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What is the most important goal for humanity to pursue?

Regina asks each person to take action in pursuit of an important goal. If you had to pick one important goal on which to focus your efforts above all other goals, which goal would you pick? Would you choose to solve world hunger, poverty, end war, cure cancer, develop fusion, interstellar flight, something else entirely? Why?

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    Apr 18 2012: The technical problems are easy to solve if humanity works together. That sort of cooperation is not possible in a socio-economic environment that promotes competition and rewards economic activity, rather than progress. We need to fix this and then all the other goals will follow naturally.

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