How would you change the world? (no politics)
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ctwo
Merely Rhetorical
1. Stop reproducing, unless a clear societal need and a means to care for and raise that child to be a productive member of society has been established. I have no tolerance for people who want to make puppies in their own image who are then later cast out as burdens to society.
2. Be responsible for your own care and livelihood and act with integrity. There are far too many people who just leach off society or create obstacles to survival to satisfy their own selfish interests.
3 Make something of value. There's too much crap, services, and other programs that provide no tangible value to society. Some of it exists just to mitigate the issues caused by the products of not meeting the first two items.
2. Be responsible for your own care and livelihood and act with integrity. There are far too many people who just leach off society or create obstacles to survival to satisfy their own selfish interests.
3 Make something of value. There's too much crap, services, and other programs that provide no tangible value to society. Some of it exists just to mitigate the issues caused by the products of not meeting the first two items.
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East Bay Mike
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1. Practice more mindfulness.
2. Have compassion for others.
3. Think critically.
2. Have compassion for others.
3. Think critically.
cheez
Master Of The Darkside
1. Stop telling people how to be and start being how they should be.
2. Acknowledge that everyone's experience differs, everyone's experience is valid, and respect their perspective even if it conflicts with yours at the most fundamental levels.
3. Speak truths, and reject falsehoods. Things that are objectively certain are not up for debate- reject the debate rather than the assertion, and impeach the falsehood by asserting the fact.
2. Acknowledge that everyone's experience differs, everyone's experience is valid, and respect their perspective even if it conflicts with yours at the most fundamental levels.
3. Speak truths, and reject falsehoods. Things that are objectively certain are not up for debate- reject the debate rather than the assertion, and impeach the falsehood by asserting the fact.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
afm199
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Some great ideas here.
I'll throw out that my experience of the Covid Crisis has shown me that people can act with lots of concern for others. The distancing, courtesy, and mask usage in the Bay Area has been amazing to me. I'm experiencing others as acting with much more concern.
So my answer would be a a common and deadly crisis.
I'll throw out that my experience of the Covid Crisis has shown me that people can act with lots of concern for others. The distancing, courtesy, and mask usage in the Bay Area has been amazing to me. I'm experiencing others as acting with much more concern.
So my answer would be a a common and deadly crisis.
nebulous
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mercurial
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These two are, taken at complete face value, almost completely incompatible with each other.
FWIW I'm not sure how this thread ends up being more than just veiled politics. ctwo and cheez's politics bleed 100% into their posts.
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afm199
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Indeed. Female genital mutilation and stoning women who are raped are legitimate! There, I got all three in one fell swoop.
The problem with moral relativism is that it fails to take into account Maslow's hierarchy of need. The people on the bottom of the hierarchy have to basically resort to any means to grasp power/property/food. That leaves them without any basic morality. That leads to terrible things.
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afm199
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:thumbup Nice one liner. I like that.
jdhu
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As global dictator, everyone would read this book. The change will be sudden and incredible.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Peace-Resolving-Heart-Conflict/dp/1626564310
afm199
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littlebeast
get it while it's easy
i’d go with the concept of the ideal praise-to-criticism ratio (5.6 to 1). it was identified through research into how to help business leaders develop high performance teams (loosely simplified: what promotes an environment where everyone can do their best). i’d teach this concept and take it a step further. not only teach / train / encourage people to say / do 6 (rounding up) positive things for every 1 negative, but also keep that ratio in every other aspect of their life (if something makes you unhappy, deliberately do 6 other things that make you happy).
i know that may sound silly - but misery is highly contagious (and really does love company). if it were possible to inoculate ourselves against it (following the often quoted ‘put your own oxygen mask on first and then help others with theirs’), i think we’d be on the right path.
i know that may sound silly - but misery is highly contagious (and really does love company). if it were possible to inoculate ourselves against it (following the often quoted ‘put your own oxygen mask on first and then help others with theirs’), i think we’d be on the right path.