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Hello world… This is my rough draft’s intro for a paper I’m developing. I’m not quite sure where it’s going, but I feel like it’d be of interest to some of you. If you have any suggestions/comments/corrections, please, message me. Like I said, it’s a rough draft. :) Thank- YouNoam Chomsky quotes Ernst Mayr’s idea that “the human form of intellectual organization may not be favored by selection in, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance” (2003). “The history of life on earth”, he wrote, “refuses the claim that ‘it is better to be smart than to be stupid’”. We may be rational beings and intelligent due to our ability to reason, but when it comes to government affairs, we have yet evolved with the capacity to put aside our own interest for the interests of the general public. The system of capitalism isn’t flawed, however it puts too much trust in human nature and its ability to morally reason. According to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, government is a natural social manifestation used and it is needed to maintain peaceful relationships between citizens because humans naturally seek to pursue their own interests (which naturally conflict with the interests of others). We are naturally animalistic, meaning, we are built with the ultimate will to survival. Not to confuse the human being with being negatively selfish, we just naturally look out for ourselves (and if applicable, our offspring), because we know that once we reach the ability to independently look out for ourselves, no one else is going to take care of us. The only person who has the ability to truly know what is right for them is the individual itself. We need some type of law to help keep us in order. The government’s role is to ensure that each person is equally safe and able to pursue whatever they need to survive, but with the key concept of sharing that right. With sharing comes compromise, and government should ensure those compromises are fair and do not impose on others. According to Kant, Humans are not evil by nature, nor are they naturally good, however, we have evolved the critical and analytic capability to morally reason. Therefore, politicians carry the moral responsibility to provide laws promoting the human condition. Unfortunately, our government has gradually drifted from the ideal in the pursuit of world sovereignty. Politicians involved in corporate globalization, have failed to compromise by the laws of nature. Belief in American exceptionalism disregard laws mentioned in the US constitution and the UN’s UDHR. Their refusal to acknowledge the consequences of past and current actions are having a negative domino effect that’s profoundly impacting our right to live. Solid moral values are seriously lacking in american corporate globalization, and intervention needs to take place. If not, we jeopardize our natural right to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Reminder, I’m not quite sure where I’m going with this. I just checked for minor grammar and spelling mistakes. It is a rough draft. :) Thank-you |
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“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals” - Immanual Kant |
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LOL… Guilty. (Source: thefuuuucomics, via the-absolute-funniest-posts) |
"So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong. Oppression is not about hurt feelings. It is about the rights and opportunities that are not afforded to you because you belong to a certain group of people. When you use a racist slur you imply that non-whiteness is a bad thing, and thus publicly reinforce a system that denies POC the rights and opportunities of white people. Calling a white person a racist fuckhead doesn’t do any of that. Yes, it’s not very nice. And how effective it is as a tactic is definitely up for debate (that’s a whole other blog post). But it’s not oppression." |
To the religiously biased community:“Our Creator doesn’t play favorites. We’ve all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.” - Anthony Robbins, Awake the Giant Within |
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Shirley Manson“What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.” |
