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If you could advocate for ONE cause only, what would it be? Why?
Recently, I watched Faith Jegede's talk titled "What I've learned from my autistic brothers". The talk got me thinking -- Most of us have a cause we believe in, and these causes are usually diverse from increasing fashion consciousnes to saving the animals or reducing stigma of people with mental health issues.
I'm interested to know about the cause you believe in and the one you would advocate for. I'm interested in why this particular cause is important to you, and why the world needs to know about it.
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greg dahlen 20+
If someone appears to be disrespecting you, they may be looking for an excuse to take your stuff.
greg dahlen 20+
if you can't find one of these orgs that you like, there's obviously a million issues to work on, and they all involve respect. For example, a pacifist organization tries to get people to not make war, and I'm sure one of the ways they do it is to promote respect.
Anne N
greg dahlen 20+
Anne, your syntax is funny because you ask what cause people would advocate for, what do you mean "would advocate for"? Do you not think people are already advocating for the causes they believe in? In my case, for example, I have often gone next door and asked my neighbor to turn the music down.
What cause matters most to you? Are you already advocating for it? If not, why not?
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Anne N
The cause that matters most to me is a mutual respect between people regardless of factors that may separate them. To treat others the way one would want to be treated and to not intentionally harm anyone either physically or emotionally. To respect one another as well as one another's dreams and beliefs.
I don't mean that people have to agree with one another. Rather, they should respect one another. I think the world would be filled with less arguments, and that more children would be able to chase their true passions and goals from a young age instead of having their dreams disrespected. Having said that, many people do practice mutual respect. It's also sometimes difficult to practice mutual respect.
I would say that I do not advocate for mutual respect per se but I practice respecting others in my daily life and hope/ am happy when others show me the same courtesy.
greg dahlen 20+
if you're practicing what you believe, then I think you're advocating for it. Do you find in your daily practice of respect that it's hard, that you sometimes have to fight to respect someone, or fight to get their respect? Because usually when we advocate for something we're saying we have to fight for it, that it doesn't come freely.
Do you wish you had a cause that you could fight for in a larger sense, like do you wish you could join an organization like save the whales? Because I'm thinking the cause of mutual respect might be too vast, and subjective. It's an issue that shows up in every other issue, so it's too vast; and it's a little subjective because respect to one might not be to another. Maybe you need to find a specific issue, like animal rights, or women's rights, or..........? The issue of mutual respect could be related to civil rights, like if we're racist we're not showing respect. What are civil rights like in Singapore, is there a tolerance of different races and religions?
Anne N
Good point about how two people may respect one another but hammer one another down on power trips. More often than not, I feel that this can be attributed to disrespect of each others' opinions though. However, as you pointed out, mutual respect is indeed subjective!
I identify disrespect in other ways as well. For example, I feel that groups of people are often stigmatised because they are disrespected and the disrespect comes in the form of others thinking they are unable to take care of themselves/ less smart/ more cruel/ etc. I guess you could say that I think stigma is built partially on disrespect.
In my daily practice of respect, I do not find it difficult to gain respect most of the time. Mainly because I find that when one respects others, others tend to respect oneself. There are of course, times when respect is hard-earned or hard to give. I believe this usually comes about because of a difference in values. In this case, I usually try to stop myself from thinking that I am right and the other person is wrong. Perhaps we're both different kinds of right/ wrong.
In Singapore, I do feel that people are largely tolerant and accepting of different races and religions. For example, people often have groups of friends consisting of people of different races and religions and we often discuss one another's cultures so as to be more culturally aware. People in Singapore often invite one another to celebrate each others' festivals/ holidays together as well.
Rafi Amin 20+
I live in Afghanistan and I have been living in war since I came to this world. I want to stop it.
Borrah Campbell
Successful fusion energy would lead to global energy independence, world peace, an end to world hunger, and increased quality of life for just about everyone. The lack of abundant free energy is the bane of human existence!
Lawren Jones 10+
World Peace without civil rights is totalitarianism.
Security without civil rights is fascism
Health without civil rights is slavery.
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
PS: We = humanity.
Anne N
What do you envision in a world that is completely at peace? :)
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
Just as the world as it is can not be totally crime free, or free from people who would cheat in relationships.
But excellence or perfection should always be set as the ideal worth pursuing. There would always be criminal elements, but societies are to encourage crime-free campaigns; there will always be cheating husbands/wives, but spouses still expected and strive for faithfulness. Not all sprinters would win olympic medals but they have to set their sights of becoming the best.
World peace is a laudable pursuit.
Hopelessness and mediocrity has hardly ever solved problems or made the world a better place.
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
Just as the world as it is can not be totally crime free, or free from people who would cheat in relationships.
But excellence or perfection should always be set as the ideal worth pursuing. There would always be criminal elements, but societies are to encourage crime-free campaigns; there will always be cheating husbands/wives, but spouses still expected and strive for faithfulness. Not all sprinters would win olympic medals but they have to set their sights of becoming the best.
World peace is a laudable pursuit.
Hopelessness and mediocrity has hardly ever solved problems or made the world a better place.
Random Chance 30+
The one thing humans have been fighting for since the beginning.
The one endangered species that is fast disappearing.
The one thing all people have been given by birth, by the act of birth.
The one thing that virtually all leaders everywhere want to destroy or take away.
That should tell you something about how important it is.
It is more important than just about anything else.
It was a concept that drove others to risk everything in their attempts to try and reach the promised land that the world knew for the first time as America.
America is now almost gone. The land remains. The liberties don't.
The space is there, but the movement is restricted, followed, tracked, surveilled, noted and filmed.
The toys are too but they are merely machines to spy with.
The polarization is still there, just not North and South.
It is Fascism or Freedom fighters.
It is business as usual and most vaguely agree with this because it is a sound byte, etched and cemented into the public's psyche.
Only it is prison business as usual.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
Salim Solaiman 50+
That's my one reason
Gail . 50+