wellwisher
Well-Known Member
In an age where shallow and superficial criteria are used to divide people. I like to look for ways to unite people. It may be useful to considered ways to reduce the number of divides, to a much smaller set. Back in the 1970's when I was a teen, the divide was the summarized by the slogan, so not trust anyone over 30. This made two teams for everybody; male, female, black and white, all ethnicities, nerds and jocks, etc., were teamed up by age. Any household would have the same two teams; adults and children, that would compare notes with neighbors and friends. It was awesome with family and neighborly love allowing the experiment; black and white children; boys and girls, versus black and white parents.
I am not sure if this would work today since the family is more broken and there is less love and character development. Classically, this can also be done with the divide of good and evil. This divide implies, that within all the superficial divides of culture, like religion/atheism, black/white, male/ female, Liberal/Conservative, jock/nerd, etc., there would be good and evil members on all the teams; on both sides.
The shallow and superficial divides of skin color and sex, although innate but does not control choices of good and evil; rob, assault, lie, etc. The rest of the philosophical divides can be learned or trained. However, there may be deeper innate behavior, like the stages of life divide, more fundamental; common to within groups, that exist apart from any outside training.
This would be similar to how some people are naturally good at athletics, math, literature, dance, song, etc. These innate celebrated behavior listed are true of the religious and atheists, males and females, black and white, etc. Good and evil, by being innately different, could account for the difficulty in retraining most criminals, to become positive members of culture; that is not them.
As an example, say there was an elderly lady trying to cross a road where there is traffic. A good person might empathize with her problem, and try to help her. Some will also empathize, but may not do anything out of a sense of risk or not wanting to get involvement; good empathy but limited.
The evil minded person will not see an old lady in distress, but an easy victim. She is ripe to get her pocketbook stolen, since she cannot give chase or cross the traffic. Like those who can empathize, but may not get involved, evil may do the opposite and pretend to help her, getting her to hand him her purse and her bags, so he can steal it easier. He is not as evil as the one who innate wants to intimidate or beat down, but he still is a predator.
The question I have is, do members of all the various groups and opposite sides, notice good and evil people in their chosen clan or side?They may be true to the clan, but this has to do with their approach. Ideas like relative morality could allow the evil to hide in plain sight. But they will typically go a little too far, too eagerly, for the cause. This contrasts with those who will try to stay within the bounds of a their clan philosophy, without getting underhanded. This may be an Atheist with a good moral code.
I am not sure if this would work today since the family is more broken and there is less love and character development. Classically, this can also be done with the divide of good and evil. This divide implies, that within all the superficial divides of culture, like religion/atheism, black/white, male/ female, Liberal/Conservative, jock/nerd, etc., there would be good and evil members on all the teams; on both sides.
The shallow and superficial divides of skin color and sex, although innate but does not control choices of good and evil; rob, assault, lie, etc. The rest of the philosophical divides can be learned or trained. However, there may be deeper innate behavior, like the stages of life divide, more fundamental; common to within groups, that exist apart from any outside training.
This would be similar to how some people are naturally good at athletics, math, literature, dance, song, etc. These innate celebrated behavior listed are true of the religious and atheists, males and females, black and white, etc. Good and evil, by being innately different, could account for the difficulty in retraining most criminals, to become positive members of culture; that is not them.
As an example, say there was an elderly lady trying to cross a road where there is traffic. A good person might empathize with her problem, and try to help her. Some will also empathize, but may not do anything out of a sense of risk or not wanting to get involvement; good empathy but limited.
The evil minded person will not see an old lady in distress, but an easy victim. She is ripe to get her pocketbook stolen, since she cannot give chase or cross the traffic. Like those who can empathize, but may not get involved, evil may do the opposite and pretend to help her, getting her to hand him her purse and her bags, so he can steal it easier. He is not as evil as the one who innate wants to intimidate or beat down, but he still is a predator.
The question I have is, do members of all the various groups and opposite sides, notice good and evil people in their chosen clan or side?They may be true to the clan, but this has to do with their approach. Ideas like relative morality could allow the evil to hide in plain sight. But they will typically go a little too far, too eagerly, for the cause. This contrasts with those who will try to stay within the bounds of a their clan philosophy, without getting underhanded. This may be an Atheist with a good moral code.
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