• Tar_Alcaran
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    5 days ago

    I’m not a saint, I can be pretty selfish in my reasons for treating people well.

    I just want everyone taken care of because I want to live in a society that takes care of all the people. I want good education because I want to be around well educated people. I want healthcare for everyone because I want to be around active healthy people who live to old age. I want limits and regulations for companies because I want clean air and safe products.

    It’s not fucking rocket science.

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      5 days ago

      I moved out of the USA about 10 years ago. There are many reasons, both big and small. When people ask why, I’ve learned to boil it down to one overarching idea: I believe we should live in a society where the people are primarily treated as the definition of the society and not where the people are primarily treated as a resource belonging to the society.

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      Also, if society was fully comprised of well cared for and well educated people, wars and crimes would be an almost non-existent occurrence. Meaning, I’d be able to go to sleep every night without expecting to be woken up by an air raid warning.

      Pretty selfish of me, I know /s