How Do We Make Society Better?

[_Doctor Steuss]

My solution to help make society better:

Don’t be a dick.

[_Jersey Girl]

10) All churches will be taxed because, come the “F” on, enough with that scam.

100% agree.

[_Themis]

The video agrees 99% with my world view and opinion on the "two kinds of people" that make up humanity. Group-think and individual-think. Group-think believes that more government/laws are always necessary to address each recognized ill in society.

Group think is where people look to their group for their own beliefs. It's not about more government or more laws. It is alive and well on both sides of the political divide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

[_Kevin Graham]

Group think is where people look to their group for their own beliefs. It's not about more government or more laws. It is alive and well on both sides of the political divide.

And CeeBoo is a textbook example. He demonstrates no thoughts of his own. When asked about his specific views, he tells us to consult some stranger on the internet to ascertain what he believes. A talk radio preacher who lectures and never answers to critical examination of his views.

[_Jersey Girl]

This is how I would make society better:

1) Government mandated birth control. Everyone who isn't snipped or menopaused is on birth control, to include male birth control. <- Game changer when that comes available.

2) You need to demonstrate solvency and aptitude to have a baby. If you're a moron you get snipped. Far too many humans suffer being born to morons.

Oddly enough, I don't disagree with the above. Since we're hypothetically mandating parenthood and reproduction, I have a whole list of ideas regarding child rearing and education that I think would help to circumvent what I see as an overall societal lack of empathy which I think is a key factor to perhaps all of the ills that plague us. Let me use your ideas about aptitude to having a child as a springboard for my ideas. You might have ideas about funding that I have yet to consider. My emphasis is on the physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) growth of society as a whole.

Paraphrasing, you wrote: You need to demonstrate an aptitude to have a baby.


1. Mandatory child development and parenting classes (delivered in developmental stages that continue through the early childhood years) for adults starting before baby is born. Ideally, before going off birth control.

2. One parent must sign on to stay with baby as primary caregiver from birth to age 6. (And no, I don't know where the income is going to come from. Perhaps the money from taxing religious institutions?)

3. Primary caregiver must agree to mandatory parenting classes throughout the child's early years and beyond.

4. The creation of intergenerational educational systems. Everything I'm going to list from here going forward, hinges on the creation of intergenerational systems of education.

5. Children in series of mixed age groupings starting with part-day early childhood programs that include children age 3-6 years old. (Mixed age groupings: 3&4 year olds, 5&6 year olds--in the past these were referred to as continuum classes) Senior citizens and older students become part of the programs.

Mixed age groupings foster the development of empathy.

6. Academic schooling begins on or around age 7. Continued mixed age groupings through high school. Senior citizens become part of the system working in partnership with older students.

7. Beginning in middle school, students receive education regarding birth control, reproductive rights and related topics.

8. Beginning in high school, students must take the same mandatory child development and parenting classes as the prospective parents I listed above.

9. Senior high school students complete their child development classes held in intergenerational learning nurseries used as both lab schools and child care program (children as subjects) while parents are attending their ongoing parenting classes.

Basically, it's a cycle of education that's comprised of all generations interacting with, teaching and learning from each other.

[_EAllusion]

This thread took a weird turn into dystopian policy recommendations.

As for the OP, it's especially odd to argue its thesis right after the right-wing party took power on the back of an ethnonationalist purification movement.

[_Jersey Girl]

This thread took a weird turn into dystopian policy recommendations.

I blame frustration and fed-uppedness for that.

[_subgenius]

This thread took a weird turn into dystopian policy recommendations.

I blame frustration and fed-uppedness for that.

And these are both great reasons to oppress a society?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

This thread took a weird turn into dystopian policy recommendations.

Absolutely.

#13- Bums will be institutionalized and have to clean our streets to make up for leaving crap both literally and figuratively all over the place. The only acceptable alternative is a one-way ticket to Wisconsin so EA can give them government money, but only if they stay in Wisconsin.

- Doc

[_Xenophon]

This thread took a weird turn into dystopian policy recommendations.

What, you don't like state enforced sterilization? Honestly since Ceeboo just wanted to link and run with zero analysis of the topic I guess it doesn't really matter where the thread goes (still love ya Ceebs (can I steal this from Honor cause I really like it?)).