[extropy-chat] Politics

[Dirk Bruere]

On 12/29/05, nvitamore at austin.rr.com <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>
> From: Harvey Newstrom
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> > As my original note pointed out, all "solutions" fail some
> >segment of the community.  There seems to be no answer that everyone
> >finds acceptable.  No matter which we chose, some segment of the
> >audience will leave.  I have no idea what the answer is, because
> >different people have different criteria for the list.
>
> My ideal discussion would be to approach an issue/problem from
> multidisciplinary, and domain-diversity, viewpoints.  Rather than beating
> the donkey or elephant silly, it would be more extropic to take an issue
> such as getting vaccines to developing countries or proactively fighting
> for individual (human) rights and work at finding a solution.  For
> example,
> if a topic is "POL-STEE: Vaccines & Dev. Countries," posters would apply
> domain-diversity in their suggested solutions by looking at the issue from
> social, technological, economic and environmental perspectives.
>
> Rather than pushing party politics, posters would push the domain "ideas"
> to solve the problem.  In the end, this would mean that the solution
> finding would be non-partisan and focused on solutions rather than
> personal
> politics.
>
>
That works for well defined technical problems.
It does not work if some dispute that there is a problem, or for social
problems that involve cultural clashes.
How would you use your technique to resolve the abortion debate in the US?

Dirk
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