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what alternative are people proposing?

• Barrin92 2mo ago
  develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom instead of promoting a commercial culture whose logical terminus are the Wall-E people.[1] Practical first step would be to return to Humboldt's model of education[2] and to not devalue to arts and humanities at every opportunity. [1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yw7WAq_GZY8/hqdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yw7WAq_GZY8/hqdefault.jpg [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...
  • ElProlactin 2mo ago
    > develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom But you don't have to wait for the entire world to change for you to treat the people around you this way.
    • flaburgan 2mo ago
      And thankfully millions of people are already doing it. But the good of small actions from normal people is in the balance with the evil of terrible actions from powerful people, the last example being the current president of the US.
• Seattle3503 2mo ago
  I think implicit in this argument is a proposal that society stops making excuses for anti-social people and behavior, and shames them and their behavior instead. Ironically, this is just a different incentive system! But IMO that doesn't make the argument less correct. It is a more full realization that "people respond to incentives", including shame.