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RE: Do We Choose the Power to Do Right, or the Power to Do Wrong?
Unfortunately, the ones that should read and react to this type of information are in that denial you are talking about. I was thinking that the only way things can be radically improved is through education. Public education could be the most handy tool but it's not used to help children think and get responsible for their actions but to create obedient future workers.
Where do you see the starting point of this change? (with each of us would be the perfect answer but we all now that thinking of the future impact and the harm done on others is not the biggest human attribute at this point)
Yeah, morality... philosophy... psychology... don't see that being taught lol. The start is each individual evolving consciousness and uniting with those on the same goal and at the same level of moral alignment. Those who accept the immorality of rape won't be uniting with those who deny it being immoral. And on and on it goes. Morality is was determines the unity and formation of a community. Big groups go towards central leaders and authority because people's voices can't be heard to a central point around which everyone rotates forms. Thinking for ourselves goes out the window, as it's one or a group of people that does the thinking for us lol.
What I've noticed around me is that people doing good are less likely to unite as each of them have a different perspective on what good or moral is. And no leader is good enough as they search for perfection
No leader is good enough, people need to lead themselves. The moral or good point to align on has to do with the actions we do that harm others. People who don't accept rape won't unite with those that do, nor will those who don't accept theft unite with those that do. If someone recognizes nonhumans as having their own lives that merit being free from our dominance and oppression of them, while others don't and continue to perpetuate enslavement and murder of innocent beings who did them no harm, then they can't logically unite to live together either. Some people want to be better, while others want to deny the wrong they do, so they walk different paths in life. We can communicate to influence change in others. We can unite with those on the same path and moral commitment, or those who seek to improve their moral commitment because they understand why something is better.
No perfection, only the striving to perfection, towards what can be better. Being and becoming. Here is an inforgraphic that relates some of this process.
There is the truth of where we are now, and the truer potential of where we can be by becoming it:
I see your point here and I think it can work perfectly in theory and in small communities. I'm still thinking how can this be implemented on a global level. Thank you for the answer, a lot of work from your side to put all the ideas together. It this raised questions in the mind of at least 1 person it would be great. You are doing an amazing job raising awareness on such important subjects.
It easier smaller indeed. Imagine though, thousands of smaller groups that interconnect. They could be in different locations, but they would have a psychological connection that could increase and influence the rest of people to change their ways as well. Uniting in common foundations of morality to change the way things are. Abolitionists had to unite against slavery, because most people were in favor of that way of life and were against abolition at first.