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jm1234567890
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yes, not everyone can be happy.cherryblossom said:
But I tend to think for the world to operate efficently people who are in the minorty should fall in line, in a social sence anyway.
and yes I've been criticised for this view, but i'm not sure how else thing would work well.
I guess I'm thinking of the world as a machine....
hmm so as long as the rich westerners are happy everything is all good...:/ it's your opinion, you're allowed to have it...no one agrees with me eitherjm1234567890 said:
I got shot down just then in Pols...I don't think it's that they don't want to fall into line. when countries are what, fifty, seventy, even a hundred years behind industrially, they simply cannot adhere to the moral and ethical standards of for example the G8 nations
jm1234567890
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I want everyone to be happy, that is what's fundamentally wrong with my thoughts I think....cherryblossom said:hmm so as long as the rich westerners are happy everything is all good...:/ it's your opinion, you're allowed to have it...no one agrees with me either
I don't think it's that they don't want to fall into line. when countries are what, fifty, seventy, even a hundred years behind industrially, they simply cannot adhere to the moral and ethical standards of for example the G8 nations
jm1234567890
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thankscherryblossom said:aw I dont think so. it's not wrong just...impractical. I want everyone to be happy too.
I don't know what ziff was talking about when he said the gong is full of dumbasses
the gong isn't as bad as people say.
Happiness is a social construct, what you perceive as 'happy' is different to someone who has been brought up to be 'happy' with what they have.
I think the flaw everyone has when trying to apply an overbearing singular blanket idea is that we assume that a single perspective is 'better' than another.
This hierachy is evident in everything we do, the reason why we are not equal is because through the colonial and conquering of lands, and the want of power of those with it, they have set up the status quo, and in doing so implement systems which ensure their survival and keep reproducing this disparity between those with power and privilege and the 'others'
I think the flaw everyone has when trying to apply an overbearing singular blanket idea is that we assume that a single perspective is 'better' than another.
This hierachy is evident in everything we do, the reason why we are not equal is because through the colonial and conquering of lands, and the want of power of those with it, they have set up the status quo, and in doing so implement systems which ensure their survival and keep reproducing this disparity between those with power and privilege and the 'others'
poloktim
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If people fall in line everyone loses happiness. Have you read Brave New World? There's an example of a "truly happy" society. It's as dystopic as anything can get because there is no free view. Everyone has fallen in line.jm1234567890 said:
If we're going to make global standards, then we should stick to them. Invading another soverignty is not on that list of standards.
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Uday commited his fair share of crime, especially against women.transcendent said:
jm1234567890
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yes, I know...poloktim said:
I guess you can't engineer society in the way you make machines....
But then, why does democracy work? Isn't the whole idea of that to give everyone a say so that policy decisions can be made to benefit the majority? Where the people who disagree have to just live with it and fall in line?
wrong_turn
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i read brave new world. that book really is a history book if i ever see one!!
poloktim
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Whether or not democracy works is very subjective. I think it works, but not others. Otherwise we wouldn't have the "Socialist Alliance." *snicker*jm1234567890 said:
transcendent
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Xiaoie wants his mumma cause he knows the Oedipus Complex all too well