dimreepr

Society is a pyramid, like understanding, the height it achieves depends on the base. If everyone's just a little bit more sensitive to other's, there's less dogshit on the streets. I don't think it's gone over anyone's head, there's a difference between offence and righteous indignation.

Indeed, we should start from there...

I don't know, all I know is 'I have' to my best friend and he wasn't offended... 😉

Really, didn't they turn that word from slave to friend?

You beat me to it +1 All I would add is, I don't really know what it is to be offended by a word, I'm a white guy in England. Everyday (almost) there's a post on FB, a picture of dog shit with a lament of the dangers of stepping in it. What's the point of the post? Every dog owner already knows that, if he/she is seen to not pick it up, he/she will be punished by the army of the righteously indignat. So your not gonna persuade them to do the right thing, you've just confirmed that they haven't been seen... They don't even realise the irony of the post, if you don't pick it up you're part of the problem...

I'll do so tomorrow, but I'll leave you with this; if you have to acquire a taste, it means you didn't like the taste to start with, but you learned to accept it...

That sound's dogmatic. Why do you need money so much?

A fantasy is just that, a fantastic story that stir's the loins... Tell me about it, every time I suggest the past/religion has valuable lessons to teach. The difference is intent; JP doesn't intend to teach a better way to other's, he just wants a better way for him... Intelligence doesn't come with a moral compass, that has to be acquired. 😉

I'm English/human, so I'll revert to type: On approach, can I live there and do the locals have gun's? On establishing orbit, can I land safely? On landing, I immediately plant a flag and claim ownership... On first encounter with a local life-form, I inform them of my ownership of their planet...

It's important to be discrete...

But it is the result of a single action, the resolve to do what she could. If all you can do is to write a note to a pen pal, let's hope it's her.

Surely Greta Thunberg is evidence that a simple letter can lead to pressure on the system? We're all part of the system, who knows who's actions will will tip the scales.

Write the letter, do what you can; ie. don't buy what you don't need to live, don't travel to where you don't need to be (unless you cycle or sail), for instance, get a job you can walk to or only buy what you can eat or wear.

That's the hand we've been dealt, we could try sending the useless people away.

As Brexit demonstrates with frightening clarity. It's not about population, it's about what we do, now...

No, I've learned to live with them, and think past them; I evolved that ability. 😉

As a human, I'm free to be a human...

It's one of your ancestors. Not really, there's nothing wrong with learning from the past, just don't make it an excuse to not think about it...

It's naive to think that you haven't evolved past an amoeba, every generation evolve and everyday we too evolve emotionally, but hey boys will be boys.

I'll accept poor choice of word's but not BS, I should have said "There's not two kinds of people, there's just people, understanding in a billion different way's that's how the founding father's unwittingly set the conditions for a two party system and included protection to prevent a bias in the system; it worked quite well for 200+ year's, but now it's become dogma and it encourages people to not think about the meaning of the document." I'm just trying to explain how an infinitely compex system tends to devolve into a simplistic one, because people are people.

I wasn't being literal...

Only when I have to eat...

All I know is, feeding them can be funny...

As I've said before, we are all different in a billion different ways, but we are all human; like a bat is a bat. There's not two kinds of people, there's just people, understanding in a billion different way's that's why the founding father's chose a two party system and included protection to prevent a bias in the system; it worked quite well for 200+ year's, but now it's become dogma and it encourages people to not think about the meaning of the document. Then one day the pressure on the people, force's a change of direction (Like a pendulum)... 😉

I can't comment on JP because I have no idea what he's said/writen, but I do trust @Phi for Alland @CharonY, assessment of him. It's a big step from punishment to attacking bad idea's, besides he's not being ignored he's being debated.