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Date Posted: 06:30:44 10/28/02 Mon
Author: globaleye
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Re: What can AAH do about it?
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "What can AAH do about it?" on 09:47:18 09/24/02 Tue

>I used to think that if EVERYBODY would get ALL of the
>basic necessities then we would have eliminated the
>need for so many to be "bad". But, apparently, many
>bad people have been far from poor as children, and
>have had a good educational background. So what
>incentives are required for more people to be GOOD,
>and fewer people to be bad?
>..... In theory all babies, infants, children, etc.
>have rights. To be well-fed with sufficient and
>nourishing food, to be loved, and getting at least all
>necessary basic necessities. There seem to be too many
>people. In my view NO babies at all should be
>conceived in famine areas, nor where there are too
>many people already with too few jobs, where there is
>bound to be a lot of misery at times. There are
>(regular?) economic cycles with their boom times and
>recessions; politicians still have not learned how to
>deal with these properly in time, to anticipate
>problems and apply PREVENTIVE solutions that would
>also prevent a lot of misery-based hatreds. What could
>an Army Against Hate (AAH) do about that?
>
>..... Nobody seems to know how to change conflicts in
>the proper direction so that there is a long-term
>solution. It's like a fire that is out of control;
>it's battled by many well-meaning people with not
>enough resources but lots of (empty?) useless
>rhetoric, and when the fire seems to be out here then
>it starts again later here, or even worse in another
>place. What could the AAH do about that????
>
>..... Unfortunately it is far easier to send people to
>the moon, or elsewhere into space, even to send
>unpeopled probes to planets, than it is to get people
>to help one another, and provide suitable living
>accomodations and jobs for all. And we call ourselves
>"civilized"?

It is easier to send a man to the moon....

Perhaps, therein lies the secret. Is there a common goal? Do we have one? Can we have one? Or will we all forever plod along hamstrung by our Egos?

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Replies:

Re: What can AAH do about it? -- TJ, 18:42:23 10/29/02 Tue
- Re: What can AAH do about it? -- QUITTNER, 09:41:42 11/26/02 Tue
  - Re: What can AAH do about it? -- TJ, 11:21:25 11/27/02 Wed
    - Re: What can AAH do about it? -- QUITTNER, 12:02:35 11/28/02 Thu
      - Re: What can AAH do about it? -- TJ, 11:32:13 11/29/02 Fri