Given the Power, What Would you Change About the World?

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We have completed our Series on the Morality of Eating Meat. The next two discussions/debates will be:

1. Under a Veil of Ignorance what would a fair society look like. We decided that one aspect of a society we would like to have is one where people would have some degree of freedom to choose which type of society they would like to be in. So this may be something like a society with things that appeal to a broad array of different personality types to a society/country with a lot of sub societies (communes) each with their own governance structure, whereby people can choose to live in one commune vs. another depending on what appeals to them. So the freedom of different viewpoints and perspectives is a society that most or all deem to be one that leads to fairness.

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2. What would you change about the world if you were an all powerful Supreme Leader of the Planet?

Overall, In this series we discuss great questions of philosophy. You could call what we are doing debate style or open forum, but participants are free to give their ideas and challenge others while discussing the topic of the week. Each week I will choose from one of hundreds of topics such as: are humans innately good or evil, what makes us human, did you exist before you were born, and does god (a supreme mind) exist. I think a Socratic method/critical analysis of questions where each assumption held on a particular topic is questioned to dig deeper is a good way to make progress.

The Zoom link will be posted shortly before the event. I have installed a timer in Zoom, so a timer will start automatically when you start speaking, I am setting a 3 minute time limit on each speaker. Once a speaker talks anyone can follow up with a counter point, question, or continuing thought along the same line of thought (leave such comments to 1 minute). But do not begin a new train of thought unless you raise your hand. I will set a 5 minute timer for all follow up to an original speaker.