Q. How often do you make an effort to practice your strengths and virtues? Are these traits key to a happy life?

I could say that I always practice few good virtues. One is the act of forgiveness. I'm always willing to forgive. Forgiving brings freedom, joy and peace to my heart and mind. It dissolves revenge and anger.

According to Aristotle, the most important factor in the effort to achieve happiness is to have a good moral character, "complete virtue". Thus, those traits I practice are key to a happy life.

Q. For some, happiness relies on money. In some cases, hacking means money. Would you do hacking if its outcome is a sure happiness of your family? What particular Aristotle theory contradicts this concept?

Happiness in a family is everyone's wish. But achieving happiness by doing something unethical is not pure happiness.

Let's take for example in the case of hacking. Hacking is unethical depending on our objective on doing it. When we hack because we want to acquire information, that is stealing, therefore an unethical act. I will not hack merely for the purpose stealing to give happiness to my family.

I did hacked but never cracked. I used my computer skills to figure out vulnerabilities in a computer system, but never to steal information.

"Hacking for our family's happiness" contradicts Aristotle theory on Golden Mean. "Happiness depends on acquiring a moral character, where one displays the virtues of courage, generosity, justice, friendship, and citizenship in one’s life."