Why would people drag 'happiness' into social organization? Whether a person is happy or sad, grumpy or cheerful, bluff or dour, sociable or reclusive...
Okay. You have a certain set of assumptions about humans. Mine are slightly different, and my idea of a good society - one that aspires to incremental...
Yes, I get that. It's like someone believing they know what's 'optimal', but they don't specify any metrics or benchmarks. The ideal, like the optimal...
If you believe it to be unreachable. And yet, in order for the traveler to keep striding, the horizon has keep receding. "This still sucks, but it's a...
That's what they did, and are doing. But not because they're trying to behave the way Jesus is fabled to or according to his advice; it's because they...
These are never individual endeavours. If you read the Utopian literature, you'll find that a lot of people, in different times, have had similar idea...
What's the point of aiming for a compromise? If you want to go to Hollywood, you don't set your sights on Flagstaff and plan to reassess. If Flagstaff...
On reading over this, not participating looks like the best option. Can't help forming a picture in my mind, though, and that will amuse till I fall a...
If there were no rules, or chaos, the universe could not organize itself into galaxies, nebulae, suns and planets, compounds, molecules, life forms. F...
You didn't look at the tutorial - or a dictionary. Take another shot? Human gestation begins at the moment of fertilization (conception) and proceeds ...
A baby is not inside the womb, or anywhere else, without conception. It doesn't exist; therefore it cannot be alive. That's pretty much the point ofco...
Whom are you quoting? Nobody can a kill a baby that was never conceived, but one that was brought into the world though coercion or brainwashing is pr...
That may be fine or horrific, depending on who defines "immoral" and what they mean by restraint. If you mean stop people from beating and raping one ...
In a well-regulated egalitarian society, it's quite easy. It's not even hard to have consensual intimate relations or protracted marital commitment wi...
Without even trying. I said a good society would let women make their own decisions as to the bearing of young. My purpose in saying so had little to ...
And the threat being perceived. The protection of loved kin and territory is also a strong animal instinct. But there is a huge difference between wil...
That's how we turned vegetarian. When we moved to the country, my OG asked where he should build the chicken coop. I said, we're not having chickens. ...
Why should women in a good society need men to 'provide for' them? Every member of a society has obligations, but they do not include submitting one's...
Ad yet Australians (relation to natives notwithstanding) have always been valiant in their aid of their sovereign (who was not even of their physical ...
No, that will take two generations of contentment and new horizons. The first fifty years or so would be full of strife, claims and counterclaims, old...
War can be made redundant - along with the unimaginable waste of resources we currently plough into armaments, spying, vehicles and other expensive wi...
"Love" is a great big, amorphous, elastic Santa sack of a word. For some people, love of country means being loyal to the hierarchy of that country - ...
They do, like it or not. And vice versa. But the influence of each on each is so diluted by numbers that it makes no discernible ripple in our persona...
Not up to you or me whether the universe continues. Chances are, it will proceed regardless of our sense of its worth. If you don't want to stay in it...
What Russia became after Stalin was the devolution of the Stalin era. The satellite states more or less broke away but inherited the basic structure o...
...especially if you have kidney stone, three kids and a wife working two jobs... Okay, so then France will welcome all 4000 of us? The people at the ...
Happiness wasn't even on the agenda. The final goal of the idea was the physical welfare of every member of society. The interim goals were to wrest p...
Not really. It's a comment on dysfunctional societies. The poor and afflicted have options? Other countries welcome them? Nor do spiritual advisors 'k...
Yes, they do. They're bullied into it. More appropriately, they should be mad as hell. Instead of escaping into 'spiritual' whatnot, they should rise ...
No, it means you don't need the deep mental anguish in the first place; you're imposing it on yourself for no good reason. Because history wasn't writ...
Which was? This can't happen, so why bother thinking about it? So why bother responding to it? We could. It's harder now we've overcomplicated and pis...
Isn't being the same reindeer throughout space and time an essential element of what it is to be reindeer? It's an essential part of consciousness. Th...
God coulda this, god coulda that... No, he bloody couldn't, because God doesn't exist! It doesn't matter whether people are resentful or grateful, hap...
Without pain - no; so long as biology and physics prevail, biological entities equipped with a nervous system cannot avoid some pain. A good society w...
Most bosses are. And maybe you could do their job as well as they do, and maybe you could do the jobs of every other employee - or maybe not. I don't ...
I went into town today and got a brand new space-age library card. It's a little wee tag that goes on my keychain. Go away for a mere decade, and they...
Fine. But it doesn't answer the OP question. If you don't raise kids, you have no values to impart. If you don't generate offspring but bring some up ...
Lots of people have kids without having thought it out. Just seems to be the natural thing to do. (It is.) Many couples want a baby as a testament to ...
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