That's interesting, where we grew up, it was a variety of religions with Muslims, Hindus and some other faiths. But they did have the same values. They all respected and cared for their neighbours.
If we cooked something special, we would always share it with our neighbors.
Maybe we should study why one society lives together while others feel the need to keep high fences and a hand gun
I think that the key is to understand that "ways of life" cannot compete for control over the same physical space. Think of "way of life" as the protocol by which individuals and groups interact with one another. As long as everyone agrees to conform to the same protocol, peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence is possible.
For that to work, the distribution of property and of economic and political power must be just. If some groups are oppressed and other groups are privileged, then there will be trouble.
Agreed.
Have you read Homo Deus yet? I am reading it now it goes through these issues and looks at it from a historical and scientific perspective
My reading is limited to law cases these days. Usually an encounter with an intelligent person makes me feel like Rip van Winkle. In an almost literal sense, I live on a battlefield and I do and think in the ways that you would expect of someone dodging bullets. I am not here on steemit to pass the time. I am here to tell my story, a shocking story that I hope will become a call for help that people will respond to.
I am pleased your on here @ideafarm
I look forward to hearing your story.
I might be doing a book review of Homo Deus, so you can get a condensed version of the key principles. Do look out for it in the next few weeks :)
I prefer to acquire ideas through conversation. Perhaps we will become acquainted and I will become familiar informally with the ideas that excite you.
Me too, but I also find gathering other sources of information makes those conversations more constructive and less speculative.
I am following you already, so I will drop in a few comments where I might be able to add something of value.
The facts that I will bring to this party come from me using myself as "sting bait" for eight years to accumulate overwhelming evidence that local government here is renegade and operates brazenly in defiance of the Constitution. The judges in this county wield their power arbitrarily (relative to law) in order to maintain a Democratic political machine here that will put to shame what Chicago ever had.
And I am personally going to blow the lid off of the whole can filled with maggots. If I survive.