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About Me

Location:
United States, Rockville, MD
Current organization:
Junior State of America
Past organizations:
National Forensic League
Current role:
Director of Fundraising & Marketing
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Econmics, Politics & Government, Philosophy, Altruistic Living, Culture
I am:
Activist, Artist, Athlete, Explorer, Finance professional, Idea generator, Investor, Jewish, Musician, Performer
Languages:
English, Hebrew
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    A comment on Conversation: What leads us to decide?

    Apr 9 2013: The interesting thing about how we make decisions is that our decisions will always be based off of the people around us. We try so hard to have some sort of stature in society and we want to be seen as someone successful, but success is not always the same in every society. Like in America we assume that the best thing for us is to go to school get a good job and make money because those are tenants of American society. What we really want is to be connected to other people and by doing that we take in the opinions of others about what they think success means in order to reach that level of connection. For us to truly decide individually we need to critically think about what is best for us, and in the end the thing that is best for us is the thing that brings us closer together, and to decide based off of others is not necessarily a bad thing, it should only be taken into question when the decisions we make prove to be harmful to others or ourselves.

  • A comment on Conversation: How can we prevent people from cashing in on other people's misfortunes?

    Apr 9 2013: You should not look at it as someone benefiting from someone else's misfortunes because that is just one way of looking at it. The reason cashing in on others peoples misfortunes is seen as such a bad thing is because it has been manipulated from the corruption of corporate profit and public control. The idea of cashing in on other people misfortunes was not always a bad thing, it was seen as a form of gratitude because the profit that you talk about now used to be a way for the people being treated for their misfortunes to say thank you. Pharmaceutical companies for example did not always treat the ill for the purpose of benefiting from other peoples misfortunes, they treated the ill for the purpose of helping the ill purely, the cash that they got was merely a thanks from the people that they treated. The question should not be how to prevent people from cashing in on other peoples misfortunes, but rather how to instill that idea of gratitude in the people making money from the help of misfortunate people

  • A comment on Conversation: Is reality merely a byproduct/offspring/construct of the, lucid, conscious mind?

    Jan 29 2012: Yes.

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