Had an Epiphany
This is embarrassingly simple. While listening to a podcast where somebody was railing about stuff going on in DC something dawned on me that brought me back to the last philosophy class in college. It was Philosophy 331: Ethics. As an engineer I didn't belong. I took it for the fun of it. With what I'm seeing going on here in California and in DC, combined with all the riots, fistfights on planes, ISIS throwing lbgt off of tall buildings, parents being threatened for not giving up a seat that they paid for on a flight, on and on...it hit me. "Leave each other alone." Pretty simple, huh? I do try to teach my kids the value in this regularly. Imagine if that was a basic value that society just cherished and instilled in their kids - agreed to live by. Just leave people the hell alone. When you see it violated, take a stand. The news would get so boring. People would live longer.
Instead, we agree to be bossed around by people in fancy suits that other people voted for, by rent-a-cops with glocks, etc. What a concept, I know. Just leave other people alone.
That's the first Jack Handy Deep Thought I've had in a long time. Back to reality...
Instead, we agree to be bossed around by people in fancy suits that other people voted for, by rent-a-cops with glocks, etc. What a concept, I know. Just leave other people alone.
That's the first Jack Handy Deep Thought I've had in a long time. Back to reality...
Those who want power over you and
Those who want you to have power over yourself.
Each day we get to decide a thousand times which person we are.
1. Try not to bother other people.
2. If you're other people, try not to be bothered too easily.
Do unto others as you would have them do to you
Don't do that which is hurtful to others
Do only good, not evil
The list is long and most likely incomplete. I do like yours. It is simple and direct and covers the whole gamut .
Well Said.
+1
The Hippocratic oath captures a thought suitable for all of us: "First, do no harm."
"Leave other people alone" sounds good, but what if you see they need help? All simplistic philosophical statements carry some baggage, even the Golden Rule. The do unto others part sounds good, but cultural differences can turn this upside down. Admonitions to "do good, not evil" carry the assumption that we all agree on which is good, and which is evil.
The bad news is that the world is more complicated than we wish. The good news is that it's so complicated that there's always a solution if we look long enough to find it.
Ah, now I'm thinking of a community organizer in particular. All he ever produced was BS.
The most dangerous thing in the universe is high intelligence not guided by reason.
I recall when the repub turned demo senator fro PA.(dead now) had a town hall meeting pushing obamacare and one audience guy said can't you just leave us alone. government employees otherwise known as CIVIL SERVANTS (which they don't believe they are) don't know how to leave us alone. The government sets the agenda so that is how a major segment of the population function. That is also why we have a growing population of crooks. we the people except us on the gulch learn from the civil servants way of doing things.
Why, that's like a physics student in philosophy!
Or a philosophy student in physics!
Perish the thought!
Anyone on Facebook is invited to visit the page DC delenda est and give it a like.
Also, that's the theory behind Mark Hamilton's Prime Law...which, I have observed, underlies our constitution.
Leave me alone, if you screw with me, your toast. If I screw with you, I'm toast...with all this toast, we're gona run out of butter and jam.
We are FAR from perfect, but the arc of history bends slowly toward leaving one another in peace.
Madison is nice. People are friendly, most people are educated, and there's a culture of stoicism and hard work. It's not for everyone because of the liberal politics and continental climate.
I always hear that CA is crazy, but I never hear how. The fact that there are so many chemicals "known to the state of CA" to be hazardous, though, gives me an inkling.