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These simply color-coded badges would declare the moral and
philosophical foundation by which one lives. A website would be available
for lookup and/or they could have small lettering or symbols with the
color's
meaning. Worn by enough people it would:
-Help people
understand one-another
in political debate
-Provide immediate non-
trivial conversation to replace small talk.
-Allow society to converge
on
the most well supported and useful philosophies.
We been there already...
Geek_20Code_20Matchmaker
[normzone, Aug 21 2014]
An earlier revision
http://history1900s...st/a/yellowstar.htm
[RayfordSteele, Aug 21 2014]
[link]
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Is this like "stand your ground" but without the gunfire? |
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NB, might work better as QR codes. |
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I don't think this would change society in a desireable direction. Too easily leads to people wearing Stars of David, scarlet letters, and the like. No website would be required. Do Crips members need to look up graffiti styles to understand Blood territory? |
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I don't think this idea solves the problems posed. |
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Take a random survey of people who wear crosses, etc, on a necklace or whatever. I'm sure you'd get answers as diverse as: |
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- I'm a Christian and let me tell you about the Bible! |
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- I like the way it looks |
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Same would happen with this colour system. |
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//the moral and philosophical foundation by which one lives.// |
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So only a handfull of people would wear this? |
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It is easy to find people that advocate a moral, philosophical, or religious foundation but virtually impossible to find people that actually live by them. |
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On a voluntary basis, better self-identification makes great sense. But to paraphrase Groucho Marx, no one wants to be put into the same box that would take them. Most blogs have blinkered every byte without recharging their basic profile pages. |
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So what the meaning of Moshe Dayan's? |
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