What would improve our society?

[Mercury]

List things you think would help improve our society? (Wherever you live) What things would you like see changed?

A simply one for me, I think society would be better off if we worried less about controlling others and remained more concerned with bettering ourselves ... and I don't necessarily mean written law, but more of social interaction.

 

[HK]

The collapse of the monetary system.


The complete separation of church and state.


A little more empathy.

 

[fuel1316]

if we quit raising a bunch of snot nosed wussy bitch kids.

i burned my ass sliding down that metal slide in the summer and you know what? I LIKED IT

 

[Mercury]

The collapse of the monetary system.


The complete separation of church and state.


A little more empathy.

Now that would be nice!

 

[Joe the meek]

People actually taking a little time out of their lives to help others.

I guess one could argue it's just easier to donate $100 to some cause.

 

[Mercury]

People actually taking a little time out of their lives to help others.

I guess one could argue it's just easier to donate $100 to some cause.

I agree with this! Even if it means doing little things like, putting a shopping cart into the cart return rather than leaving it in a parking spot ... or ... placing a product back in its proper spot rather than leaving it for a store employee to put it back. (These are really small, simply yet very helpful things that we can do for one-another.)

Volunteer work is definitely a plus in improving society as a whole.

These are good!

What else?

 

[Joe the meek]

If I were single again, I'd highly suggest legalizing prostitution.

Guys would be more laid back.

Doubt that would ever happen.

 

[Mercury]

If I were single again, I'd highly suggest legalizing prostitution.

Guys would be more laid back.

Doubt that would ever happen.

LOL! Actually, I bet you are right.

 

[Johnfromokc]

Conservatives unilaterally become cured of their self-inflicted cranial rectumitus.

Complete, total and permanent extraction of religion from government.

An education system that is designed to create a thinking, flourishing society in which as many people as possible have wonderful lives filled with freedom, happiness and fulfilment - as opposed to our current system which is designed to pump out obedient worker-bees and indebted consumers.

 

[Mercury]

An education system that is designed to create a thinking, flourishing society in which as many people as possible have wonderful lives filled with freedom, happiness and fulfilment - as opposed to our current system which is designed to pump out obedient worker-bees and indebted consumers.

This is definitely a good call. Our education system as it stands now is rather lacking in a bigger picture sense.

 

[Dana]

Population control... The socially inept should not be allowed to breed.

 

[Kakapo Dundee]

If I were single again, I'd highly suggest legalizing prostitution.

Guys would be more laid back.

Doubt that would ever happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prostitution_laws_of_the_world.PNG

 

[All Else Failed]

A complete and utter rejection of liberalism and the creation of an enlightened aristocracy


establish hierarchy that allows people to move up through merit, intelligence and skill


Zero immigration policy unless you're a genius


reduction of materialism/consumerism


Tear down disgusting modern cities and make them beautiful once more


Traditionalism integrated into the greater whole of society


Consumption tax


Drastically deduce foreign aid

 

[Mercury]

Population control... The socially inept should not be allowed to breed.

LOL, jokingly that is funny.

 

[Mercury]

A complete and utter rejection of liberalism and the creation of an enlightened aristocracy


establish hierarchy that allows people to move up through merit, intelligence and skill


Zero immigration policy unless you're a genius


reduction of materialism/consumerism


Tear down disgusting modern cities and make them beautiful once more


Traditionalism integrated into the greater whole of society


Consumption tax


Drastically deduce foreign aid

establish hierarchy that allows people to move up through merit, intelligence and skill

This would be AWESOME! Unfortunately with the attempts at making things "fair" this fundamental principle has been lost.

Zero immigration policy unless you're a genius

As in having no policy with open boarders or closing boarders completely?

reduction of materialism/consumerism

I completely agree!

Traditionalism integrated into the greater whole of society

This has its pros and cons. There are definitely social values that are observed through traditions that are very positive (like manners and the like). There are also traditional ideologies that could hold a society back from progressing past a closed minded state such as segregation.

Drastically deduce foreign aid

That is for sure. Watching a struggling economy and seeing money spent overseas is pretty frustrating!

 

[All Else Failed]

As in having no policy with open boarders or closing boarders completely?

No more immigrants allowed.

 

[Mercury]

No more immigrants allowed.

Ah. May I prod you into explaining as to why you think that should be the case?

 

[Dana]

Ah. May I prod you into explaining as to why you think that should be the case?

I'm not AEF but I can answer this with a few points

1. Most refuse to learn fucking English
2. They take our jobs no matter how shit they are because they'll work for less...
3. They don't know the difference between an XL and a size small... :24:

 

[Minderella]

2. They take our jobs no matter how shit they are because they'll work for less...

Not that your other two points weren't ridiculous....but who's fault is this one? It's certainly not theirs. They just aren't too proud to work the crappy jobs for crappy money. I think that's more "our" problem. IJS.

 

[Kakapo Dundee]

Hard really to say, our societies are so vastly different.

What we have here isn't perfect, but broadly speaking it seems to work.

If we could import more thought-provoking television instead of relying on third rate 'reality' shows, it couldn't hurt.