#1 annoy people with a rant. It's only annoying because I'm stating the obvious but to obtain the obvious is obviously impossible under these circumstances. I find talking about said predicaments to be quite frustrating and annoying as well, so believe me when I say I feel your pain as you read what was a pain to write.

And #2!

Finding ideals that ALL humans can agree upon, and beginning our foundation from there.

I'm not talking opinions.

I'm talking about things like food, water, clothing.

Why not make them free? Money should be used by our species as a tool, nothing more, nothing less. To use this tool more effectively, my modest proposal is to make everything EXCEPT for our basic survival needs, our use for money. That's right, find a USE for our imagination. Er, money.

This would make actual progress and development as a species much more streamlined AND it would become far more open-ended. Our lives, our work, our play - would have an entirely different meaning, life would no longer be so constricted by our most inherent quality - the instinct to survive.

We currently have how many people currently LIVING on this planet? You cannot say it is impossible to feed every person on the planet, because it is currently happening. We shouldn't have to COMPETE to EXIST. Survival of the fittest is still applicable, competition is still appreciated, but we shouldn't make all of life a struggle to survive. It should be a struggle to survive amongst peers in a field of science, of soccer, of dreams. That is what should push us as a species, not a cutthroat competition at the watering hole.


Also - free energy has been a possibility for how long now?? People talk and think of economical solutions to basic problems like clean drinking water.. They try to think of how to fix the problems that affect the poor, on the cheap. Because you know, they won't be able to afford it otherwise. We use things like this as tools of manipulation.

That is us trying to find a realistic solution to the problem that is created by our desire to separate our own existence from others. It's not realistic if we don't look for solutions through the peephole of money, territory, government. Because the hierarchy dictates such realities, our mind must search for possibilities within these constructs, so as to follow what is in the heart. The deepest truths within our hearts & souls will be forever silenced by our mind if there is no paradigm shift in how we look at/to one another.

Unrealistic, yet perfectly reasonable - feed the world.

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It's only possible if first and only step is annihilate the human species.

 

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you stole my answer

 

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Normally I go with that but I was going to try and be generous and propose a hard cap on population (and encourage negative growth-yes feel free to interpret that one), at least until we have successfully managed to colonize/invade other planets.

That's stupid.

You obviously don't recognize how peaceful we truly are. If we weren't, the world would not be what it is.

And this is 'first steps TOWARDS' I'm not even talking about whether it could ever be achieved.

Much like we can take the first steps TOWARDS time travel.

Both of you had retarded answers.

That's easy. Humans will only unite if faced with an external threat. Right now, we are free to bicker and slaughter each other as we like, being apex predators of every environment on this planet.

However, if a malevolent sentient species other than our own would either evolve or arrive on this planet, and rise up to destroy us, we would finally unite as one to repel the threat.

If no other sentient life other than our own exists, we are doomed to an eternity(?) of infighting. It's as simple as that. The reptillian portions of our brain along with our aggression hormones, our connection to the animal kingdom, will continually drive us to violence. It is what we are.

 

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Encourage vasectomies. Invest in sperm banks.

If we were... the world would not be what it is.

I agree wholeheartedly, and very well put might I add.

I still believe that if it were at all possible to achieve peace within our infighting, without an outside threat, we would start with our basic necessities. We see it as impossible right now but who knows, perhaps implementing such an idea could create a new bond that we previously had no thought of or connection to. Maybe using the foresight to appease as many of our reptilian desires as possible would give us more control/stability in a very broad, perspective-based sense.

This is totally true. If you study street gangs and how they operate/interact, you will see the same pattern emerge on a smaller scale.