Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The
comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society.
Consider writing a personal
paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer &
practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate
responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to
other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787,
text, unless it is amended by the people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or
not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this
independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states
deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who
collaborate for human justice.
Every citizen
has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in
the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try
somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the
goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies
grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to
discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.
Selected theme from this week
A civic psychology of necessity and justice
The human-being acts on necessity and justice more beneficially
than on intelligence and knowledge.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-fairly-monitor-your-own-intelligence?
by Graham C Lindsay
Merriam-webster.com presents, for intelligence “the ability
to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; also: the
skilled use of reason”. For psychology, “the way a person
thinks”. If there are no objections, I’d like to address psychology more than
intelligence.
And I claim today, October 9, 2021, that my person’s
psychology articulates a journey toward the combination: open-mind&
open-heart. [The hyphens to urge the reader not to disassemble, and the
“thought1& thought2” syntax to indicate mutual requirement.]
On my way to adolescence, I observed that humankind had
discovered so much reality I could never master it. However, my parents and the community they
chose inculcated the idea that if I would master Bible interpretation, my life
would succeed. I also observed that Mom and Dad clashed over personal-Bible
interpretation. Even though Dad would sometimes get frustrated with fellow
citizens, including family, his interpretation seemingly dominated my interest.
If I had to guess, I’d say his person had each: high
intelligence, all the knowledge he could access while living the life for
the-good he perceived, wounded psychology, and unwitty temper. (I think Jesus
was calm when he turned over money tables.) Dad alienated himself by bitterly
knowing-more than fellow-citizens including family wanted to consider. He
behaved with an open-mind and generous-heart, and nourished frustration when he
was not treated as a fellow-citizen, let alone a fellow human-being. (On
graduating from college (1966), I enrolled in whole-life insurance because Dad
said I could not insult his insurance salesman in Dad’s home. As soon as I had
a home and wife (1971), I dropped out and started term life insurance to cover
her for life.)
As I write, I commit-to and trust-in my intention to never
allow frustration invade my life again. (It’s a done deal in this, my third
quarter century. I know this, because I suddenly quit smoking in 1972 when I
accepted that smoking Camel cigarettes was killing me then suddenly quit
alcohol in 2018 upon accepting that wine and beer were killing me. Thank you,
Dad. And thank you, Maryann, who heard about my most recent elevated-voice and subsequent
choice to constrain-for-life frustration’s power.
Now, to address your question. I think knowledge is one of
the threats to an intelligent human-being’s chance to discover their person. If
knowledge is not balanced with the humble-integrity to practice civic
responsible-human-independence (RHI), the most intelligent person
can be a fool. By “civic” I mean appreciating mutually-responsible-human-connections
more than observing municipal rules. During my last couple decades, I accepted
the practice of sharing my mantra “I don’t know” when I don’t know yet sharing
what I think when I think the other party might have a better idea, if I can
accurately and precisely convey my idea by listening to their reaction whether
positive or negative, and working to accommodate their view if I think it
improves my expression. Perhaps our mutually-developed ultimate expression will
appeal to most people’s experiences, observations, and career responsibility.
For example, the Christian who claims to know Jesus and
witness for Christ (Phil Beaver in the past), has never considered how Jesus
might respond to the egocentric claim. It seems that a “person of faith” is
satisfied with self-praise.
Mom and Dad were such excellent working-class providers! I
strived to be the Christian they each wanted until I realized they were in
conflict with each other about what that meant (until death parted them). If I
had to say, it seems Mom’s ideal was to perform according to her Jesus-comprehension,
whereas Dad dialogued with fellow-citizens to help him understand Jesus’ mysterious
messages. Upon awareness, I suspected Dad was psychologically wounded when at
age 12 his-dad died of cancer, leaving no life insurance for wife and three
children. They moved from Tennessee to Colorado to survive. And Dad’s 5 uncles
did nothing to help the family of four. Make no mistake: I am speculating and
do not know the facts. What I know is that Dad remained his-Bible interpreter
until death, always with the intention to take responsibility for his life . .
. except when he smoked Camels, Chesterfields, or pipe or overdrank beer. He
loved beer-drinking and sharing it with me and others.
A more pernicious tyranny is government-officials using of
the historical-Jesus-mystery as metaphysics for political power --- to persuade
willing citizens to resist personally-private-psychological-pursuit of RHI
and depend on a higher power.
For example, President Donald Trump, taking USA political
power as the Anglo-American-freedom-of-religion that has constrained the USA to
English tradition rather than national-independence since March, 1788, when the
First Congress was seated. I voted for Trump-Pence 4 times and thus am among
the 14 million who made the Trump presidency possible. I always doubted the
Pence choice, because he seemed a fundamentalist Christian. The nightmare is
worse than I could have imagined.
On January 4, 2021, Pence, after saying each: he had Trump’s
back, U.S. voters would have their day on January 6, but January 5 was
Georgia’s day, “witnessed for Christ”. It was Pence’s declaration of
independence from the USA in-order-to personally risk “witnessing” for Jesus. See
https://www.c-span.org/video/?507700-1/vice-president-pence-campaigns-georgia-republican-senators-perdue-loeffler
at about 34 minutes.
Pence may overlook the metaphysics of reports about Jesus’
statements: be perfect [in the image of God], render unto Caesar, and before
Abraham was born I AM. Perhaps in these three messages and
others Jesus was saying: humble-integrity toward necessity& justice invited
responsible-human-independence (RHI) from the moment human-beings
invented the grammar required to develop mutual, civic awareness. Perhaps the
metaphysical Jesus is an author of the message reported by human scribes in Genesis
1:26-28. If so, Pence egocentrically denied both the metaphorical Jesus and the
entity We the People of the United States as expressed by the 1787 US
Constitution and the 1776 Declaration.
Comprehending some of the-ineluctable-truth discoveries during
the recent 5 thousand years, I interpret this 3 thousand year-old Genesis-1
literature: female& male-human-being can& must independently constrain
chaos to life in this world. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided,
changed, or resisted”. It is surprising and scholars’ fault that most readers
have never encountered “the-ineluctable-evidence” by which
the-ineluctable-truth can be discovered when the necessary instruments of
perception have been invented.
To the individual human-being, necessity& justice
demands constraining chaos in their way of living. My interpretations connect
Genesis 1:26-28 separation of church and state to the USA founders’ claim to RHI
authority from “Nature’s God” rather than England’s reformed-Catholic Trinity
and with France’s military providence “the Supreme Judge of the world”
affirmation of USA intentions. And the 1787 U.S. Constitution specifies 5
public disciplines, leaving spiritual pursuits to personal-privacy. The 5
disciplines are: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order
to” encourage& facilitate RHI “to ourselves and our
posterity”. As always, these are my opinions for discussion with willing
fellow-citizens.
Pence, with the arrogance to speak-for the mysterious Jesus,
rebuked his running mate, the Commander-in-Chief-of-the-United-States, and the
entity We the People of the United States who rely on the U.S. Constitution for
civic, civil, and legal order. Any person who does not accept that even the
wisest person on earth is wrong to impose a personal-metaphysics and neglect
the physics of fellow-citizens in order begs the choice: private ruin or reform.
President Donald Trump invited ruin when he chose to depend
on Christian voters for election victory and chose someone who does not accept
the mystery of Jesus as running mate. The future president who leads the U.S.
to independence from England, after the entity We the People of the United
State accommodated Anglo-American tyranny since March, 1788, will do so on the
principles both demanded and ironically neglected by a tyranny-accommodating
entity now into its twelfth generation: “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting
the preamble.
On the other hand, we, the 2021 “ourselves and our
Posterity” can restore 1776&1787 U.S. humble-integrity to
the-ineluctable-evidence. Citizens can read my controversial yet grounded
arguments, improve them with their experiences& observations, and promote U.S.
reform in personal-self-interest toward humble-integrity.
To conclude, I hope I have made the case that I hold my
knowledge and intelligence as relatively low, whereas I am developing my
psychology to both an open-mind and an open-heart. I therefore work to appeal
to fellow-citizens who are willing to encourage& facilitate articulations
with precision& accuracy to their experiences& observations. In private
dialogue, to the Christian who claims to have Jesus in their heart I ask, “Which
Jesus? Physical or metaphysical?” and to the atheist I comment “That’s a leap
of faith I cannot take; I wonder what caused physics& progeny.” Civically,
I propose to amend the U.S. First Amendment so as to promote civic
humble-integrity rather than accommodate civil, Judeo-Christian partnership
with Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President.
https://www.quora.com/In-what-cases-should-we-refuse-for-compelling-ethical-reasons-to-honor-the-social-norms-of-another-tradition-and-in-what-cases-should-we-incorporate-and-uphold-others-norms-How-will-we-decide-and-by-what-standard-or?
If the people who practice a tradition neither initiate nor
accommodate harm/injury to-or-from anyone, we should appreciate their
performances as responsible-human-individuals. We should not question or
attempt to evaluate their culture without their invitation to converse about.
On the other hand, we can accept and mimic their civic example while
responsibly pursuing the metaphysical happiness we privately-perceive.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-important-to-consider-cultural-knowledge-practices-and-expressions-as-the-intellectual-property-of-indigenous-people?
by Dayen Jenirose
The key word in your question is “consider”. If by
“consider” you mean appreciate indigenous people as human-beings and members of
humankind, persons who are responsibly
pursuing the happiness they perceive rather than chasing the chaos in their
environs, that’s important. Also,
it’s important to appreciate their personal-privacy. Let them voluntarily share
their culture, but don’t take the lead and question it. And by no means mimic
their culture, accepting that you cannot decide
to experience their motivations and inspirations. Nor can you experience the
personal-privacy in order to develop your perception of globalism or such.
On the other hand, if the culture is dependent on initiating
or accommodating harm/injury to fellow human beings, it is imperative to
constrain their practices that cause the harm and to encourage& facilitate
their interest in reform to responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Constraint is a function of the human collective, and the individual should
report offense or aggression to first-responders rather than imagine practicing
vigilantism.
If a person finds they are being recruited by an offensive
or aggressive culture, they should announce their exit and reasons for their
choice, then leave the group, perhaps reporting to first responders.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Compare-and-contrast-individualism-and-collectivism-Which-philosophy-do-you-believe?
by Reah Mae Geray
In the human-culture, people could . . . should civically-act
only for necessity& justice [the word1& word2 syntax to indicate mutual
obligation]. They’d reserve responsible pursuit of happiness for personal-privacy.
“Responsible” means neither initiating nor accommodating harm/injury to-or-from
any person or association, including self and family [the hyphens to invite
readers not to disassemble]. I call this ancient principle
“responsible-human-independence” (RHI).
Not every person is aware of these principles and not every
person who is aware of them chooses RHI. Some persons prefer a
dependency: indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. To
constrain the diverse, dependent fellow-citizens, the collective faction of
civic-fellow-citizens must be politically informed and active for life. They
must not only earn their way of living including taxes for infrastructure, the
infrastructure must include the constitutional law-enforcement system plus research
to discover and enact statutory justice.
The human-being has the authority to constrain chaos in
their life. Not everyone chooses the self-discipline that is essential to
fidelity in human connections and to the-ineluctable-evidence. “Ineluctable”
means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Consequently, humankind must
provide the mutual, comprehensive safety& security that is required for a
person to responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather than an image
another entity would impose on them.
To Bill Harris:
Thank you, Mr. Harris for your comment; maybe so. I’d like
to know your view of “collective”.
My post describes two collectives within humankind: 1)
independent human-beings who responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather
than subjugate to the happiness their collective perceives or any other entity
envisions for them and 2) dependent-fellow-citizens; I shared a list of groups
in that collective.
If the dependent collective overpowers the independent
collective, humankind will no longer be physically (economically) viable.
I write to learn: If this does not clarify my post, please
share the view of “collective” I’m missing.
To Bill Harris:
Thank you for the kind words and additional comments. I
agree fully
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/1-Explain-why-only-human-beings-can-be-ethical-2-Explain-freedom-as-foundation-for-moral-acts?
by Rea Moherna
Grammar and intent empower the individual to observe the
laws of physics to order personal-necessity& justice and assist posterity’s
march to the-good.
First, being a human-being requires intention to acquire comprehension&
integrity to responsible-human-intendance (RHI). [Note: The word1& word2
syntax indicates mutual requirement. And the hyphens invite readers not to
disassemble.] In my interpretation of the literature and experiences&
observations, RHI means that the person accepts the humble-integrity to
independently act on necessity& justice. For example, defense is un-needed
without attack in motion. Humble-integrity means saying “I don’t know” when
that is so, for life. And it informs personal-integrity or “honesty”.
Whereas a foal stands in 1 hour, it takes a human-newborn
about 11 months (335 hours) to stand. Similarly, with intense training, a
thoroughbred peaks in about 3 years, and an encouraged-to-RHI-human-being may
mature in 3 quarter-centuries (25 times as long). “Mature” means acquire
humble-independence from both internal and external constraints: no fear and no
victimhood. Maturity is independent of the freedom and liberty bestowed by institutions.
Only the human species has the awareness, language, and grammar by which to
accept these principles.
Physics and its progeny --- mathematics, the chemistries,
biology, psychology, imagination, research, fiction, indeed everything ---
makes it clear to human-beings that metaphysics does not overrule physics& progeny,
or simply “physics”. Thus, imagining a-God and developing a reasonable theism
awaits discovery of the negating physics. For example, many ancient cultures,
recognizing that overexposure to the sun could kill, opined not only that the
sun was the-God that rules consequences of every human act: also the
sun needs human souls and takes them at will. Some cultures developed doctrine
of human sacrifice to appease the-God.
Now, humankind rejects human-sacrifice to bargain with
the-God and discovered that the sun is a natural nuclear reactor rather than
the-God. So, physics has corrected 2 of 3 beliefs, the remaining belief being
theism: the search for the-God as an entity that will usurp RHI.
That is a-God that will prevent human free-will. Only the human-being who
personally-practices humble-integrity can pursue spiritualism/religion as well
as practice RHI. In deference to the-God, the civic-believer reserves sufficient
appreciation of that entity according to its existence (or none).
An extenuating cultural practice works against the
human-infant, who has exponentially more psychological power than a foal. Caretakers
and Education Departments, could . . . should encourage& coach human-beings
that they have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their way of living. Instead, Education
nourishes the “civilization” that the human-being will choose chaos unless disciplined
by a higher power: government or a-God or a partnership of the two. That
implies that accepting bestowed freedom and liberty is more in the person’s
self-interest than developing RHI. Supposedly, it makes no sense
to constrain chaos in your way of living, when everyone else is living a dependent
yet ostensibly gratifying-life. The dependencies include indolence, abuse,
infidelity, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.
Educators know that if dependency can be inculcated by age 3
to 7, it is not likely that the person will discover HIPEA and its use to
develop RHI. This is especially so if government partners with theism. Many
cultures inculcate the pursuit of higher power rather than the humble-integrity
required for RHI.
Turning now to your issues. First, “why can only humans be ethical?” I hope I have made the
case that Education Departments could . . . should encourage persons to accept
that no higher authority can impose ethics on a person’s way of living. Only
the individual human-being has the awareness and grammar by which to accept the
humble-integrity required for RHI.
Second, “explain
freedom as foundation for moral acts”. I hope I have made the case that acting
on metaphysics is erroneous, personal arrogance to “I don’t know” when that is
so. RHI
to physics is self-interest: accepting freedom is erroneous. It’s erroneous, for
two reasons. First, metaphysics attempts to circumvent the discovery of the
laws of physics, which determine the outcome of human actions. For example, if
a leader convinces everyone to drink poison, all except “infidels” die. Also,
Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) convince “soldiers” to march in self-licensed
liberty-to injure, kill, and destroy. The soldiers’ lives and futures are at
risk while the AMO is safe in the office. The recruit who anticipates human
misery and harm should report the anticipation to first responders. Second,
humankind has accumulated some 8 trillion person-years of experience&
observations, which the newborn could not master in 4 quarter centuries. If a
person accepts someone else’s vision for personal-happiness, they may die never
discovering their person’s responsible-happiness.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-the-pros-and-cons-of-common-good?
by Eka
The “common good” is political-power artisanship by
Englishman John Locke, d. 1704. It’s part of his popular scheme to claim that
the human-being is the property of the-God (Calvinist in Locke’s early
adulthood then Deist or Lockeist in his later years). Thus, his equal rights of
man, “life, liberty, and property”, are circular to the-God’s property. It’s a
mixed property, accommodating monarchy, clergy, lords, and commoners, all intending
their duties to the-God. (Note: I use hyphens to invite the reader not to
disassemble my expressions. Also, below, I use a “word1& word2” syntax to
express nouns and verbs that are mutually dependent. The space allows
spell-check.)
Americans became colonists, many to escape religious
imposition on their private-pursuits of metaphysics or none. Beginning in 1763,
their angst found a more physical focus: unrepresentative taxation to pay
England’s war debts.
By 1776, the founders opposed Locke’s political art and
wrote their own claim to rights: “live, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”.
They were nonetheless metaphysical, because no human organization can warrant
any of life, liberty, property, or pursuit of happiness. However, they
expressed a bold politic: separation of church and state; personal-privacy and
public duty. The staked authority on “Nature’s God” rather
than England’s reformed-Catholic-Trinity and affirmation on “the
Supreme Judge of the world” or military victory. In 1778, they negotiated
France’s military providence to assure USA’s independence. They drafted
grievance over England’s African slave-trade to America, but could not resolve
the domestic economic-issues; slaves states outnumbered non-slave states 8:5.
After independence was won, the Continental Congress could not unify the 13
free& independent states and had no global influence.
Taking responsibility, 12 of 13 states sent delegates to
strengthen the union. Framers displaced the founders, designed a republic to be
held accountable by informed& self-disciplined citizens in their answerable
states, excluded slave-trade 20 years hence, and provided 3/5 slave
representation in affected states. The continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”
since 1787 can lament failure to emancipate the slaves. However, no one in 2021
offers necessity& justice to terminate the consequence of slavery in
America. Does a viable plan exist?
I think so. An applicable political philosophy emerged in
the Middle East 5 thousand year ago. That’s 295 thousand years after our
human-being mutation, homo sapiens, emerged. The philosophy,
in my 2021 interpretation is: female& male-human-being can& must
independently& together provide order& prosperity to life in this
world. To the individual human-being this means to constrain chaos in their way
of living, regardless of a conflicted world.
The ancient philosophy was recorded 2 thousand years later
in the scribe’s vernacular with a plural common-noun for deity: Elohim. That’s
in Genesis 1. In Genesis 2, YHWH Elohim, a proper name, appears, implying that Israel’s God
is the-God. From Genesis 2 on, the extant Bible canon journal humankind’s
struggle to harness the-God so as to usurp the human-being’s responsibility
to constrain chaos in their way of living. Clearly, if the-God assigned
provision of order& prosperity in life to humankind, it is an ineluctable
duty. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.
Remarkably,
the 1776 Declaration together with the 1787 U.S. Constitution intend to end
slavery --- the trade 20 years after ratification and emancipation as soon as a
practicable solution is discovered. Moreover, they intend to establish
responsible-human-independence in the USA. Practicality emerged in 1858 with
the slave-states ratio lessened to 15:17.
Each
citizen is free to consider the documents and draw their own comprehension and personal-citizenship
intentions or none. My intention and practice follows: Intending to be of the faction We the People
of the United States, I, Phil Beaver, practice the 5 public disciplines ---
integrity, justice, peace, strength, and posterity, “in order to” exercise&
encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our
Posterity” including legal immigrants.
In
this interpretation, I have preserved the U.S. Constitution’s reservation of
religion or none to personal-privacy, refrain from limiting the goals’
standards. Also, I acceptance that “liberty” is too often taken as license to
let fellow-citizens’ blood. Further, “freedom” is a bestowal by the victor in
war rather than RHI by individual fellow-citizens.
I
share this hard-earned opinion so as to engage fellow-citizens, in order to
learn from them. In case their experiences and observations invoke similar
concerns, I hope together to influence we, the 2021 “ourselves and our
Posterity” to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic
RHI
rather than civil U.S.-religious-pride.
https://www.quora.com/Is-equal-treatment-a-social-justice-principle-or-what-is-it-actually-is?
by Ibrahim
That’s a brilliant question, Ibrahim. I hope you’ll find my
answer useful for an achievable better future. I think the direct answer is Yes.
Most people do not want to govern, because they just want to
responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive for their one chance at life
rather than submit to another entity’s vision for them. Therefore, they do not
choose to participate in politics. On the other hand, most people who choose a
career in governance perceive personal nobility, demand elite status, and grow
wealth. The elites in society must find a way to make this arrangement seem
like social justice so that the people will neither rebel nor immigrate.
The reform I prefer is to require the world’s education
departments to change from Barack Obama’s notion “schools and colleges to train
our workers” to encourage&facilitate each person’s transition from child to
human-being with the comprehension and intention to achieve psychological
maturity. That is, responsible-human-independence (RHI) from both internal
and external constraints to humble-integrity. I think the world is bemused by
bestowed-equality as a surrogate for personal-happiness.
The egregious, extoled thought is Englishman John Locke’s
equality of “life, liberty, and property”. Since each human-being is a property
of the-God, they cannot be denied life, liberty, and property. They cannot even
eliminate their own property of the-God, and no property of the-God would
slight another property of the-God. In the-God’s mixed society, there are the
monarchy, clergy, noblemen, and commoners, and each must conform to the-God’s
assignment.
Independence from English religious tyranny and mixed
citizenship was the intention of the USA founders in 1776, with victory in
1781. However, the 13 free and independent states did not respond to the
Continental Congress and had no global power. The framers specified a republic
to be held accountable by self-disciplined people in their states under a
constitution amendable by the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”. However,
the first Congress mimicked England’s 1689 Bill of Rights, re-establishing
Anglo-American legal precedence.
The U.S. has yet to accept independence from England, after
230 years.
Under the 1787 U.S. Constitution, each inhabitant has equal
opportunity to choose to aid practice&facilitation of RHI or choose a
dependency, risking service from a bureaucrat or the law-enforcement system if
the dependency is criminal or worse.
https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-make-the-negative-effect-of-communitarianism-into-a-positive-one?
by Jelson Monera
A political philosophy in the Middle East 5 thousand years
ago suggested that female&male-human-being can provide order&prosperity
to the living species in this world.
Accepting this suggestion, the individual might perceive a
civic responsibility to constrain chaos in their way of living, in order to
gain maximum benefit from “I can provide order&prosperity”. “Civic” here
means reliable human connections more than community-ethics. Civic-citizens
limit and offset the chaos they observe.
The civic person practices reliability no matter what and
encourages fellow-citizens to mimic their public discipline while responsibly
pursuing the happiness they want. Not everyone perceives the self-interest of
civic-reliability, so there remains a faction of fellow-citizens who depend on
order&prosperity more than earn it: indolent persons, abusers, criminals,
tyrants, and worse.
Consequently, the civic-citizens must continue to fund both
law-enforcement and research toward statutory justice. Law-enforcement is
applied only when someone caused harm or injury. It is well known that the
purpose of law-enforcement is to alert the offending citizen that better
behavior is needed, to constrain their practice, and to facilitate reform they
request.
The civic-citizen is aware of the value of infrastructure
and considers statutory-justice one element in addition to providence for
people who need aid. Therefore, they earn their tax payments and needed way of
living to responsibly pursue their happiness rather than the image someone else
has for them. They participate for life in holding local, state, and federal
government responsible.
I think the community I described is attractive because the
principles are: acceptance that a person can constrain chaos in their way of
living, private determination of the happiness to pursue, and acceptance that
some fellow-citizens will cause harm if not motivated by potential loss of
opportunity to pursue their happiness (working for a utopia is futile, but if
it happens, fine).
https://www.quora.com/John-Austin-believed-that-the-existence-of-a-law-is-one-thing-its-merit-or-demerit-is-another-Does-this-statement-reflect-your-understanding-of-law?
by Saiku Barrie
Yes. In fact, I think the U.S. Supreme Court needs reform
from law by opinion to law according to the-ineluctable-evidence. “Ineluctable”
means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. The only source of ineluctable
evidence is physics and its progeny --- mathematics, the chemistries, biology,
psychology, imagination, fiction, lies, crime; everything. None of the human
constructs --- reason, revelation, ethics, etc. --- withstand the eventual
comprehension of the-ineluctable-evidence. For example, the absence of weapons
of mass destruction settled the controversy of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Which
Bush? Do we really know?
Especially egregious is the Court’s use of erroneous
precedent. For example, in Ramos v Louisiana (2020) the court accepted the case
based on plaintiff’s mischaracterization of U.S. Amendment VI’s “impartial” to
mean “unanimous”. The 6:3 opinion, which negated a prior, correct 4:5 opinion,
requires Louisiana to change from 10:2 opinion to 12:0 opinion. The cited
precedent is obsolete 14th Century English Law. In 1967, England
changed from 12:0 to 10:2 in order to lessen organized-crime’s influence in
criminal trials with jury.
At fault is the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity”, who are
satisfied to let civil activists dictate increasingly divergent chaos for the
foreseeable future.
I write daily to interest U.S. citizens in amending the
First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence
(RHI) rather than civil religious-pride to Congress&Court.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-relationship-of-man-and-his-environment-to-philosophy-epistemology-and-anthropology?
by Euligio Marfil
I think you ask how an individual in their culture relates
to awareness of each: prior thought, valid discernment, and prior practices. In
the absence of 3 reliable journals, the civic person must acquire
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
To the extent that the modern individual’s culture has
awareness and prevention of repeating mistakes of the past, they may
independently pursue their happiness in practicing necessity and justice for
their posterity. If their culture has no regard for philosophy, epistemology,
and anthropology, the inhabitants invite repetition of past travesties and
consequences.
It is obvious that this world and its individual nations
have nourished error so seriously that the 2021 consequence is divergent chaos.
For example, the US nation of people once had a currency so reliable the world
accepted it to replace the gold standard. They now approach $30 trillion debt
to pay for both domestic and foreign alien-entitlements.
Consequently, the prudent fellow-citizen of the world is
prudent to reserve a significant fraction of “amusement” time studying your
three topics.
Over 4 decades ago, I began a self-directed, earnest study
to answer two questions: with so many wonderful people in the world, why is
there so much conflict? And with such a wonderful constitution, why do U.S.
citizens tolerate tolerance rather than appreciation?
First, civilizations, cultures, and societies “shelter” their
youth from encouragement and facilitation to appreciate and take charge of
their unique human-being; to develop a complete person. Humankind has, for the
recent 5 thousand years resisted the suggestion that female&male-human-being
is independently
responsible for peace and prosperity in this world.
Second, after winning independence (after negotiating France’s
military providence in 1778), the USA stumbled as a confederacy of states. The
U.S. framed a constitutional republic that affirmed RHI “to ourselves and our
Posterity”.
However, the First Congress, under 11 states, immediately
restored Anglo-American tradition, especially legislative partnership with
Protestant-Christianity. They employed John Locke (English) philosophy ---
freedom, liberty, property of God, consent of the governed --- to distract the
people from RHI. In 1791, they codified the tyranny over the continuum
“ourselves and our Posterity” by mimicking, as much as possible, the 1689
English Bill of Rights.
This egregious repression of U.S, independence from
Anglo-American tradition is affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. For example,
listen to Chief Justice John Roberts use slick interrogatory to try to avoid
the unconstitutionality of Joe Biden’s excuse for failure “. . . so help you
God?” Every presidential oath I witnessed since I noticed this tyranny featured
the interrogatory presentation by the chief justice.
Mr. Marfil, I bet you agree these three topics have
subtopics and related journals. Appreciating history is best approached by reading essential documents the era
produced. In this case, the essential dots, working backwards, are: 1) does the
1791 Bill of Rights impose English
error on the U.S., 2) is religion among the 5 disciplines the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers, 3)
does the 1776 declaration of war
against England propose uSA-RHI, and 4) should
female&male-human-being accept independent responsibility for necessity and
justice in this world or beg the-God of Genesis 1:26-28 to usurp that duty
(suggested 5 thousand years ago and reported 3 thousand years ago)?
Taking the documents in chronological sequence and applying
your 2021 experiences, observations, and appreciation of humankind’s recent
discoveries, how does each document suggest RHI as necessary for developing a
psychologically mature human-being: their unique person in their chosen
happiness? What must the individual do if their nation does not
encourage&facilitate RHI?
I think we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” must&can amend the U.S.
First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather
than accommodate the religion-Congress-Court tyranny over the entity We the
People of the United States has suffered since 1789: establish responsible,
individual human-happiness at last.
Law professors
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JT, The
Advocate called me last night and offered a full subscription for Saturday and
Sunday cost. A few months ago I had turned down an offer for Sunday only cost.
When I said No, the agent asked why. I answered that The Advocate was a leftist
political activist and they therefore cannot receive my money. She said she had
heard that from other prior subscribers and that I could rejoin the public
debate with comments and letters to the editor. I said, "I've been there
and done that and am not going back to before. I sincerely hope The Advocate
goes bankrupt." She seemed to accept that message. During 20 years of letter-to
the editor writing, about 1994 through maybe 2014 or so, I learned that the
First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press to constrain the letter
writers: I was stubborn and resisted the message The Advocate happily offered
me, but finally accepted it and started my own blogs. You might say in my
protected space my praise for my work is sufficient.
Note: Below, I use “Word1&Word2” syntax to express
mutually dependent nouns or verbs.)
I started to post the idea that a civic-culture
encourages&facilitates the civic-individual and vice-versa.
However, it developed into a proposal for U.S.-voter-licensing. Both domestic and
foreign aliens to U.S. civic-intentions should be constrained from voting. The
1776&1787 intention, unconstitutionally repressed by Congress and the
Supreme Court, is the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” to develop
standards for responsible-human-independence (RHI) under an
informed&self-disciplined entity, We the People of the United States.
A civic-culture encourages&facilitates self-interest in
necessity&justice; “civic” expresses fidelity in direct-human-being-connections
more than observing municipal rules. Each citizen may choose to responsibly
pursue the happiness they perceive during each stage of their life. Some choose
to act on necessity and therefore develop the humble-integrity that is required
for RHI.
Irresponsibly, some individuals take the freedom&liberty to nourish
arbitrarily-dependent-satisfaction: indolence, abuse, crime, tyranny, evil, or
worse. Dependents unnecessarily risk harm&injury and often invite
law-enforcement . . . even though the culture may-not-yet-have-discovered
statutory-justice. Therefore, civic-citizens happily earn not only their way of
living and pay taxes: They actively
maintain and improve government of the necessary-infrastructure. Some run for election,
in order to serve fellow-citizens.
Elected and appointed government officials must first be
civic-citizens. If they are one
of the dependent-fellow-citizens, they must be un-elected or fired.
The voter who lives by one of the dependencies must be
identified then encouraged to reform to personal self-interest. Otherwise,
justice may require constraining them from the vote.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees a republican form of
government, held accountable by the people in their states. Voters have the
power to amend the Constitution.
The constitutional intention is stated in the preamble. After
France’s bloody revolution, the 1787 preamble has needed revision so as to
accept that since 1789 “liberty” has too often been taken as license to shed
fellow-citizens’ blood: “independence” is preferred. The preamble
already excludes ideologies and religious-doctrine from its public goals. The
fellow-citizen who does not support U.S. intentions should not be issued a
license to vote. Their reasonable interpretation of the preamble is sufficient
basis for demonstrating past performance and future intentions.
My interpretation of the U.S. intentions this morning
follows: Voluntarily accepting the intentions proffered by the entity We the
People of the United States, I have for the past 6 years practiced its 5
disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to”
practice&facilitate RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”; “posterity” means
descendant-citizens and legal immigrants. As evidence of my discipline, I
attach my college diploma and the subsequent three years’ tax payments [or
other actual evidence].
Consistent with the quarter century for the human body to
complete constructing the wisdom-building parts of the brain, application for a
license to vote should be allowed at age 24.
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent
for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit
corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays
from the latest and going back as far as you like.
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