Then the individual must determine why one way of pursuing goals is better than another. The answers are found in the common nature of human beings. We have the same innate needs. Among these needs are health, stamina, pleasure, opportunity, freedom, knowledge, skill, friendship, love, self-esteem, and deserved honor. Most important, we need good habits and intellectual virtues which enable us to make good choices with ease.
All human beings have the same ethical obligation to fulfill their innate needs.
We recognize that all human beings have the same rights because they ought to fulfill their needs and achieve happiness. The Southampton Public School System is committed to an education which will provide its members with the means to discern how one ought to live well in pursuit of happiness through unselfish self-fulfillment.