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Originally Posted by Stoic Thinker
Noble sentiments.
No offence, but could you be any vaguer or more naive?
I think most people wish to protect the interests of humanity, but who decides what is in humanity's best interests?
If everyone decided to act for what they thought were humanity's best interests, would that not be a certain way to create conflict?
The bottom line is that all nations and peoples are selfish and self-centred, and this will never change.
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You say no offence but then go on to insult me. How odd.
If you did not mean to cause offence then why say offensive things in the first place?
Who decides?
Whoever is making a decision that affects humanity. Only they can. If they make the wrong choice then there's not much we can do except try to rectify it.
I might ask the same question of you - if everyone decided to act in what they thought were their country's best interests, would that not be an even more certain way to create conflict?
Say, as the British people decided that it would be in Britain's best interests to invade and steal the natural resources of other nations?
The bottom line is that all nations are merely concepts with no solid foundation, and that peoples can change as shown by the relative tolerance for homosexuals by the Church today, and that as it is not a nation which makes a decision but the people in charge that the attitudes shown in international diplomacy can change.
You call me naive when you are not me. You did not partake of the experience of the many months in which I have formed my opinions on logical structures which are based on foundations I have discussed with others and believe to be correct.
I spent time constructing my beliefs. I am no more naive than anyone else who has actually thought about their positions.