If I choose to be right, it means I have satisfied the moral expectations of the people around me, and most probably, my own moral expectations as well. The error is that whenever we say ‘right’ we expect that it follows that we find ‘pleasure’ in doing this ‘right’ thing. When in fact, a right thing basically means something that is done in accordance with a set of values, and doing them does not mean it will give pleasure to any human being that chooses to do this ‘right’ thing.

The question provides that even though I am right, I am still sad. Therefore, this right action I have done did not give me any sense of pleasure, from which I will conclude that this ‘right’ action does not abide by my nature, it does not preserve me, it contradicts me (since anything that does not preserve us contradicts us, this is not false dichotomy, if there would be anything in between, that is just like saying that there are ‘absolutely meaningless, useless’ actions that exist in this world). If it contradicts my nature, it is, in truth, ‘wrong’ for me. However, since I believe my society and its moral beliefs, I seem and choose to think that this action is ‘right’, but in the end, I am still sad.

And so I reaffirm, I would rather be wrong but happy.