Full Idea
The ideal opposition between good and evil has been reduced to the idealogical oppositions between happiness and misfortune. The reduction of good to happiness is as baneful as that of evil to misfortune.
Gist of Idea
Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune
Source
Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p.139)
Book Reference
Baudrillard,Jean: 'The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact' [Berg 2005], p.139
A Reaction
A nice example is the use in the media of the word 'tragic' for every misfortune. See the debate over the translation of the Greek 'eudaimonia'. 'Happiness' seems the wrong translation, if it leads to comments like Baudrillard's.