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A Civic People collaborate (volunteer) to determine civic morality using physics-based ethics for both personal posterity (children, grandchildren and beyond) and themselves. Most adults candidly cultivate both civic morality and private pursuits such as spirituality, achieving an over-arching culture of no-harm personal/private liberty with civic well-being—PLwCWB. No-harm factional associations, cultures and religions flourish. With practice, by example, more of We the People of the United States understand, and effective civic policy empowers long, private living.

Practice for March 9, 2016 If you are tired of civic meetings that remind you of Crossfire TV events, join our meetings. We state a concern, suggest a remedy, then listen to responses which together or in replacement create the possibility to improve future living in Baton Rouge. Please mark your calendar for a special meeting, the second collaboration for physics-based ethics respecting a major civic issue: family fidelity. Tuesday, April 19, 7:00 PM, Jones Creek Branch Library, . See more detail at theadvocate.com/calendar#/details/Civic-discussion-How-Civic-Morality-Informs-Family/2193425/2016-04-19T19. The table of content for the thirty-minute presentation follows: Presentation content Learned in past two years’ collaboration--by 40 people in 7 meetings Candid dialogue is necessary and wanted; hesitance invites civic loss The status: Collaboration for a better future seems underway “Civic” expresses moral, human connections for now and for future progress “Nature,” prominent in America’s founding thought, emerged from physics. Four point theory of a civic people: personal privacy; civic collaboration; physics-based ethics for civic morality; and a personally updated preamble Physics-based ethics and authenticity in human progress From dependent person; three-decade transition to authentic, full life A prepared couple invites a possible person into mutual fidelity: family & heritage Mutual personal-appreciation and bonding: a fantastic human journey Possible consequences of sexual intimacy—some good, some bad Physics limits errors of biology: natural abortion A civic people subjugate neither mom nor fetus Civic morality and human fidelity Participants collaborate for a future that is inviting to children Should civic opinion coerce family governance? Will volunteers in Baton Rouge establish A Civic People in Baton Rouge? If physics-based ethics is adopted, how are volunteers free to innovate—to push the envelope of civic morality? Imaginative persons will then have the best possible basis—the bedrock--for responsibly exploring the unknown: physics. Today, there is nothing but opinion-based ethics under theism and the new-age democracy—whatever a faction of the people wants and can get. A special meeting, the first collaboration for physics-based ethics, respecting abortion. Sunday, February 21, was typical, with low attendance but great discussion. A couple observations about each a) collaboration and b) human family--the real topic of abortion: Mona Sevilla had created an opportunity when she suggested a special meeting to collaborate on one case of physics-based ethics, and I suggested abortion as the topic. A chemical engineer giving a talk on human reproduction is a stretch of “authority.” I thrashed around for a gynecologist to help, but could not imagine how to persuade the dedication of time and energy. I got help from Dr. Marion Freistadt, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Delgado Community College speaking on “Introduction to Evolution and One Example of Contemporary Relevance,” at NOSHA’s Darwin Day. Key phrases: polymerase fidelity; species mutation rate, high enough for adaptability yet low enough to maintain genome fidelity; fitting for survival rather than survival of the fittest; an ovum contains mitochondria, food and genes; the sperm delivers as many genes and is a gamete; natural abortion corrects physics’ errors. One person suggested I ask a physiologist, but I do not recall one. However, the experience taught me that such civic-neutral leadership is exactly what can make A Civic People of the United States happen. By taking on topics that are challenging and collaborating on the results, we can mutually become the informed citizens the 1787 signers of the preamble imagined. It’s like the uninformed collaborating with the uniformed for un-biased enlightenment. Therefore, I encourage each or you to pick a topic, say “gullibility,” but a topic of your interest and study the question: How does physics inform [gullibility] and how does a civic people best benefit from understanding the physics of [guile]. “Physics” is mass, energy and space-time from which everything emerges. Space-time is the three volume dimensions—x, y, and z as they vary in time. “Everything’ includes lies, facts, religion, and ethics. I had not realized it before, but the moral emphasis on conception is threatened by the blastocyst’s failure to implant (by about the eight day after conception). Also, half the time, gestation fails due to errors by physics or its prodigy, biology. During the discussion, Mona said: “Thank you. However, you did not disclose how physics informs so-called “arbitrary abortions.” We did the additional research to answer the question but cannot end controversy when “arbitrary” is a matter of opinion. Since then, it has come to our attention that in the United States there is a ratio about 1 adoption per 6 abortions, whereas at a Planned Parenthood office, the ratio is 1:145. People who try to match adoptive parents with unwanted babies should be collaborating with Planned Parenthood. Those babies should be neither neglected nor arbitrarily blocked from opportunity for life. In my continuing (antagonized) contributions on a blog for conservative, constitutional law professors, one anonymous poster addressed my posts sensibly at www.libertylawsite.org/2016/03/09/american-exceptionalism-is-ending-where/#comments . I responded to his concerns with integrity respecting the local activity. I regret that I could not claim more interest in a civic people, but feel that my own limitations are the cause. I am ready to spread this message to the world, but need help. If you are at all interested, please lend your talents. Each month I add a few people to the distribution of these messages, and the readership stays at about 50%. So, if you know of anyone who might be interested, please connect us. Thursday, I will attend a workshop on how to use Facebook. Anyone interested please consider attending with me to help me understand. I constantly seek other groups or individuals who are fascinated with the possibilities offered by the literal preamble to the constitution for the USA and in physics-based civic morality. I started moving Baton Rouge specific posts on promotethepreamble.blogspot.com to cipbr.blogspot.com to improve organization. J T McQuitty had suggested a.    “The Treacherous Road from Physics to Biology,” Howard Gest, 1994. It does not address physics-based ethics at all, rather tacitly claims that the transition from physics to life requires a god. That’s an opinion coming from the god hypothesis, which understood physics neither denies nor supports. (Why is there anything? may not be a valid question.) Also, McQuitty suggested the coursera course “Moral Foundations of Politics” My take away for our purposes is as follows:       Conclusion from the course, sometimes in my words and opinions You can’t get the politics out of politics Science, a study, cannot resolve power struggles Power must have a moral basis Opinion is not a sufficient basis Past thinkers (like Jeremy Bentham) proposed using science but were bound by its semantics as a discipline of study, whereas our proposal is to admit we do not know what we do not know but intentionally to use what has been discovered about physics, defined as energy, mass and space-time, from which moral politics emerges. To make our point, we must take the reader through the giant leap from the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago, to the 2016 struggle between the objective truth versus opinion in civic morality. Perhaps John Locke’s 1690 focus on safety and security (not provided by the Hobbes idea of the state of nature) corresponds to Albert Einstein’s wish to lessen misery and loss. For simplicity, we will switch to Locke’s phrase: safety and security. Morality in politics requires Majority rule toward no-real-harm People who are affected by governance must have a say The system must prevent factional domination. A political system is required and the least dysfunctional is labeled “democracy,” one of a family of systems with these characteristics The system prevents chaos, often arguably called “the state of nature” Not divided into majority and minority, but made up of many segments; imagine a circle with a 15% segment to which is added cross segments of 5%, 25%, 35%, 49% and more. Note: this model is OK for moral philosophy but it has not caught on with the Marxist liberation theologists and Alinsky disciples who disrupt law and order in American cities Mobocracy is still the form of democracy known by the masses Vigilantism still prevails in some communities in America Certainty is not feasible, so humans must accept fallibility Progress corrects paradigms Deductive thinking yields to discovered reality Democracy requires Individual role in decision making, at least by voting Right to oppose Hope for future relief from grievance No Catch 22 that causes permanent alienation Cyclic deliberation rather than imposition Exclusion from satisfying the meaning of life or spiritual uplifting Provides a subordinate good in support of living rather than a purpose for living Accommodates ubiquitous powers that serve the people Supportive considerations I want to follow-up first The will of the people is impossible to learn: plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/ Power is ubiquitous plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/ plato.stanford.edu/entries/adaptationism/ plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-british/ plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-british/ plato.stanford.edu/entries/friedrich-hayek/ I am still reluctant to add to the list of Online resources. The suggestions we listed in the past are posted in one file at cipbr.blogspot.com. The special session of the Louisiana legislation was very disappointing, yet getting tax increases Governor Edwards wanted might clear the way for eliminating fraud and waste. End

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