Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
maybe its a mis-characterisation on my part, i always percieve lefty politics as pessimistic and with zero trust in humans to get along without guidelines, strictures, and conditioning.
It depends. Individuality with people, on a grander scale, I think it is a possibility on what I deducted is "right" to occur. It is only realistic to know that if I stood up saying what to do as an end result, I will be shot down to pieces by 60 odd people, on this sub-forum alone, never mind at a political congress. Many criticisms would be the practicality, if not ideological opposition, and many people cannot see the steps and stages part, but only looking at end results which right now, would be completely unviable.

Aren't politics inherently pessimistic? I as a whole, see many laws as pointless and if anything, against the idea of laws (I approve of rights though). On the downside, some of these are in place to deter people, and they are 100% successful in that either.

In a sense, I wish I was more egocentric as in, I believe this can be a certain way, as by "people" I mean those just like myself, think on the same morale beliefs and guidelines as I do. Unfortunately, I am quite empathic and I know exactly that people aren't like me.

In many ways, a conditioning which occurs to us everyday and everywhere, needs to be conducted in some way to help people go along the path to obtain some characteristics. It is a powerful tool that can be used for good purposes, or evil purposes.

More towards your point, I will comment on each bit.

Guidelines: Are these bad? From your mother saying not to put your hand in acid, to packaging saying "this substance is flammable". I be honest, I need need more specification on what you mean, because I am failing to see how this is bad.

Strictures: "A rule restricting behaviour or action" this can be summed up as "Do not murder". I think we can all agree there are restrictions on behaviour. On one-hand, to me and you, I know going out into the streets murdering bystanders is a pretty much a good thing to have a rule against. What I think you are meaning, is regulation of sorts or more personal affairs? The left is pretty open, a quote a youtube video I saw ages ago,in reference to sex for example.. I can't seem to find it at the moment, so I will edit in later if I do... however, main message is what people do in the bedroom is not my business, it is not your business, it is not our business, etc. It is generally what is classed as ont he right, with especially the religious ones that do believe on strictures in these regards.

Conditioning: We are conditioned constantly, right now, on the TV, in magazines and newspapers. We cannot be helped but be conditioned. As for outright conditioning, I propose a model which gets you thinking, and legitimises certain points of view, such as the value of human life, etc through your own understanding, actually getting people to develop these thoughts, opposed to just telling then, and shutting them up.