Just Say No
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No, you're right.
If anyone actually cares about the future of a functioning society, solipsism has to be put on a the back-burner.
There is a reason why the most successful nations in history had stringent rules on conduct and policy; family and economics. If you don't have these rules in place the entire system breaks down and fails (as we've seen time and time over again where the rules are ignored/broken and by proxy the entire infrastructure eventually collapses).
If people are making decisions, enabling policies and opening the door for decay, then it will eventually spread and it will eventually rot the moral and social columns of the social infrastructure, and inevitably cause a collapse.
It's not a matter of saying "No", just to be "evil" and selfish, but saying "No" for the sustained betterment of mankind.
No, you’re right! Great points all around.
The neoliberal/neoconservative death spiral of the last hundred years is like the Tragedy of the Commons on steroids, or maybe on estrogen-mimicking phytohormones
We must give up some amount of our individual desires and wants for the good of the whole then?
That's kind of how it's always been for some societies to be successful. There's always a give and take, both on the micro-level with inter-personal relationships (i.e., how to have a sustainable marriage) and on the macro-level with extra-personal relationships (i.e., workforce, municipality, republic/democratic/monarchical engagement).
There is always going to be some level of individualism you need to keep to maintain self-worth and self-determined valuation, while also having to give some of it up for the collective good. It's a fine balancing act, as one of too much or the other leads to collapse, which is typically why most successful nations have found that balance through some form of theocracy.
I’m not religious but am frightened by what people that lack it seem to believe. I greatly dislike the idea that my morals should come from a higher being but without it people start cutting up kids and telling them they’re the opposite sex while simultaneously saying that the opposite sex doesn’t have anything to do with what body parts you have.
It’s insane! I’d rather live among real Christians than atheist.