Sympathy, compassion, kindness, smiles, & love

So, positive alternatives are:
sympathy, compassion, kindness, smiles, & love.
Nice, but nebulous, indistinct, indefinite, unclear, vague, hazy, cloudy, fuzzy concepts until MEASURABLE.
__ Notice how the negative concepts are very much dealt with in a QUANTIFIABLE manner:
restitution for pain-&-suffering (hurt/pain),
anger-management,
contempt-of-court,
penalties for mental or physical cruelty, etc.,
while the positive alternatives are left fuzzy & up to individual interpretation.
__ Compare how often you hear news or conversation about the Peace-Corps vs. about various armed-conflicts.
Crime statistics are readily available for various cities & neighborhoods, but when was the last time you came across neighbor-helping-neighbor STATISTICS?
__ Perhaps it's time to start COUNTING & CHARTING how often in a day we ACTIVELY PRACTICE sympathy towards someone who is practicing anger toward us,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE compassion toward someone who is treating us with contempt,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE kindness toward someone who is being cruel toward us,
how often we ACTIVELY PRACTICE giving a genuine friendly smile to someone who is grimacing toward us hatefully.
__ How often in a day do we ACTUALLY let go & move on (“forgive & forget”)? How do you do it? Do you actually have a procedure, method, or manner of doing it?
__ How often in a day do you own-up to something done wrong instead of faulting another or standing-by quietly while someone else is faulted for your mess?
__ And what exactly does this overused cliché “love” even mean anymore? Unless it is QUANTIFIABLE, daily producing MEASURABLE constructive results, it means absolutely NOTHING.

Whatever is subsidized, just creates more of it

Whatever is subsidized, just creates more of it. Subsidizing beggars only encourages more people to become beggars, etc. Demonizing & penalizing the $ucce$$ful through over-taxation just causes them to move their operations elsewhere, and jobs & tax-base are lost. The "well-meaning" & good-sounding welfare system ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his need") has destroyed & continues to destroy individual ingenuity, motivation, work-ethic, & responsibility among all who have fallen into that mind-trap of expecting “entitlements” from “Orwellian IngSoc ’s Big-Brother”, e.g., Native-AmerIndians, South-StPete, etc., etc. “But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”― Walter E. Williams

Why Insult all Muslims?

1) There is absolutely NO excuse for extremist killings & ought-to be dealt with in like HARSH manner. 

2) People should neither choose to feel offended by what anyone says about their religion, nor purposefully offend any others. 

3) Be glad that only tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of Islamists are terrorists that suck & ought be dealt with, and that most of the 1.6 BILLION are not (that's 1,600 MILLION). What would be the point of insulting all 1.6 BILLION of them? Do you really want to unite 1.6 BILLION against the west which is anything but united? Much better to encourage the non-extremists to continue to try & reign-in their own extremists. --> http://www.freemuslims.org/

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Hold ea subset of society accountable to keep their own in check

To eliminate the growing “them-against-us” mentality, each subset of society ought-to be held accountable to keep their own in check, instead of one subset keeping another in check. After-all, who knows better what’s really transpiring within a group than that group itself?

Police have their Internal-Affairs which ought-to step-up their efforts to make the police more like Peace-Officers and less like militarized Law-ENFORCEMENT, wild-west gun-slingers.

The Black community has its organizations like the NAACP which ought to step-up their efforts to eliminate dropping-out-of-school, the 70% out-of-wedlock birth-rate, gang violence, riots & looting.

The Muslim community has its Free Muslims Coalition (http://www.FreeMuslims.org) which ought-to step up its efforts to eliminate the extremist jihad fervor among their own, and make sure all extremist acts are prevented. Potential prep for violence doesn’t happen in a total vacuum. People close-by have indications of what may be developing. “Moments before a gunman opened fire on a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn., a Twitter account associated with the Islamic State terror group reportedly sent out a chilling hint of what was about to happen.” Also, his family knew he was unstable and should have taken stronger measures to prevent his radicalization. Reign-in your own potential terrorists. If terrorism is tolerated to accomplish some objective, what kind of leaders & society will result from that terrorism? Would moderate members of such a society be safe? Will looking the other way ultimately result in you yourself being terrorized for not being extremist enough?

There are quite a few Hispanic organizations: (http://journals.dartmouth.edu/latinox/resource_center/academics4.shtml). Instead of crying “Racism” when someone points out statistical facts, they ought to work within their society to correct those stats. With a size of 17% of USA population, how is it that their size of gang-bangers is 44%? How is it that just in TX alone, 2008-2014 their illegal immigrants committed 611,000 crimes (incl thousands of murders & rapes)?

Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete

    Just being offended by war, poverty, injustice & greed will never solve anything but will in fact only prolong them -- will make war-against-them its own industrial complex:

    War on poverty,

    War on greed,

    War on injustice,

    War on war.

    “What you RESIST, PERSISTS”

    ― Carl Jung (1875–1961)

    “I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.”

    ― Mother Teresa

    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

    ― Buckminster Fuller

    “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,

not on fighting the old, but on BUILDING THE NEW.”

    ― Socrates (469–399 BCE)

    "Truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

    ― Max Planck

    All humans started out the SAME, as socioeconomically equal hunter-gatherer Bushmen in east Africa. Individual & family choices evolved some into the more-motivated & more-educated (greedy) and others into less-motivated & less-educated (poor). Then each polarized group accused the other of injustice & war-industrial-complex was born, which now (like it or not, directly or indirectly) provides livelihood for most humans; oh yes, even as many anti-war protesters. If Orwelian-1984 war-industrial-complex was suddenly dissolved, in a short time such depression, riots, looting, home-invasions, & eventually cannibalism would break out, the likes of which this planet has never seen. Anti-war protests are as humorous as anti-petroleum protests put on by people who drive cars, paddle plastic-kayaks, & whose majority of what they eat, wear, live in, medicate with, etc. comes from the petrol-industrial-complex.

    “Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

    ― Buckminster Fuller

    So STOP being offended by ANYTHING, even war, poverty, injustice & greed. Instead synergize-with (join with) like-minded people and build, build, BUILD a new model (profitable PIC = Peace-Industrial-Complex) that makes the existing model obsolete = www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9VexOP9PDg 

    "Inspired people can do much individually,

but can do more with like-minded people."

    ― Donald Watson (1910–2005; founder of Vegan Society)

    “If we really care, individually each of us can make a difference,

but collectively, we can change the world.”

    ― Character Huey Walker in 1990 movie Flashback

    “Peace will happen when

the PIC (PEACE-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX) OUT-COMPETES

the MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex) in profitability.”

    ― Vinnieosophy