(10-22-2023, 07:18 PM)quintessentone Wrote:Reason for a World Government?(10-22-2023, 07:04 PM)ANNEE Wrote:(10-22-2023, 06:45 PM)Grace Wrote:I believe, honestly, majority of people are in the middle on almost all issues -- especially politically. I believe the majority are fiscal conservative/social liberal. But, they don't make "noise".(10-22-2023, 06:14 PM)ANNEE Wrote: Nicely put.
But don't you think if the rules say "no name calling" -- those rules should be followed and enforced?
If you're not debating the issue and only attacking the other person -- those rules should also be followed and enforced.
Which BTW -- has been brought to attention multiple times -- and literally brushed aside into the round file.
My only real complaint -- but I promised no more personal complaints. Carry on.
ANNEE
Rules are made to keep order and decorum as well as general safety, and when applied to everyone equally created a positive environment for everyone.
However, when people or a group of people decide their "cause" or "position" is somehow morally superior such that they stop believing the rules should apply equally to them, and then they achieve actual power, the rules won't be applied to themselves, because they are in a position to apply enforcement unequally however their broken moral compass leads them.
Many businesses just don't care so long as it doesn't interfere with the ol' income stream, and so the most determined gains more power to influence.
Many elements of the left believe themselves morally superior, and have a match with many elements of the right who likewise believe themselves morally superior.
And so people who just want to grab a little information and maybe take the time to debate a topic important to them are the ones out in the cold because we are surrounded on all sides by those who have decided their position is morally superior to all others.
There's no compromise or even room for discussion in that and so we get thrown out or otherwise silenced and put down.
That's the world we are living in.
It's the extremists on both sides that make all the noise. Therefore, they really are not representative of the majority.
Then we have those that are affected emotionally. That can be swayed by "the noise". Lobbying on all levels.
Those are the ones who scare me because they have no true conviction in matters that matter.
Those who scare me are the warmongers that think using nukes is ok. I hope that type of mentality is always ignored by those that have the actual power in all that matters.
Which we already effectively have -- except for a couple renegades.