as a result of either his laziness or his search for pleasure, another perceived good. This behavior never leads to any sustained happiness, but only to the same pathetic state that George occupied before.