Voluntary Society - Action - Reducing Insecurity
Insecurity seems to be the common denominator of
human problem behavior.
Educating authoritarian
parents on the harm they cause by overprotecting their children, and
encouraging parents to expose their children to a wide variety of
people
will reduce the bigotry contribution to hatred.
The 90/10 Principle of
Stephen Covey will reduce relationship
related hatred.
Envy is used to sell products. Insecure people buy lots of unnecessary
stuff to be envied by other insecure people who buy to belong when they can or resent those who can when they can't. Comedy
skits and ads demonstrating the stupidity of the behavior, and
encouraging self-love and appreciation for the uniqueness of self are
the only free-market means of reducing the envy contribution to hatred
I can imagine. Suggestions welcome.
"Greedy" and "selfish" and their derivatives are often derogatorily
used, but when asked to define the terms, the users freeze like deer
caught in headlights. When pressed for the criteria for a
regulation of greed or selfishness, they often resort to income level
or net wealth. When asked for the threshold, they always set
it above theirs. The same people often bemoan the "poor" or
"homeless," but when asked how many they want me to move into the empty
bedrooms of their house, the deer eyes appear. Hypocrisy and
insincerity reign supreme among the self-righteous.
These are also the people who advocate yet another government solution
while ignoring all the past failures. Their ability or
willingness to follow cause-and-effect to the source of the problem
stops where their world view begins. Their view results from
the belief that people are basically bad, and hence must be controlled,
so government is always the solution even when it is clearly the
problem. They attend flee markets (the last relatively free markets),
ignore all the voluntary transactions that occur among the peace and
tranquility of the market, and sign petitions advocating more
regulations.
What does it take to help them see that people are basically good, and
that people resort to bad behavior when enabled by government or confronted with the market
distortions caused by government? Perhaps their emote control can be altered. The use of distinction by The Forum
to help people establish a rational reality unconfused by irrevalant
emotion may be used to temper emote control. A quick course devoted to
emote control mitigation could be a requirement for voting,
international negotiations or public office -- all unnecessary if there
is no government, however corporate management or any complex
decision-making position may benefit from such a course.
Every reduction in insecurity will reduce hatred, which will reduce the
vicious insecurity cycle and the abuse that often triggers the
expression of Evil Genes
as described in a book
by Barbara Oakley, page 57: 81% of psychopaths have genes predisposing
them to the affliction,
while 19% do not have the genes. Only 30% of those with milder
anti-social traits have genes predisposing them to the affliction.
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