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This is to tell you about a petition that works alongside and supports all effective action to fight climate change, poverty, and all suffering and injustice, but calls for awareness that as long as only such small minorities of us are fighting these problems, and are not eliminating their underlying structural causes, we will possibly never be able to end such massive problems as poverty and climate change, and will not be able to end all human induced suffering and injustice, and maximize benefit for everyone. Climate change, poverty, and the global economic crisis are all symptoms of current social structures and systems (including the political and economic, but mainly the ideological), which intrinsically generate harm to people and the environment, by coercing people into applying their agency only within the confines of these systems, so that they at least unintentionally live in ways which at least instrumentally harm others and the environment, through their action or inaction. The massive number, complexity and variety of all the problems in the world, and the hegemonic, extensive and all-encompassing nature of the current social structures and systems, means that we can only eliminate all the problems if all people unite in universal action to ensure it is everyone's absolute priority to devote their thought, behaviour and agency to ending the suffering and injustice, maximizing the well-being of everyone, and reorganizing society so that this can and must happen.
The way social structures and systems are currently constructed prevents us from ending climate change, poverty, and all human induced suffering and injustice, and intrinsically generates harm to people and the environment, by preventing this necessary universal human action, and this is possibly mainly because of ideological structures that coerce people into believing the lies:
- that in order to satisfy their egoism, they have to conform with these systems, compete, consume at ridiculously and unnecessarily high levels, and therefore live in ways which harm others and the environment
- that there can be no alternative to the way society currently operates, and that we cannot change these structures and reconstruct society.
But if we get everyone to acknowledge:
- the evidence that the most effective way of satisfying our egoism is through benefiting others and living in harmony with the environment, so that egoism can be harnessed to motivate people to make the necessary changes to society, and therefore can be satisfied using only means which are not harmful
- that there can be no proof that we cannot make these changes, and all that can guarantee we cannot is if we are too pessimistic to try, so surely it's worth trying for
possibly the main factors preventing the necessary universal action are weakened, and there is less preventing all people from uniting in the goal to create structures that encourage and enable everyone:
- to make it their absolute priority to fight all human induced suffering and injustice, and maximize the well-being of everyone
- to fully actualise our rational and reflexive potentials to find means of achieving this
- to engage in constant criticism of every aspect of society, including themselves, to ensure that people are con applying their agency to finding ways to improve society,
- to ensure continued reproduction of this behaviour.
So inducing such ideological structural changes in consciousness, values, and orientation, is possibly what we need to do most and first if we are to create a society that doesn't cause climate change, poverty, and all other human induced problems.
Having eliminated these harmful ideological structures that prevent people from uniting in universal action to maximize benefit for all, we can then set about changing other political, economic and social structures. We must all fully actualize and apply our rational and reflexive potentials to finding the most effective means of reconstructing society in this way, to enable a smooth and peaceful transition from the current social order to a new one, so that society does not simply collapse. We can reach a consensus on how to create such a society if we are prepared to leave prejudices to such ideas behind and come together in an environment that enables completely free thought and communication; we must be able question and criticize rationally and reflexively all our own preordained assumptions as well as others', and all the strong views people have about such issues, so that we can discern together objective truths on which this consensus depends. This movement must be actualized collectively through universal thought and behaviour, can have no leaders or hierarchy, and must transcend or break down all divisions between us, so that we can all acknowledge we are all just people who must unite in this universal action; such an objective consensus does not need to conflict with or detract from cultural diversity or individual existential freedom and autonomy, but actively aims to restore and maximise these as long as they are only actualized in ways which aren't even instrumentally harmful to other people and the environment.
Even within the current 'democratic' political machinery we have a practical need for such ideological structural change in the way people think, and universal changes of consciousness, values and ethical orientation, if we are to be able to end climate change, poverty, and other massive problems, because:
- we need the majority or all people to demand from those in power, who are accountable to us, that the solutions to the problems, lots of which already exist, are actualized, which does not happen at the moment
- we need those in power to see that it is in their interest, as well as it being their obligation, to make these changes; there is so much evidence to suggest that it is far more fulfilling to use the power and resources to participate in the process to make the structural changes to society which are required to end human induced suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for all, than to continue to compete, exploit and consume in the current ways. Obviously this relies on all people supporting each other to make these changes together;
we can only achieve these changes through universal action throughout society, and can only reform the structures, end all the problems and maximise benefit for all, if all people unite in these goals, due to how:
- if only minorities of individuals attempt to make these changes, they will not get far enough
- if not everyone is contributing and cooperating, those who are will merely be exploited by those who still have the competitive orientation
- eliminating only one cause of suffering and injustice can cause or exacerbate other problems, due to how extensive the effects of the harmful social systems and structures are in global society
- and just to maintain a position in western society that gives you potential to make the necessary structural changes, people can hardly avoid conforming to some extent with the systems which cause the problems, until we make these structural changes; the only action one can take exclusively individually as opposed to collectively, to stop contributing to problems is to exist completely outside these systems (which even then contributes to the problems instrumentally due to how that action which could be applied to making the necessary structural changes collectively, to fight the problems, is not), whereby one loses the potential to change them collectively
- it is probably not be sustainable or feasible for every individual to simply immediately start existing outside these systems without massive structural change occurring previously, as possibly even greater harm would be done to people and the environment
so we must firstly get all people just to express their agreement with and approval of these ideas and this movement by signing this petition, so that in democratic process, the more people who sign it, the more we can demand that all structural and personal influences on human thought and behaviour, and all means of communication, like the media and education, contribute to facilitating this movement, so that we can all mobilise together to make these changes to society; in our so-called democratic process, if enough people, or all people, sign it, and so demand these changes, none of the harmful structures can stop us from making these changes; all these harmful structures are is ideas, but ideas that have control over the thoughts and behaviour of lots of people; all that gives them this power is that these people conform with them and do not criticize them; the more people who recognize this, and do criticize all these structures (particularly initially the ideological structures that provide the initial barrier to this required universal action), the weaker these structures become; we need to make a tangible record of people who do this, to illustrate and prove the support, strength and momentum this movement is gaining (which will in itself give it more strength), to others, and to those who oppose it, who will look for any excuse, however invalid or unjust, to dismiss it; one of the demands of the petition is that all people, all means of communication, and all structural influences on human thought and behaviour, especially the media initially, contribute to encouraging this change of consciousness, and to encouraging people to participate in this movement, so that we can coordinate with everyone else and mobilize to make these changes together. We must continue the amazing and effective action that so many people are instigating to fight the problems in the world, but possibly the only way we can eliminate all the problems, is if we also all sign this petition (which does not require much effort), and get as many others as possible to sign it, so that all people unite in universal action to end human induced suffering and injustice, and maximize the well-being of everyone.
This petition seems an obvious means of fulfilling these roles, but if you have any ideas about what that could work better, please feel free to get in touch about them, or just get on with them yourselves when you can (as long as they are peaceful), though it would still be good to hear what you're up to.
No-one should feel threatened by this movement, as its purpose is to benefit everyone as much as possible.
The petition should never be seen as an end in itself, but as a means of achieving this end of getting all people to unite to ensure it is everyone's absolute priority to eliminate all suffering and injustice, and maximize benefit for all.
To sign the petition and join the thousands who already have, email your name to petition@peopleunite.org.uk. Or Read on for more explanation. For any comments, enquiries, or criticisms, please email the address at the bottom of the page.
Although the person who has started this, but who is not the leader*, will be primarily devoting their life to this movement, just to make them seem slightly less unbalanced and mad, they also raise around 10,000 pounds a year for more established charities, join in lots of direct actions organized by other activists, and get hundreds of other poverty and climate change petitions signed every few months, though these actions are arguably too much within the current social order to change it, hence this other movement; the point of this movement is that it should accompany and encourage all effective means of fighting the problems in the world, and should not divert people from other actions to fight the problems.
Although appearing in the media is pretty unnerving, it is crucial for the success of the movement to get influences on peoples' thought and behaviour, like particularly the media initially, to spread awareness of it. So as well as being out on the streets getting people to sign the petition, this person will be doing other peaceful bits and pieces to try to get the media and other structures to do this. If you want to help out at all, feel free to get in touch.
*Another reason why this person should not be seen as a leader, and why there should be no hierarchy in the movement, as well as the reasons given above, is because it is the ideas the movement aims to actualise that are of significance in this context, as opposed to the individuals promoting them, though it should be added that there should be no danger of reification as these ideas in themselves encourage people or agents who actualize or carry them to constantly criticise them.
(p.u.felixhaslam@googlemail.com)
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Some more explanation...
You should sign this petition if you agree that a hell of a lot more needs to be done to fight the hideous amount of injustice and suffering in the world. It should be seen to support and work alongside all effective action to solve the world's problems like poverty and climate change, but calls for awareness that as long as only such a small minority of people are motivated into action to fight them, and as long as people only target such superficial and often relatively small causes of them, we will never be able to end all the human induced suffering and injustice, and we may never be able to end poverty and climate change. The petition is a call for all people to unite in the goal to fully actualize our rational and reflexive potentials to fulfill our obligation to maximize the well-being of everyone and eliminate suffering and injustice, to ensure it is everyone's absolute priority to achieve this, and to create and maintain a society that enables and encourages everyone to achieve this. We can only eliminate all the suffering and injustice that people unnecessarily inflict on each other, and the damage people unnecessarily inflict on the environment, if all people unite in this goal, and if all of us devote our minds to finding means to reform and reorganize social systems and structures to ensure it is the ethical orientation of society to constantly strive to be maximizing benefit for everyone, and so to constantly be improving society in these ways. It could possibly help us to achieve this if we all recognize the evidence to that the most effective way of satisfying our egoism is through benefiting others and living in harmony with the environment, as opposed to continuing to compete and conform with ways of living which are instrumentally harmful to others and the environment; egoism can therefore be an extremely useful force that can be fully harnessed to maximise morality and motivate people to make these necessary changes. People are coerced into applying their thought, behaviour and agency only within the current social, political and economic system that intrinsically generates injustice, suffering, and harm to the environment. Peoples' agency, thought and behaviour is essentially extracted to maintain this system, which is the cause of the current global economic crisis, poverty and climate change. We all need to be fully applying our thought, behaviour and agency to changing this system, and the ideology which accomanies it, that coerces people into conforming with it, and therefore into fuelling environmental and humanitarian disasters.
To sign the petition, email your name to petition@peopleunite.org.uk. Or Read on for more explanation. For any enquiries, problems, or anything else, please email the address at the bottom of the page.
The massive number, variety and complexity of problems and their causes, in all areas of society, means that it is practically impossible for all suffering and injustice resulting from human action or lack of it, to be eliminated by
- such small governmental bodies while populations do not fully participate in this project, and while it is the ethical orientation of the majority of the population to live in a way which, intentionally or unintentionally, contributes to the problems, due to other structural influences
- the implementation of policies by governments to target each problem individually in such a situation (without there also being policies to ensure everyone participates), because targeting individual problems and their causes with the type of bureaucratic procedure often currently used, without targeting all other problems, can exacerbate or cause other problems, either directly or instrumentally. The problems cannot be solved when such small amounts of the resources and human agency in the world are used or applied to solving the problems, as is the case now. The amounts currently made available aren't anywhere near sufficient to solve all the problems, and so when limited amounts are applied to fighting certain problems as opposed to others, the other problems remain unsolved, or worsened due to lack of action. If all the individual causes of suffering and injustice are to be eliminated, all resources and human agency need to be devoted primarily to fighting the problems before anything else, and people trying to solve certain problems cannot be competing for these limited amounts, with people trying to solve other problems.
The massive number, variety and complexity of problems and their causes, in all areas of society, means that we can only eliminate the human induced suffering and injustice in the world if every individual is fully applying their mind or agency to solving all the problems around them, which they have the ability to affect, and if all resources are used to maximize the well-being of everyone. The underlying cause that needs to be eliminated, or what can be described as immorality, is the lack of this universal action to fight all structures that cause this lack of action in itself, and to fight the behaviour and thought which conforms to these structures, or is not directly oppositional to them. Until we make this goal the ethical orientation of society, and make it everyone's absolute priority to 'make immorality history', people will always harm each other and all on the planet unnecessarily. This petition aims to motivate the necessary movement to enable it to be everyone's full intention to maximise benefit for all and benefit others at least as much as the self, which requires the full actualization of our rational and reflexive potentials to find the means to achieve these goals.
The structures that stand in the way of this, whether they are consequences of intentional or unintentional human action, are not fixed, and however powerless we may feel as individuals, if we unite in this universal action we can make the necessary changes. The structures that stand most in the way of us achieving this are those which make people believe the lies that it is not in our interest to do so, and that we could never make these changes anyway. The more people who become open to these ideas, the weaker these structures become, and together we can tip the balance and eliminate any structures which stand in our way. With the current mechanisms of power and political machinery in this supposedly democratic society, we just need to demonstrate to governments and other power-centres, who in the end are accountable to us, and should be seen as us, that there are enough people behind this movement, which in democracy seems the way to peacefully bring such change. Communicating these ideas through personal interaction may not be sufficient, so we must gather enough support to demand that all structures, means of communication, and influences on human behaviour and thought, like NGOs, governments, the media, ideologies, and education systems, are changed so that they contribute to facilitating this movement and change of consciousness. A petition seems an obvious place to start, but if you have any ideas that could help, please email them to the address below. In order to demand that influential structures like the media contribute to the movement, we may need to show that there are enough people supporting it, by getting the petitions signed. Then when structures like the media are spreading the words, it will generate more support and encourage more people to sign the petition, which will then enable us to demand more awareness to be raised, and more support to be given by more such influential structures, and so on, until it is the ethical orientation of society to be maximising benefit for everyone. Please participate in this dialectic by signing the petition, or in other ways, and join the thousands who already have, so that all people can particpate in the broader dialectic in which people, in order to maximise the well-being of everyone, devote their agency to creating structures that encourage all people to unite in the goal to maximise the well-being of everyone, and to reproduce such structures and behaviour. This is happening, and if there's even the smallest possibility that we can succeed, then surely it's worth a shot.
The priority of this movement initially is to motivate people into action to fight climate change, as we have so little time left to stop it, and prevent even more obscene amounts of suffering from hitting the Third World, which will be hit first and hardest, and then the rest of the world. do all can to reduce own carbon footprint, and sign NGO and charity petitions demanding the necessary action from world leaders...
It is possibly sad that we might have to appeal to egoism as opposed to compassion in order to motivate some people into making moral changes, but continuing to compete and conform with ways of living which are harmful to others and the environment at least instrumentally are also harmful to the self in that they do not maximize benefit for it. People who are coerced into believing that they need to compete with others for material profit, and harm people and the environment, in order to satisfy their egoism, must realize that it is either just as much in their interest to participate in these changes as it is in their interest to continue striving for profit at others' expense, or that making these changes will benefit them more. Although a certain amount of material resources are needed for basic biological needs to be met, there is so much evidence that true fulfillment requires much more than material resources, which can only be provided if people are truly maximizing benefit for each other. Obviously many people in the world need to lower their levels of consumption significantly if peoples' existence is to be at all sustainable, but if people only consume just what they need to meet their basic biological needs, there are potentially enough resources for everyone; we need to find ways of enabling everyone to maximise benefit for themselves and everyone else, through action to benefit others, creativity, imagination, art, music, and any ways which are sustainable. If it is everyone's absolute priority to maximise the well-being of every other individual, and everyone is acting in ways which achieve this, then each individual will be maximising benefit for themselves, in that the most effective way of satisfying our egoism is through benefiting others. At times of overpopulation, people will need to agree to such measures as each couple only parenting one child, and each person only being able to have a child with one other person, for however many generations is necessary. We need to be completely open about, and need to be in open discussion about issues such as overpopulation, and what we can peacefully do to solve such problems. All people should not only be thinking about such issues, but should be devoting our minds primarily to such issues and to finding means of solving them and maximising benefit for all; these things should be the priority of all our thought and behaviour, and at the forefront of everyone's minds. All people need to be communicating openly about such issues and finding answers collectively; we can reach consensuses on such problematic subjects if people overcome and put aside competitive egoism. We can reach a consensus that it it is our objective obligation to unite in the goals to maximise the well-being of everyone; obviously different situations and locations will require different means of achieving this (which is where many superficial differences in normative moral systems arise), but as long as it is the absolute priority of everyone to devote their minds to finding these means, and unite in the goals to actualise these means, we can end intentional human induced suffering and injustice, and maximise the well-being of everyone.
To sign the petition, email your name to petition@peopleunite.org.uk. For any enquiries, problems, or anything else, please email the address at the bottom of the page.
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You cannot deny that a hell of a lot more needs to be done about how hideously immoral and unjust human society is; all suffering people inflict on each other, on personal and social levels, through their action or lack of action, is completely unnecessary and preventable. We cannot continue with only a minority of us attempting to eliminate this suffering, and only targeting such relatively small causes and areas of it, as happens now, as it will never have enough effect. We all have to acknowledge there is nothing more important for humans to achieve than uniting in the common goal to fully actualise our rational and moral potentials to overcome and eliminate all immoral or harmful traits from our characters, and so to end all the problems in the world, as it is the only way we can minimise suffering to a level where only factors beyond human control can cause suffering. There is no excuse for this not to be right at the front of everyone's consciousness, and the primary aim of everyone's lives. This is not saying anything profound, but it is outrageous that the type of thing argued here is not obvious to everyone.
People possibly are unnecessarily deterred from moral behaviour by the lie that it has to consist in altruism. For the purposes of this movement, morality can be loosely described as full intention, behaviour and thought to maximise the well-being of all individuals, and end all the causes of injustice and suffering. Immorality can loosely be described as the lack of intention, behavior and thought aimed at achieving these things. The means used to maximise benefit for all will obviously need to be different in different situations and locations. Egoism can induce disgustingly immoral and harmful behaviour, but only needs to result in immorality when people are deceived or coerced into believing that they need to live in a way that harms others at least instrumentally, in order to fully benefit themselves and satisfy their egoism; morality should maximise benefit for all, including the self, and is not incompatible with egoism. We all have the innate benevolence in our characters which causes a sense of well-being to be generated internally within us when we ourselves help others; there is a vast amount of evidence to show that people derive most benefit or happiness from benefiting others in this way, as well as in ways of receiving benefit externally from others in return for benefiting them, etc. We need to develop this phenomenon to the point where we are able to fully satisfy our egoism with moral behaviour, so there would be no need to seek any other sources of benefit for the self which are harmful to others and the environment in any way; egoism can therefore provide the most powerful force that we can harness to fuel moral living and behaviour. If we could achieve this complete correlation between egoism and morality, there would be no reason at all for people to be immoral or harmful.
The state at which an individual's moral potential is fully actualised can be indicative of their complete well-being; when an individual is in a state of maximum well-being, fulfillment, or happiness, they will be most able to act to maximise the well-being of others. But only a certain amount of material resources are required for an individual to reach a state of maximum fulfillment, and to be in a position to maximise the well-being of everyone else most effectively; any behaviour which uses more time, resources or action to benefit the self than are necessary (for their moral potential to be fully actualised) is immoral, or can be seen as harmful to others, when there are others in need of it for their full moral actualisation, as no behaviour harms or benefits only the self with no instrumental affect on others, and vice versa. It is hardly possible to maintain a position in society where one can participate in the fight to reform the political, economic and ideological structures that cause the injustice and suffering, without also having an at least instrumentally harmful effect on others and the environment. We all have the potential to change this, and it is our greatest duty to do so and totally direct our lives towards morality, or to maximising the well-being of everyone, and ending the human induced suffering and injustice; moral standards have to be set this high if we are to have enough affect. The possession of excess resources, and use of them on the self, does not necessarily increase benefit to the self, but does harm many, and any of us who do this can be blamed for the suffering and death of so many resulting from their lack of these resources. However these excess resources have to be given willingly, as a result of those who possess them realising that their possession of excess resources does not genuinely increase benefit to them, and that they will be more benefited by acting morally and donating willingly. So this does not require or condone the confiscation or destruction of resources, art, architecture, or anything of beauty that generates just and genuine benefit, as this does not help to eliminate immorality, which will therefore continue to induce suffering; this movement only condones what will genuinely maximise benefit for all; lack of material resources due to others' immorality is obviously not the only way in which immorality causes suffering, though many with sufficient or excess resources, who do not feel fully benefited, will stupidly assume they need more resources, when their lack of full benefit arises from other problems in human society created by immoral expressions of egoism. We obviously need some redistribution of resources, but this should happen as a result of people with excess resources donating them willingly to those who need them, on the grounds that it is more fulfilling to use resources to participate in the process of ensuring others' well-being, than it is to continue to use resources on unnecessary consumption, competition and exploitation. The lack of resources obviously causes harm for those in need of them, but also can cause harm for whole world, like in the situations in which people need to destroy rainforest to survive due to their lack of resources from other sources; obviously in such situations, those who have excess resources must willingly give them the resources they need to enable them to create the infrastructure they need to sustain themselves long term without contributing to the deforestation which contributes to climate change; for such action to occur however, we obviously need significant changes in social structures, including the political, economic, but predominantly the ideological structures. And this can only be achieved if everyone devotes their thought, behaviour and agency to find means to make these changes and maximise the well-being of everyone. If all people to unite to eliminate immorality, all inequalities will disappear like all other intentional human induced suffering; it is in everyone's benefit to do this.
Moral egoism requires that our primary intention is to maximise benefit for all (with the accompanying benefit to the self being seen as only a secondary side affect), and so also requires the full actualisation of our rational and reflexive potentials to discern what behaviour will fulfil this. Miscalculations of what the most moral course of action is will inevitably occur due to the limitations of human rationality, but this is not immoral if an individual did exercise their full rational and reflexive potential and their intention was genuinely to maximise benefit. Harming others due to a lack of rational and reflexive thought constitutes intentional immorality; the choice not to use our full rational and reflexive potentials in this case reflects a choice to harm, as inaction is just as much of an expression of human agency as action is. Benefiting others when the primary intention is for self-gain can be immoral in itself, but also in its consequences, as the individual's full rational potential will not be being applied primarily to the ends of discerning the most beneficial actions, but to the ends of how to acquire reward for themselves, so it is likely benefit will not be maximised for all and people will therefore be harmed at least instrumentally. As long as human society operates on principles of animalistic competition as it does now, only in more elaborate and disguised forms than those that drive other species, and as long as people are coerced into believing that they need to harm others or aim for superiority over them in order to fully benefit themselves, people will always harm each other and the environment unnecessarily. We cannot allow the current social situation to continue, in which not only individuals, but people of different sex, nationality, age, ethnicity, race, religion, or those with any other superficial and negatively socially constructed differences, are in competition with each other or are unjustly presented as superior to others; everyone has to acknowledge we are all just people, are all equal, and can morally overcome such shallow differences so that we can unite instead of competing. This egoistically immoral competition means that one individual's or group's benefit will only come at others' expense, and directly or instrumentally causes harm for others, by setting people against each other like this. Characteristics admired in today's society today are usually those which will enable someone to compete well and defeat others, so are often harmful; and people held to be worthwhile by society are usually those who can do well in the competition, and so are also often at least instrumentally immoral. Virtues or moral characteristics enable people to follow the course of action which most effectively maximises benefit for all, in particular situations; so they can almost only really exist in a society where we are united, as opposed to in competition, in the common goal to benefit all, or in people who are trying to bring about this state. This action to end human induced suffering and injustice, and maximise the well-being of everyone, has to be acknowledged as the most important goal humans can aspire to and replace the unjust values that dominate so many peoples' lives. All powerful drives in us for meaning, purpose, admiration, etc, can be harnessed to encourage this behaviour, as there can be nothing worth more admiration, more meaningful or purposeful. With everyone united, morality can aim to and should maximise benefit for all individuals without being at anyone's expense.
We need to be liberated from all negative preordained influences to enable the existential freedom necessary to this movement, so that people can define themselves in ways that enable them to unite in these goals. Benefit to the self and ou rmoral potential are greatly increased if we are free to define our own identities and be true to ourselves, and as this moral behaviour can fully satisfy and correlate with egoism, there is not much incentive for us not to ensure that we define our characters in ways that will enable us to act in these way. Again this moral behaviour needs to totally replace the unjust and oppressive values that effectively dominate the modern world, which make conformance to the immoral norm of behaviour and appearance necessary for someone to be considered a worthwhile person and be accepted by society, which in turn obstructs the true creativity and individuality we need. To be free to calculate and pursue exactly what will benefit us and others most, and respect others' freedom to do the same, we need complete existential freedom to rationally, reflexively and morally question everything with open-mindedness (including all that is written here); without it our friendships or relationships, and all means through which we seek benefit, cannot be truly complete and fulfilling, and time and resources will therefore be put to immoral use, not creating the just amount of benefit for the self or others. We need to be open about, and ensure that we all provide for each other everything people need in order for their moral potential to be fully actualised, and fulfill all these necessary needs, like medical, spiritual, physical, spiritual and creative needs, Everyone's desire to be accepted and tolerated has intrinsically to be satisfied with everyone's uniting, and divisions created by groups' hatred of and alienation from the immoral norm, and all unjust pretensions and inhibitions, should naturally also disappear.
Morality specifically should maximise benefit for all moral entities, and result in the greatest amount of further moral behaviour; morality should be self-generating, as benefiting or treating morally a moral entity (or an entity with moral potential), should increase their ability to maximise their moral potential and eliminate any causes of immorality in them; we have to fight the immorality not the immoral, who should not be necessarily punished, but benefited, i.e. treated in the way that enables them to actualise fully actualise their moral potential. Although benefiting moral entities therefore intrinsically generates more benefit and morality than benefiting non-moral entities, which gives moral entities a priority over non-moral entities when calculating the most moral course of action, it does not justify the human destruction of the planet, as morality obviously requires that the Earth is protected to enable moral and non-moral entities to be fully benefited in the present and the future.
Probably none of this is worded any of this very well, and a lot has been left out, including philosophical justifications for these arguments, but it is only really the view that we all should aim to benefit everyone as much as possible, that this is aiming to promote, which should not need justifying, and is surely what any benevolent divinity would will. Many issues have only been hinted at or omitted, because probably no one would want to read through anything any longer than this; thank you if you've read even this much, and if you are interested, more can be given. We are free enough for everyone to unite in this common goal to eliminate intentional human induced suffering and maximise our moral potentials; though it is for everyone's benefit, it should be done primarily not because it is egoistically beneficial, but because it is moral. It is up to everyone to contribute to find the specific ways to bring it about, however long it takes, and it can happen perfectly peacefully. As there is even the smallest possibility we could do it, we have to fight for it like nothing else.
p.u.felixhaslam@googlemail.com
this website finally put on the internet on 3 December 2006, though have been planning this movement for years
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