Please sign this ‘people unite’
declaration, petition & pledge
(by filling in your name and email
address in the form just below),
& then please share it, if:
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– you agree it should be the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be the most effective), together with ensuring in the most effective ways (as they’re defined just above) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy, & so on; and you call for all people to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above), or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively do all of that, as much as is potentially possible (as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible), as soon as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible (and for as long as … possible), in the most effective ways…;
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– you call for all people (including all groups of people) to acknowledge and act on the possibility that (as so much evidence shows) the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, can (for many reasons) potentially be for all people (…) to live or behave in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people (or each other) in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above) as much as is potentially possible… (including through not benefiting any person, people or group/groups at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on) and forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible… in the most effective ways… (including through ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit (or well-being, happiness and fulfilment) for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways…; so you call for all people (including all groups of people) to therefore harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to live and behave in those ways or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways (…) to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or maximize benefit) for everyone (or each other)…, as much as is potentially possible… (or to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), taking into account that in order for benefit to be maximized for everyone in the most effective ways…, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways…, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product; and as part of that, because the purpose of the steps implicitly suggested in the rest of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to help bring about a situation in which all people (including all groups of people) can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, you call for all people (…) to possibly harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to collectively take those steps;
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– you call for all people to (as much as possible…, globally and locally) work together to empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible…) what those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are (and you call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) fully actualize their/our potentials for reflexivity, rationality, and critical, creative and holistic thinking in order to do that, alongside calling for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) seek out, be open to, and critically/rationally examine/question all the evidence (including evidence about social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice, and side effects of actions or behaviours) that’s necessary for doing that (collectively verifying, as described above, how necessary different evidence is for doing that in different situations, as well as verifying the evidence itself as described above, and checking for bias, & so on), and to subsequently collectively take into account all the evidence that can be verified (as described above) to be necessary to take into account in order to do that, & so on);
– you (obviously following on from or linked with that) call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (or collectively) take the amounts and kinds of action which all people (as much as possible…) can collectively verify (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively implement (as well as find, as described above) those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);
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– you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people (or each other) have autonomy to verify empirically and rationally (as far as possible) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, in their/our own (local) situations, are, as well as what the most effective ways of implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that…, in their/our own (local) situations, are (together with autonomy to collectively implement those most effective ways of doing all of that…, & so on), insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do the same, and insofar as all people are also uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (again as far as possible) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other globally…, or to collectively make all of that the priority of human society… (acknowledging and acting on how, by definition, in order for ways of doing all of that… to be those most effective ways of doing all of that… in any situations, those ways need to be ones which don’t cause any suffering and injustice to any other person, people or group(s) even indirectly, or which don’t obstruct anyone else (even indirectly) from living or behaving in ways that consist in maximizing benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) in the most effective ways…, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on);
– you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people (or each other) have enough power and resources to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for all people to collectively and autonomously find and implement those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), as much as it’s potentially possible for them/us to, or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for them/us to (insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do all of that… (or even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else) ,& so on), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;
– you call for all people to use or manage all the power and resources (as well as all the intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, time and energy, etc) which they/we have, in ways which can be verified (as described above) to be the most effective ways (…) to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (again as well as collectively ensure that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy), both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, again including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;
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– you call for all people, and in particular all people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any (controllable) influences which (can be verified, as described above, to) have the most influence on the most people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness (including mass media and mass education systems), to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, & so on;
– you (partly to ensure… all people have that freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else…), also call for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences) to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (i.e. ensure… that all people… are motivated enough (to collectively do all of that…) for all people to actually collectively do all of that…), possibly including by collectively exposing and publicizing to a sufficient extent to all people or each other (or collectively ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people or each other have enough consciousness of) things such as:
• how much suffering and injustice can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring (including political, economic and ideological structuring) of human society globally, and how that suffering and injustice is (or can be verified (as described above) to be) caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current structuring;
• how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all that suffering and injustice (which can be verified (as described above) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring of human society), in order to maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (or which rely on premises that can’t be proven); or how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice in the world, and collectively change the current social structuring of human society to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (…);
• how living or behaving in ways which consist in uniting in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (or in order for humankind to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), can obviously potentially be the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves or each other, as again so much evidence also shows (and how doing all of that… is also conducive to ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else);
• which social structures, systems and behaviours (within the current overall social structuring of human society) can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (primarily which social structures, systems and behaviours can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice), as well as how those social structures, systems and behaviours even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice, or can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize all that to a sufficient extent, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);
• which social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice which humankind needs to overcome and eliminate in order for humankind to be able to collectively fight all the other different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (and maximize benefit for everyone or each other) in the most effective ways…, or in order for humankind to be able to collectively overcome and eliminate as much suffering and injustice as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible to (and maximize benefit for everyone as much as is potentially possible…) in the most effective ways… (again with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize to a sufficient extent which causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be causes of suffering and injustice of that particular type, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);
• how so much worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (following the extinction of possibly over a million of other species), will, according to peer-reviewed science, be caused by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society due to how they are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, as well as how quickly that far worse human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction) will be caused, unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough (or how little time people have left to overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours to save those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), again all according to peer-reviewed science;
• which social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society will, according to peer-reviewed science, cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough), as well as how much suffering and injustice those social structures, systems and behaviours are causing already (and have caused) in many areas of the world (along with how those social structures, systems and behaviours will cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate them fast enough), and how they are already causing all the suffering and injustice they are already causing), again all according to peer-reviewed science;
• the amounts and kinds of action and thought which it’s (or which it can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (as much as possible…) to be) necessary for humankind to collectively take in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (again including ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…) as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible… (or in order for humankind to make all of that the priority of human society…);
• ways which any people in any of the different situations in the world can verify (as described above) to be the most effective ways (according to how they’re defined, and later elaborated on, above) to fight causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) and to maximize benefit for everyone or each other, in situations they/we are in (again without even indirectly causing any suffering and injustice to any (other) people, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes suffering and injustice to any (other) people, & so on); while again still ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy (to verify (as described above) if those ways are also the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, if those ways need to be adapted for their/our own (local) situations, or if other ways… are the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, & so on) insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy (to do the same)…, and insofar as all people are uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other) globally… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);
• how many (other) people agree it should be the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, how many (other) people call for all people to unite in diversity to do all of that…, and how many (other) pledge to do as much as is potentially possible to do all of that…;
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– you (again partly also to ensure… all people have that freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences mentioned above (including mass media and mass education systems), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else) also call for all people, and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences, to collectively make (in the most effective ways…) enough space(s) for all people to be able to (and social environments which enable all people to) collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on;
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– you pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order for you to contribute to fighting the suffering and injustice in the world and maximizing benefit for people/humankind (including by contributing to ensuring that the ecosystems and environments which humankind cannot survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed) in the most effective ways (…) as much as it’s potentially possible for you to (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for you to)…;
– you (linking with that) pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for you to contribute in the most effective ways (…), as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for you to contribute, to making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways…;
– you call for all people to also take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for them/us to do all that as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for them/us to…, together with you and all other people;
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– you (partly as this ‘people unite’ declaration, pledge and petition is obviously far from perfect)call for all people to collectively find and implement the/those most effective ways (…) to call for all people or each other to unite in diversity to collectively make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways, together with ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…
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WHY?
There are obviously many problems with this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and it obviously has many limitations (some of those problems and limitations possibly being a lot more obvious than others), but for some explanation of some of the ideas behind this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and for some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for efforts to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, and make all of that the priority of human society… (or for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…), please see the text on the pages titled ‘some explanation’ and ‘is this too vague?’ on this site (the buttons to click on for those pages are in the top-right corner of this page). And if you want more explanation of ideas behind this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge than there is on those pages, and a bit more of an outline of some more of the reasons why something like it could be useful for efforts to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, as well as a bit of background behind this, please see the text on the page titled ‘some more explanation’ (again the button to click on for that page is in the top-right corner of this page), though the text on that ‘some more explanation’ page is still just an outline of just some of the ideas behind this and still doesn’t go into that much detail in explaining ideas behind it (and doesn’t go into all the ideas behind it or all the reasons why something like it could be useful for efforts to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…). (And some of the problems with this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (and some of its limitations) will be covered separately).
If you have questions, comments, criticisms, or ideas for ways which could be more effective and faster in bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (which take into account and deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), please email peopleunite@peopleunite.net . If there are more effective and faster ways of bringing about a situation like that, then this will obviously support those ways more than or instead of this declaration, petition and pledge.
PLEASE LET’S MAKE IT THE PRIORITY OF HUMAN SOCIETY TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED (INCLUDING YOURSELF?), SAVE LIVES, FIGHT (ALL THE CAUSES OF) SUFFERING & INJUSTICE, & MAXIMISE WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS & FULFILMENT FOR EVERYONE, IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS, & IT’LL HELP YOU IN SO MANY WAYS…
PEOPLE UNITE IN DIVERSITY…
Thank you very much.
All the very best,
peopleunite@peopleunite.net .
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