Senna Jawa
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The Art of Agreement
There is one and only one commandment:
Do not impose on others
The implications are: don't kill, don't use violence, don't enslave anybody. And you yourself should not be imposed upon, and in particular--defend yourself against being killed, against violence, against attempts to be enslaved.
But the commandment has also a much more subtle and general meaning. It is concerned with every aspect of the human world--of individuals and of the societies. This is what the Art of Agreement is about.
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Those who do not impose are the most peaceful people, by the very commandment. And only when others are imposing on them then... then what do you want?!
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One may dwell on the non-imposition principle but this commandment is not a topic for an intellectual discussion. After all your dwelling you accept this commandment or you violate it. This is not an intellectual question, this is about the ethics. If you do impose (against the commandment) then you are not ethical. There can be no excuse.
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The principle is ethical but it is the only approach which carries the promise of a happy and prosperous society, and even of a much more intelligent society.
These days we have the resources to let everybody live under comfortable material conditions, meaning food, clothes, shelter, education, and health support. All this is almost impossible due to CHAOS, but there is a chance. An essential (necessary) part of the CHAOS are flukes (fluctuations). It is possible, while unlikely, to have beautiful fluctuations. One should live for great flukes.
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One of the principles of the Art of Agreement is the incremental progress. To have it in several local places/dimensions is already a nice fluke, and when certain threshold is achieved it may achieve a larger fluke of higher quality, and additional stability can be gained from it.
The road to a larger successes is hard, nearly impossible, but already every progress is fun to enjoy it. The Art of Agreement is the most practical approach, and this is the only approach which can make the humans happy. All this is really a tautology.
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