How did we develop technology?
We learned by discovering the cause of things, one at a time!
We didn’t learn from history.
How then, do we learn what causes love? What causes hate and fighting?
Just like technology, we put aside our prejudices and focus on what is consistently true!
Let’s do that!
Let’s begin with love! What’s the situation when people love each other? What is always true wherever love exists?
Respect! Honesty! No control whatsoever! Free will! When we find love, these are always present!
Good examples are infancy, long-term loving partners, and all other life!
And what’s always true wherever hate is predominant?
Control of others! Lots of lies!
A good question might be “why are we still confused about this?”.
It’s been obvious since the beginning of life!
Peace and cooperation was the American dream. It’s failing because people are not clear about free will and peace.
People use force to solve every problem, refusing to see that their demands are excessive, and the cause of the conflict.
Control of others has become rampant! It never makes things better! It introduces hate and disagreement!
We have been trying to find peace through rules!
It’s very hard to argue against the need for rules. It seems so obvious that we need them!
We don’t though!
All our conflict comes from the rules we already made!
All the trouble is coming from the rule people, not the loving and accepting ones!
Loving people behave well because of their instincts. They can feel them and be guided by them.
Their instincts tell them they need the love of others above all else! Of course their behavior remains loving!
Unfortunately, loving people find it hard to stand up to angry people demanding their own brand of what they see as fairness!
Why does free will allow peace?
As always, this is all about cause and effect!
The critical pivot point is LIFE COMES FROM WITHIN!
Allow that to happen, and our own instincts cause natural morality!
Trust happens! Love happens!
Every person has an intact and fully functional inner world!
What happens though, when we don’t allow free will?
Trust cannot exist! Love cannot happen either without trust!
Life is trying to come from within, as it’s designed to!
Every identity is being prevented from exercising its own existence and natural rights.
Internal confusion and inner pain happen. Internal disconnection happens. Can any of us feel our instincts? Our feelings?
Natural morality has been extinguished!
Life has become a lonely “free-for-all” world.
Many democracies have drifted into this condition anyway, even with the best of intentions.
Those suffering from internal pain have driven the process.
In a world that doesn’t grasp the “cause and effect” of trust and love, the minority who suffer from excessive hurt have been allowed to take the rest of us into the darkness!
Most of us struggle with allowing free will. That’s because most people around us believe differently!
It doesn’t help that those who oppose free will are invariably the angriest, loudest, and the most violent of us.
It is difficult for a gentle loving person to confront these people!
That’s why love is usually hiding quietly in the background!
As with technology, we need a guidebook that clearly spells out what to expect from our actions.
We can take our time and get it right!
With enough evidence and experience, we could present a detailed map of the expected consequences of overpowering the free will of another.
We could challenge the beliefs of those who would take us into conflict and pain, making love and trust impossible!
With any luck, AI will be able to see this cause-and-effect balance more clearly than we have been able to.
We could study how much interference we can get away with before damage happens. We can revert to guidelines and abolish rules.
When a person ignores guidelines, that person has a trust problem. The use of force spreads that problem throughout the population.
It would be infinitely better to deal with that one person directly in a healthy way. The number of people ignoring guidelines would then steadily diminish.
Presently, we encourage ever-increasing numbers of people to give up cooperating.
People no longer trust the system! Sadly, they are quite right.
The system, as it is, will take away their identity and instincts!
Thanks for listening.
Good luck on your own journey!
This post is still in the process of creation.
As always, this is all about cause and effect!
The critical pivot point is LIFE COMES FROM WITHIN!
Allow that to happen, and our own instincts cause natural morality!
Trust happens! Love happens!
Every person has an intact and fully functional inner world!
What happens though, when we don’t allow free will?
Trust cannot exist! Love cannot happen either without trust!
Life is trying to come from within, as it’s designed to!
Every identity is being prevented from exercising its own existence and natural rights.
Internal confusion and inner pain happen. Internal disconnection happens. Can any of us feel our instincts? Our feelings?
Natural morality has been extinguished!
Life has become a lonely “free-for-all” world.
Many democracies have drifted into this condition anyway, even with the best of intentions.
Those suffering from internal pain have driven the process.
In a world that doesn’t grasp the “cause and effect” of trust and love, the minority who suffer from excessive hurt have been allowed to take the rest of us into the darkness!
Most of us struggle with allowing free will. That’s because most people around us believe differently!
It doesn’t help that those who oppose free will are invariably the angriest, loudest, and the most violent of us.
It is difficult for a gentle loving person to confront these people!
That’s why love is usually hiding quietly in the background!
As with technology, we need a guidebook that clearly spells out what to expect from our actions.
We can take our time and get it right!
With enough evidence and experience, we could present a detailed map of the expected consequences of overpowering the free will of another.
We could challenge the beliefs of those who would take us into conflict and pain, making love and trust impossible!
With any luck, AI will be able to see this cause-and-effect balance more clearly than we have been able to.
Thanks for listening.
Good luck on your own journey!
This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com It is still in the process of creation.
Take care,
Norm Cormier.
I welcome considering other thoughts.