Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The source of all Disputes

The only real rule to society should be:

  • Don’t associate yourself with controlling people
  • And if you don’t control others unless agreed upon, then you’ll have more friends around you.
  • And to settle which person has to move out of the area in an actual argument, It’s done by majority rule as a mediation. Or just kick them both out. Just like in tribal cultures.

Now to explain the reasoning behind the above ideas.

These days, disputes are settled by arguing, fighting, and war. But that can change.

  • Fact: Different views and ways of life are just as valid as yours, or work just as well because in this universe there are always multiple ways of doing the same thing. Case in point: The cavemen were just as good at surviving at life as us, and may have even had less work to do during the day to maintain their standard of living, although lower.
  • Fact: Nothing is really yours. Everything is actually part of the universe, and will be returned to it after you’re done temporarily using it. Possession is a human construct, and needs humans to enforce the rule.
  • Fact: In the real universe there is no war. Only humans have war and it is unique in the history of the universe only to humans. It is only used by humans to solve arguments.
  • Fact: Cash value is a human invention. So if you live in a tribal egalitarian society there is no need to steel. Just help your friend and they will help you. And the only value in an object is time taken in building it and materials cost. But you can give your extra time as charity or for fun or just something to pass the time. And you can collect materials for free from your surrounding wilderness, and get them at a distance with simple trade. In egalitarianism.
  • Fact: Rules are a human invention used to control other humans. Usually made by people in power to maintain power. If you have to make a rule to not kill another human, then you're living around the wrong kinds of people to begin with. People can only force you to do things if you let them, or allow people controlling you, to be a possibility in the first place.
  • Fact: There is always going to be a percentage of the population that is clinically insane. So the object is to not live around those people. And to let them make each other’s life miserable.
  • Fact: There is no such thing as vandalism in the real universe, if there are no possessions. But it is an indicator of insane/dangerous people behind the vandalism.
  • Fact: There is never a need to judge others way of life, it’s their choice not yours to make for them.
  • Fact: In the real world there is no such thing as likes and dislikes. Only a fact based logical universe. Case in point: One person can like and dislike some things, while another person can like and dislike totally different things. I predict that children are less prone to ideals breaking up friendships, and therefor they have more friends, because they haven't learned extreme likes and dislikes yet. And by the way, they stay away from controlling people (AKA: Bullies, which now have less friends).
The key to all disputes is one person liking something too much and another person disliking the same thing too much. If one of them didn't like or dislike that thing so much there would never have been an argument. It is only when 2 extreme likes and dislikes clash that there is ever a dispute. Case in point: Cows don't seem to dislike being couped up in a small field their whole lives. So they don't tend to fight with us ever. So the goal to life is to not like and dislike things too much. And at that point you'll never have any more arguments. But of course you would want to make your life progress somewhat, rather than just stagnate like a happy cow, content living in a tiny field for the rest of your life. But when your life has already improved to the point where practically no more significant improvement is possible, I.E.(in effect) In a utopia, then you no longer need to disagree with any part of life too fanatically. And you can now be a happy society with no reason to complain. In your homemade utopia, only incorporate people into it that don't have extreme likes and dislikes, which are argumentative. But I tested this thought process and it gets extremely boring not having any likes or dislikes(imagine not liking anything). So in the end you need to have some emotions that make life interesting. So the 2 ways to live without arguing are either be around like minded people, or don't have likes or dislikes in the first place, that can clash with anyone else's.

You might argue:

We have to help our fellow man. Or. Don’t you care about other people?

We don’t call people like Saddam Hussein “our fellow man”. Also would you have empathy if you had a proven utopia and people still chose to either start fights or live around the people who started fights. And cause their own torment?

Benjamin Franklin said it best “People get the government they deserve”.

The best way to solve an argument, is to not be around people who start them.

To see a couple of facts that I found out about the way I looked at the world as a very young kid, see: Mind of a child

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