Well much normal contentment can come from wrong view. And if we are sowing unbeneficial seeds, we may think it is ok, but the result will not be ok for us. Some people think their aversion is good, E.g. are content with that, but if we examine with awareness in the mind, we start to see that aversion does have results for ourselves, whether we think it's good to get angry or not. So there is an immediate result arising due to the inherent law of cause and effect in the mind. Something may be pleasant in the present, for example desire, but the result of that may not be so good for us, if it actually increases the force of desire in the mind.
We may be content with desire, because it is very pleasant. However some desires bring a lot of suffering, not only to ourselves, but to others. So it is not really just our opinion about it, it is the basic law of cause and effect. However when we do good actions and we don't have the ability to reflect on them, we may not be able to feel content with them, because we are lost in a wrong view about ourselves. So this is why we continually stress Right View and Right Thinking, so that we can start to see things more truly as they are. Pol Pot may have died peacefully, but all the other people he caused to die may not. And, we do not actually know what happened after his death, do we?