It’s probably best to read all the text on the ‘home’ page of this site, and all the text on the page titled ‘is this too vague?’, before reading the text below, as, while some of the text on those pages is repeated on this page, the text on those other pages hopefully gives a broad outline of some main reasons for this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (and the pieces of text on those pages are much shorter than the text on this page).  But if you want more explanation and background about this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge than there is on those pages, the text below hopefully gives a bit more of an outline of some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful (or could be a useful step) for fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society), though it’s still just an outline of the ideas behind this and doesn’t go into that much detail in explaining all the ideas behind it.  There are obviously many problems with this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge too (some being more obvious than others), and it obviously has many limitations, and some of the problems with it and some of its limitations will be covered separately.  Obviously so many different forms of action are needed in order to get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and one of the purposes of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to support and encourage all action to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways*, but a main purpose of this is obviously to also help make more space for more action to do that (and all action to do that), or to help ensure that all of human society is primarily devoted to doing that (or to help make it the priority of human society to do that); again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously isn’t a perfect idea or an end in itself, but is just a means to contribute to that aim of making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and is a means to contribute to the aim of addressing, overcoming and eliminating problems with or in the current structuring of human society (including those mentioned on the pages of this site) which prevent enough from being done to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or which get in the way of action to do that), and which cause so much suffering and injustice in so many (other) ways*; and if there more effective ways of addressing, overcoming and eliminating those problems with or in the current structuring (which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice in so many ways), or of making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, then this would obviously support those ways more than this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; if there are ways which can definitely address, overcome and eliminate those problems with or in the current structuring, and which can definitely make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, then this would obviously support those ways instead of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge. There are obviously so many specific causes of suffering and injustice which it’s so important to mention specifically (including causes of suffering and injustice which need to be addressed in order for other causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways) in so many contexts, but for various reasons, the text on this website doesn’t mention so many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice (which it’s so important to mention specifically in so many contexts), but obviously just refers to all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in general (by just using the phrase ‘all the different causes of suffering and injustice’); one of those reasons why so many specific causes of suffering and injustice aren’t mentioned specifically on this site is that so many people within the current structuring of human society are manipulated, misled or coerced (in many ways**) into believing the lies that some action to fight many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice is a threat to them, or will cause suffering and injustice to them**; and sometimes even mentioning many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in some contexts (as well as taking some types of action to eliminate those) can divide people and set people against each other in competition; so sometimes, in some contexts, even mentioning those particular causes of suffering and injustice (as well as taking some types of action to address those) can actually exacerbate those causes of suffering and injustice; and in order to fight causes of suffering and injustice like those in the most effective ways, it could possibly be useful in something like this to try and deal with the underlying problems with or in the current structuring which cause people to see action to fight those particular causes of suffering and injustice (or sometimes even any mention of those) as a threat to them (or which cause people to be divided and set against each other in competition by even any mention of those particular causes of suffering and injustice in some contexts, as well as by some action to eliminate those), and which also cause and allow those particular causes of suffering and injustice to start with (as well as causing and allowing so much other suffering and injustice in many other ways), before mentioning causes of suffering and injustice like those specifically (in something like this) for the moment (and again hopefully the text on this website outlines some of the ways in which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for dealing with underlying problems like those, though, again, if there are more effective ways of dealing with underlying problems like those, this would support those ways; and again this obviously supports all the different forms of action that are necessary to deal with those underlying problems in the most effective ways).  No one should feel threatened by this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, as its purpose is obviously to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… .  And again part of the purpose of this is to make more space for people to draw enough attention to all of those different causes of suffering and injustice specifically (in far better ways than can be done here for many reasons), to make more space for more action to fight all of those different causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways (and all action to do that), or to help ensure that all of human society is primarily devoted to doing that (or to help make it the priority of human society to do that), in ways which don’t divide people and set people against each other in competition… .  And because there’s obviously such a massive number of different specific causes of suffering and injustice (which can be articulated in so many different ways) which it’s so important to mention specifically in so many contexts, it’s possibly not useful to try and mention all of them specifically in all the necessary detail (and all the ways they can be articulated) in something like this, or it’s possibly better to again just refer to all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in general in something like this (by just using the phrase ‘all the different causes of suffering and injustice’).  And again, underlying problems in the current structuring like those which this aims to contribute to eliminating, possibly at least instrumentally cause, allow or exacerbate all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice*, and prevent enough from being done to fight causes of suffering and injustice like those*; and in order to fight all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, it’s possibly necessary to eliminate those underlying problems in the current structuring*. It could be good to also bring up here near the beginning of this page that the main reason why there are no references or bibliographies on the pages of this site, where certain facts are mentioned, and where, in certain customs or conventions, it might be expected that there would be references and bibliographies, is that those facts (mentioned on the pages of this site) can be verified in or by so many different sources in peer-reviewed science, that it would be ridiculous to try and list all of those sources; and it could be misleading to just write just a few (or even just one) of those sources, as that could imply that those few sources are the only sources (or that that one source is the only source) which those facts can be verified in or by; while those facts (mentioned on pages of this site) are not publicised or exposed anywhere near enough within the current structuring of society, it’s still fairly easy to find sources which those facts can be verified in or by, if you search, for example, in the work of different scientific organisations and charities or NGOs who work in the relevant areas (as long as that work is peer-reviewed); and part of the purpose of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to ensure that people or groups who have the most control over any (controllable) influences (which have the most influence on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness) publicise and expose facts like those enough, and publicise and expose enough how those facts can be verified in or by so many sources in peer-reviewed science. And for various reasons, some of the sentences on the pages of this site (particularly in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge itself) possibly might be fairly long and convoluted, but while some grammatical rules might be stretched in some of those sentences (and some grammatical rules might be used slightly creatively and flexibly in some of them), grammatical rules aren’t completely broken in them; and those sentences obviously aren’t impossible to understand when thinking about them with grammatical logic, or when applying grammatical logic and rules to understanding them, and so on. Also for various reasons, this website deliberately isn’t flashy, isn’t meant to be like so much advertising, or isn’t meant to manipulatively draw people in, etc. Nearly all the text on this website needs a lot of editing and is unfinished (for reasons which are mentioned near the end of this page, in the section in slightly smaller writing), but hopefully it still gives enough of an outline of some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful (or could be a useful step) for fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society), and hopefully the gist of it is clear enough.  If you read any of this and find mistakes or inconsistencies, etc, please get in touch to say what they are. What’s written on this site obviously massively simplifies a lot of the issues that are written about here, but it’s still applicable to those issues. And all that’s written on the pages of this site is fairly obvious, but it’s also fairly obvious that, within the current structuring of human society, what’s written on the pages of this site isn’t acknowledged and acted on enough.

        If you agree that generally massive amounts more need to be done to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including any which you face) in the most effective ways, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (including you) in the most effective ways, you should hopefully support this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; if you agree that generally massive amounts more need to be done to do all of that, you should hopefully agree it should be the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, in the most effective ways, or to ensure all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy, and you should hopefully call for all people to unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society (and you should hopefully call for all the rest of what’s written in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, which is just aimed at all of that).  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously supports and encourages all action to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, but as long as only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world are able (for different reasons**) to do enough to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (and the underlying social (including ideological, political and economic) structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) in the most effective ways, or to maximise benefit for humankind in the most effective ways, we’re:

   – obviously never going to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world, or in maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone;

   – probably never going to be able to end such massive causes of human suffering and injustice as poverty, war or ecocide;

   – probably never going to be able to do enough to help or save people suffering from many illnesses and diseases, or to do enough to cure or prevent many illnesses and diseases;

   – probably not going to be able to prevent the even worse amounts of human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of up to over a million other species) which, according to peer-reviewed science, will caused by certain behaviours within the current structuring of human society that are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (unless we can change those behaviours fast enough…);

   – probably never going to be able to do enough to stop people from harming each other in micro-level interpersonal or social interaction and relationships (as well as on macro levels, though global structural and systemic processes, etc).

And obviously interlinked with that, is how as long as only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, we’re never going to get far enough.

Or, until we make it the absolute priority and primary aim of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, we’ll never get far enough.

        So many people obviously do and give so much for the good of other people, humankind and the world, but within the current political, ideological and economic structuring of human society, obviously only such comparatively small numbers of people are able to make enough of their energy, time, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill and talent (etc) available to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (for themselves, each other and everyone) or to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, including themselves (or each other), in the most effective ways; and it’s obviously linked with that that obviously only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available within this current structuring to be used to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways.  All the arguments that that is the only way that human society can be structured (that human society needs to be structured like that, in the way it is currently), or that human society can’t be changed from being like that, are all arguments which can’t be proven or which rely on premises which can’t be proven.  Or all the arguments that those ways in which many humans behave now within the current structuring, which perpetuate, cause and allow that situation, are the only ways people can behave, are all arguments which can’t be proven or which all rely on premises which can’t be proven.  And there is far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to confirm them.

        Though the forms of action to fight suffering and injustice and to help people in need (or ways of fighting suffering and injustice), which are publicised and promoted most (or made most accessible) within the current structuring of human society, have been effective in some areas and ways according to some criteria, there are obviously still obscene amounts of suffering and injustice in the world which those forms of action have not addressed (and are not addressing) effectively at all, or effectively enough; those forms of action: – obviously don’t effectively address or change the situation in the current structuring of human society in which only such comparatively small numbers of people are able to do enough to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to do that as well; – obviously don’t effectively stop other people from behaving and living in ways which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice, or effectively address or change other aspects of the current structuring (or particular systems, structures and behaviours (or ways of thinking, behaving and relating to people and the world) within the current overall structuring of human society) which cause so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways, and which obviously need to be overcome in order to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice and in maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways)…; – obviously aren’t sufficient on their own to fight the current obscene amounts of suffering and injustice in the world, let alone the even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice that will caused by the behaviours within the current structuring which, for example, are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments that humankind can’t survive without, unless far more effective action is taken to change those behaviours…; and those conventional forms of action obviously probably aren’t sufficient on their own to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice that will be caused unless far more effective action is taken to change those behaviours… .

       There’s obviously so much evidence (for example, in the field of positive psychology and different areas of the social sciences, etc, and there’s obviously way too much to provide references for all it) to show that consuming or possessing much more resources than you need in order to survive doesn’t bring you well-being, happiness and fulfilment anywhere nearly as effectively as living and behaving in certain other ways (referred to in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and outlined further on), which don’t require consuming much more than you need in order to survive (and that consuming or possessing more resources than you need in order to survive doesn’t bring you well-being, happiness and fulfilment effectively at all).  And peer-reviewed science also shows there are enough resources accumulated in human society to provide for everyone’s needs (and that goes for an even bigger human population than there is now), if all people just consume the amounts which they need in order to survive.

For so many people within the current structuring of human society, obviously the situation is that, no matter how hard they work, or how intelligent, ingenious, skilled, talented or virtuous (etc) they are, they are still denied access to the resources which they can’t survive without, and are denied access to life (in this way as well as obviously in so many other ways).

In order to just try to survive and provide for themselves and their families or communities within the current structuring of human society, so many people, to varying extents, are obviously forced to spend so much more energy and time than would be necessary in other possible structurings, on doing types of work or jobs which:

   – have practically nothing to do with fighting the suffering and injustice in the world in the most effective ways, or with maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and aren’t at all even necessary for humankind’s survival, let alone humankind’s well-being, happiness or fulfilment (or wouldn’t be in other possible structurings);

   – don’t bring well-being, happiness or fulfilment effectively enough, if at all, to themselves, or to others or each other; and most of these types of work or jobs.

   – don’t even provide effective enough ways for people to fight suffering and injustice for themselves, as well as others or each other (suffering and injustice which they are facing themselves, as well as that which others face); obviously for so many people these types of work or jobs which so many people are forced to do in order to try and survive don’t even provide a means to survive at all.

And the ways which are promoted most and which are made available most within the current structuring for people to try and find well-being, happiness and fulfilment outside of these types of work or jobs (as well as within them), also don’t enable people to bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment effectively enough (or effectively at all), for themselves or other people and each other, and also usually have practically nothing to do with fighting suffering and injustice in the most effective ways.

And obviously so many people are forced to spend so much of their time and energy doing those types of work or jobs, which don’t bring them well-being, happiness or fulfilment effectively if at all (or which can be actively harmful to them) that they hardly have time or energy (if any at all) to try and find well-being, happiness and fulfilment outside of them, for themselves, others or each other.  And again for so many people, no matter how much time and energy they spend on doing these types of work or jobs which they are forced to do in order to try and survive (and no matter how intelligent, ingenious, skilled, talented or virtuous (etc) they are), they are still denied access to the resources which they can’t survive without.

And even if people want to be able to do more to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to benefit other people, so many people are forced to spend so much of their time and energy on these types of work or jobs in order to try and survive, that they don’t have enough time and energy left (if any at all) to take enough action to fight the suffering and injustice in the world or to benefit other people in the most effective ways.

These ways of living and behaving in general (within and outside of those types of work or jobs, in nearly all aspects or areas of so many people’s lives) which are most promoted and made most available within the current structuring (and which so many people are forced, to varying degrees, to partake in or take up in order to try and survive within this structuring, or which so many people are misled or coerced into thinking will bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment effectively, when they won’t) don’t enable people to fight suffering and injustice for themselves, others or each other (the suffering and injustice which they face themselves or which others face), in the most effective ways, as well as not enabling people to maximise well-being, happiness or fulfilment for themselves, others or each other in the most effective ways (and again for so many people don’t even provide a way to survive).

        Many of the main means which are promoted most and made most available for people to use in order to find well-being, happiness and fulfilment within the current structuring, entail or consist in consuming, expending, accumulating and possessing more resources than people need to survive, but again there’s so much evidence to show that consuming, expending, accumulating and possessing more resources than you need to survive or to provide for your basic human needs (or consuming or possessing these unnecessary/excess amounts and types of resources) doesn’t effectively increase levels of well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people doing this effectively at all; obviously people need a certain amount of resources to survive and to provide for their basic human needs, but this consuming or possessing more resources than are necessary for this, doesn’t increase well-being, happiness or fulfilment to the self anywhere nearly as effectively as certain other behaviours (outlined further on).  Yet within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that consuming, expending, accumulating and possessing more resources than people need to survive are the most effective ways of benefiting the self, when so much evidence shows they are not.

And the types of work of jobs which so many people are forced to varying degrees to do in order to try and survive within the current structuring (which don’t effectively bring benefit to people doing them, don’t fight suffering and injustice effectively, and aren’t necessary for human survival or human well-being, happiness and fulfilment), also obviously entail or consist in consuming and expending more resources than people need to survive or to maximise benefit for themselves (or unnecessary amounts and types of resources), or in promoting and increasing manufactured demand for them, etc; these types of work or jobs drive, propel or perpetuate other processes and behaviours (as well as structures and systems) which also entail or consist in consuming, expending, accumulating and possessing unnecessary amounts and types of resources.

(Or the ways of living and behaving which are most promoted and made most available within the current structuring (and which so many people are forced to varying degrees to take up in order to try and survive within this structuring, or which so many people are misled or coerced into believing will benefit them effectively, when they won’t) entail or consist in consuming and expending more resources than people need to survive or to maximise benefit for themselves, or unnecessary amounts and types of resources).

        As well as how so many people within the current structuring of society are misled or coerced into believing that consuming, expending, accumulating and possessing those unnecessary or excess amounts and types of resources (or living or behaving in ways which entail or consist in those things) are effective ways to benefit themselves (when so much evidence shows they aren’t), so many people are misled or coerced into believing it’s totally normal, unavoidable, and necessary to do those things, or that the worst those things can be is harmless or merely neutral in terms of any positive or negative effects (though again so many people are misled or coerced into believing those things have mainly or exclusively has positive effects); so many people (including so many people who consume, expend, accumulate and possess those unnecessary amounts and types of resources) are not informed enough, if at all, about (or are diverted or distracted from) how:

    – it can obviously be empirically and rationally verified that that consumption, expenditure, accumulation and possession of those unnecessary or excess amounts and types of resources by many people in many parts of the world (which they are misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing will effectively benefit them, when it won’t), causes (and is only possible as a consequence of) the carrying out of processes (and the perpetuation and continued imposition of systems and structurings) which entail or consist in (through direct physical processes or through more complex economic processes) extracting, taking or stealing, as well as poisoning or destroying, the finite resources that other people in other parts of the world can’t survive without now (as well as that those processes (etc) at least instrumentally harm people in so other ways);

   – peer-reviewed science obviously shows that that consumption, expenditure, accumulation and possession of those unnecessary or excess amounts and types of resources (by many people in many parts of the world) causes (and is only possible as a result of) the carrying out of processes (and the perpetuation and continued imposition of systems and structurings) which extract so much so quickly from the finite environments and ecosystems which humankind (all over the world) can’t survive without, and produce so much waste so quickly in ways which pollute and poison (so much so quickly) those finite ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (and cause so much other damage in other ways so quickly), that they are irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (or, for example, which people can’t grow or produce enough food without);

   – peer-reviewed science shows that that ecocide (or that irreversible destruction of the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), which results from that harmful/deadly consumption (and the harmful/deadly processes linked to it), is obviously already causing so much suffering and injustice to so many people in so many parts of the world now, and is already killing so many people in those parts of the world, and that those people (who it is already causing the most harm and death amongst), are generally people who consume the least or who have done the least to cause that ecocide,

   – peer-reviewed science shows that if that harmful/deadly consumption, and those harmful/deadly processes linked to it, continue at anywhere near its current rate (which does not allow those ecosystems and environments time to recover, replenish and flourish again), it will obviously cause so much worse human suffering and injustice for pretty much all people in future generations, or even cause human extinction, following the extinction of as many as millions of other species (many of which humankind can’t survive without), or that it will very soon become too late to prevent the deaths of millions and even billions of people (or all people, as well as the death of so much other life on Earth), unless we can stop that consumption of unnecessary amounts and types of resources (and change the behaviours, processes, structures and systems which cause it) quickly enough;

   – that peer-reviewed science shows that, while that ecocide (resulting from that harmful/deadly consumption, and those harmful/deadly processes linked to it) will cause far worse human suffering and injustice all over the world, or even cause human extinction, it will cause the most harm and and the most death most quickly amongst people who consume the least or who’ve done the least to cause that ecocide, and who it is already causing the most harm and death amongst (or that it will get far worse far more quickly for those people), unless we can stop that consumption of those unnecessary amounts and types of resources (and change the behaviours, processes, structures and systems which cause it) quickly enough…;

   – the scientific consensus is that we have very little time left to save those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, or to prevent ecological tipping points from being crossed over (though there are too many ‘chaotically’ interacting variables to be that specific in terms of time).

But again peer-reviewed science also shows that there are enough resources accumulated in human society to provide for everyone’s needs (and that goes for an even bigger human population than there is now), if all people just consume the amounts which they need in order to survive (and these amounts are therefore also sufficient for all people to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively).  But it’s obviously partly because many people have been misled or coerced into believing that consuming or possessing more resources than they need to survive is the most effective way for them to benefit themselves (which it isn’t…), and also partly because many people have as a result of that taken or accumulated (control over) and destroyed so many of the world’s finite resources, and are continuing to do so, using harmful processes like those, that no matter how hard so many people work within the current structuring, and no matter how intelligent, skilled, talented or virtuous (etc) they are:

   – so many people are obviously still denied access to these resources they can’t survive without, and are denied access to survival and life, and for many, the only way they can try and get the resources they need in order to survive is through spending their time and energy doing those types of work and jobs which are often harmful to them and others;

   – so many people are forced, to varying degrees, to use unnecessary amounts of their time and energy on those types of work or jobs (which wouldn’t be necessary in other possible structurings) which don’t benefit them or others effectively (or can be harmful to them and others in many ways), in order for them to try and get the resources they need in order to survive (and if they have the privilege to, to try and also accumulate and consume more resources than they need in order to survive because they too are misled or coerced into believing this will benefit them effectively when it won’t);

   – for so many people, even if they are allowed access to sufficient resources to survive, because they are forced to use so much of their time and energy on those types of work or jobs to try to obtain these, they don’t have time and energy to do enough (if any) of what they need to do in order to try and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves (or others).

In ways like those within the current structuring, so many people’s self-determination and autonomy (even insofar as it doesn’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) is taken away, and situations or ways of living and behaving are imposed on people which prevent them from being able to do what they need to do to survive (holistically or at all), which prevent people from being able to do what they need to do to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves (or others) in ways which don’t harm others, or which force people to do things which are harmful to themselves (or others) just to try to get resources they need in order to survive.

        So those main ways of living and behaving (which include those types of work or jobs, and ways people try to benefit themselves outside of those too) which so many people have to partake in within the current structuring of human society in order to try and survive and benefit themselves, not only do hardly anything effective to fight the suffering and injustice (and allow it to continue), but also, in entailing and consisting in to varying extents the consumption, expenditure, accumulation or possession these unnecessary or excess amounts and types of resources, and in subsequently perpetuating and driving harmful processes, behaviours, structurings and systems like those outlined above, therefore also at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice for others, in those ways and other ways, as well as preventing people from maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves and others (those ways of living and behaving also obviously at least instrumentally cause so much harm in other ways too, as is touched on later).  So within this current structuring, as well as how so many people want to be able to do more to fight suffering and injustice and to benefit others but don’t have enough time and energy to (because they are forced to spend so much of their time and energy on those types of work or jobs in order to survive), so many people are also forced to at least instrumentally harm so many other people (even if they don’t intrinsically intend to cause any harm, or aren’t even aware of this harm), because they are forced to do those types of work or jobs which drive, fuel or perpetuate harmful processes like those, just to try and survive.  And so many people within the current structuring of human society are misled and coerced into believing that the massive harmful inequalities, hierarchies and exploitative and oppressive relationships (or sets of relationships and structures), which are created, perpetuated and exacerbated by processes and behaviours like those (whether they are aware of how harmful they are or not), have to be maintained in order for them to benefit themselves most effectively, when so much evidence shows all of that doesn’t benefit them effectively at all; people are misled and coerced as well into believing that causing, perpetuating or exacerbating so many other forms of inequalities, hierarchies and exploitative and oppressive relationships, will bring them benefit effectively, when it won’t.

        The current social (including ideological, economic and political) structuring of human society (which also includes processes, behaviours and systems like those), misleads or coerces people (in many disguised or concealed ways as well as more overt ways) into believing that in order to benefit themselves most effectively, they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm and compete with other people in so many other ways too (also in many disguised or concealed ways as well as overt ways), on macro or micro levels, in personal and social interaction and relationships as well as through global economic, political and other social structures, processes, behaviours and systems including those (or themselves), both in their close vicinity and in other parts of the world, through ways of living and behaving within this structuring like those; it misleads or coerces people into believing that for some people to be benefited, other people need to be harmed, and so within this current structuring, while there are so many people who do and give so much to benefit other people, humankind and the world, so many people do behave in ways which at least instrumentally harm others (as well as themselves) even if they don’t intrinsically intend to or want to (or in ways which don’t benefit or bring happiness and fulfilment for themselves or others effectively enough); it misleads or coerces people into believing the lies that perpetuating and reproducing these harmful behaviours, structures and systems, is what is most beneficial to themselves.

But there’s so much research and evidence which shows that many of the most effective ways for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves, can be for people to develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, to benefit other people and each other, and to fight the suffering and injustice in the world, or for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people and each other; people obviously derive so much well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) within themselves from benefiting other people; and benefiting others can also obviously encourage and cause other people to reproduce and reciprocate this beneficial behaviour back to you and others, etc; so people can obviously therefore potentially harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to benefit others and fight suffering and injustice (though if benefit is to be maximised most effectively, people should possibly always take action to benefit others primarily because it benefits others, not because it benefits themselves, and any benefit to themselves should possibly only be intended to be a secondary side effect).  It could help people get far further in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice if people can acknowledge and act on this evidence so that they can harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to fight the suffering and injustice and to benefit other people, or each other (as well as consequently themselves).  As benefiting others benefits the self (as so much evidence shows), it follows that to certain extents, the more effectively people benefit others, the more effectively they benefit themselves, etc, so that fighting the suffering and injustice and maximising benefit for others, in the most effective ways, can be the most effective way for people to maximise benefit for themselves (or is a more effective way for people to benefit themselves than fighting suffering and injustice in less effective ways, etc; obviously in order for people to maintain their potential and ability to benefit other people in the long term as well as short term, they need to benefit themselves enough to keep themselves alive, etc, but it’s obviously possible for people to prioritise mutually benefiting others and each other as the primary means to maximise benefit for themselves or each other, etc).  So that people can again harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves and each other to find the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves), and therefore to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways.

As well as how there’s so much research and evidence which shows that consuming unnecessary amounts and types of resources, or behaving in other at least instrumentally harmful ways like those (which are the main means made available for people to use to try and benefit themselves within this current structuring), doesn’t bring well-being, happiness or fulfilment effectively at all, or effectively enough, to people engaging in those behaviours (or other people obviously), so much research and evidence shows that behaving in those at least instrumentally harmful ways doesn’t benefit people doing that anywhere nearly as effectively as behaving in ways which benefit other people, develop better human relationships, communities and solidarity, or fight the suffering and injustice in the world, in the most effective ways; again while people obviously need a certain amount of resources for themselves in order to survive and to provide for basic human needs (and to maintain their ability and potential to benefit others and each other (including themselves) most effectively), devoting time and energy (and resources) to accumulating or consuming more resources than are needed to provide for these needs, or to any other at least instrumentally harmful behaviours, obviously also gets in the way of people living and behaving in ways which would benefit them far more effectively, i.e. in ways which fight suffering and injustice and benefit others in the most effective ways; if people devote time and energy (and resources) to those harmful ways of living and behaving, they obviously can’t use that time and energy (and those resources) to live and behave in ways which would bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment far more effectively, i.e. in ways which fight the suffering and injustice and benefit others in the most effective ways; in many ways the current structuring therefore limits how much people can benefit themselves, or how much well-being, happiness and fulfilment people can have or attain, in comparison to how much people would be able to in other possible structurings (even when they have enough resources to survive and to therefore maximise their well-being happiness and fulfilment).  Living and behaving in those harmful ways is harmful to themselves as well as others, preventing them from fighting any suffering and injustice which they themselves face (or any lack of well-being, happiness and fulfilment which they themselves face) in the most effective ways, as well as that which others face; in many ways the current structuring limits how benefited even people with the most resources can become, including in how it misleads or coerces them into behaving and living in ways which at least instrumentally cause so much harm to others in other ways.

        Even though there is a finite and limited amount of the resources which humans can’t survive without in the world (which are currently being irreversibly destroyed by harmful processes, systems, structures and behaviours like those), again if people just consume the amounts that are necessary to provide for their needs (and that are therefore also enough to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively), there are enough resources accumulated in human society to provide for everyone’s needs (and there are therefore enough resources for everyone to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively), and that goes for an even bigger human population than there is now, so there’s not even a need for people to compete with each other for resources (or anything else) in order to survive or to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways (and again competing in ways like those can be less effective in bringing benefit to the self than benefiting others in many other ways too, as well as getting in the way of or displacing that mutually beneficial behaviour).  Even if people are being motivated solely by egoism, selfishness, or drives for their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment:

   – there’s absolutely no need for people to compete with or harm others in order to benefit themselves in the most effective ways (or there’s absolutely no need for some people to be harmed in order for other people to be benefited in the most effective ways),

   – there’s absolutely no need for any group or groups (whether they’re a majority or a minority of the population) to be harmed in order for any other group or groups (whether they’re a majority or a minority of the population) to be benefited in the most effective ways.

Because within the harmful competitive current structuring of society, people are misled or coerced into believing the lies that not everyone can be benefited at the same time, that many people must be harmed in order for some other people to be benefited, and that for people to benefit themselves and maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, they must compete with, or be in harmful competition with other people (and at least instrumentally harm them), this current structuring is obviously harmful to the self as well as others, preventing people from maximising their own and others’ well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways (which must involve benefiting others most effectively), and preventing enough from being done to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including that which they face themselves) in the most effective ways, as well as causing so much suffering and injustice for others (as well as themselves).  As the most effective ways for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves can be to try also to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people and possibly all people, in the most effective ways, everyone’s efforts and striving to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves in the most effective ways, can obviously be unified, and can contribute and be linked to each other, or to everyone else’s efforts and striving to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways; everyone’s efforts and striving to fight suffering and injustice which they themselves face in the most effective ways can be unified, and can contribute and be linked to each other, or to everyone else’s efforts and striving to fight suffering and injustice for themselves in the most effective ways;  people need to maximise others’ well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways in order to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways.  Again people should possibly always benefit other people primarily because it benefits other people, not because it benefits the self (with any benefit to the self only being intended to be a secondary side effect), if benefit is to be maximised most effectively, though again, all of this does mean that people can potentially harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment, to motivate themselves to benefit others and fight the suffering and injustice in the most effective ways.

        And there’s so much evidence to show that ‘human nature’ or the ‘human character’ is malleable, that the social environment or structuring which people find themselves in has far more influence on how people think and behave, and that people aren’t ‘naturally’ or intrinsically competitive and selfish in ways which harm others; obviously people have the potential to be competitive and selfish in ways which harm others, but whether they act like that or not depends significantly on whether the social environments or structurings which they find themselves in are ones which mislead, coerce or influence people into acting like that or not (or into believing the lies that in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they need to at least instrumentally compete with and harm others).  Obviously it can be hard to prove or disprove the existence of ‘free will’/agency, or the ability to decide to behave in different ways (but it obviously seems most beneficial for many reasons to think and behave as if agency/’free will’ do exist, even if other forces are determining this, etc), and, while acknowledging that, it’s impossible to disprove the argument that people have the potential to overcome drives to compete and act selfishly in ways which harm others, and to decide not to think and behave selfishly and competitively in ways which are harmful to others; again, all the arguments that the harmful selfish competitive ways in which many people behave within the current structuring are the only ways in which humans can behave, or that the structuring can’t be changed from being like this, rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s a lot more evidence to refute these negative arguments and premises than there is to support them.  And while it’s possibly most beneficial for the primary intention in benefiting others to be to benefit others, there can be incentives to decide to behave in ways which are more beneficial to others (again as long as the primary aim is benefit others, not the self), which can also therefore be more beneficial to the self, as a secondary consequence or side-effect; again even in order for people to maintain their ability and potential to benefit others, people obviously need to benefit themselves to the extent of providing for their needs which they are able provide for themselves, but people obviously can collectively provide for many of their needs through mutually beneficial behaviour for each other, and people can find ways to provide for the needs which only they can provide for themselves which have least negative impact on others (and increase their ability to benefit others).   And because benefiting others and each other in the most effective ways can be the most effective ways to maximise benefit for the self, there is a massive incentive to harness selfish drives to maximise benefit for the self to maximise benefit for others in the most effective ways; in the kind of structuring of human society that we can make or bring about, where resources, human time and energy can be or are devoted to fighting suffering and injustice, to maximising benefit for everyone, and to providing for everyone’s needs, people will be able to recognise and see clearly that, there’s not only no need to compete with or harm others to get resources they need to survive (and therefore to maximise their own well-being happiness and fulfilment), there’s a massive incentive to decide to harness drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment, to decide to behave in ways which benefit others most effectively; in this kind of structuring that we can make, even if people’s primary aim and motivation is to benefit themselves in the most effective ways, people would not necessarily think they need to compete or act selfishly in ways which harm others, and would be able to recognise and see clearly that developing better human relationships, community and solidarity, and benefiting others in the most effective ways, can be the most effective ways of maximising their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment (and that there are many more reasons why there’s no need to compete or be selfish in ways which harm others, in social interaction or in any other ways, in order to maximise benefit for themselves most effectively).

        Again partly because within the current structuring and past structurings, people are and have been misled, coerced or influenced into believing the lies that in order to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment, they need to accumulate, possess, consume or expend more resources than they need to survive (or to use these unnecessary amounts of and types resources on other harmful behaviours which they are misled or coerced into believing will benefit them effectively when they don’t), again many people obviously do accumulate and have accumulated (control over) and destroyed such vast amounts of these excess, unnecessary amounts and types of resources, that, because there are only finite amounts of resources which humankind cannot survive without in the world, the remaining amounts of those resources are not enough to provide for all the needs of all the other people (which, if it continues at anywhere near its current rates, includes people in future generations, as well as people in other parts of the world now), when again so much evidence shows they could far more effectively maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment if they used their excess resources (or made them available to be used) to fight the suffering and injustice and benefit other people.  And all the arguments that human society needs such people to continue to accumulate, possess and consume these excess amounts of resources (or needs massive harmful inequalities, hierarchies and oppressive or exploitative sets of relationships like these) in order to function or to continue at all, again obviously all rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to support them; in the current structuring some people are misled or coerced into believing that such harmful inequalities, hierarchies and sets of relationships are necessary for society (by which they mean the current structuring) to function, or are necessary for them to be benefited most effectively, when they could be benefited far more effectively in other possible structurings which don’t have (or function on) harmful inequalities, hierarchies and sets of relationships like those, or which don’t cause or allow suffering and injustice in those ways or other ways; and if harmful inequalities and sets of relationships like those (and subsequent suffering and injustice) are necessary for the current structuring to function, then that obviously means the current structuring needs to be changed, and when there are so many other possible structurings which don’t cause or allow suffering and injustice in those ways or others, there is no excuse not to change the current structuring.  While many people with these excess resources do make some of their resources available to fight the suffering and injustice, many such people still continue to accumulate, possess and consume more excess resources at the same time (with all the at least instrumentally harmful effects that behaviour has), and don’t make enough resources available to provide for the needs of enough people or all people, or to fight suffering and injustice of enough people or all people, in the most effective ways; the excess resources which they do make available to be used to benefit others, are not used to benefit others in the most effective ways, and do not change the structuring that causes and allows so much harmful behaviour to continue.  People with these massive amounts of excess resources can obviously potentially make enough resources available to provide for everyone’s needs, and still have enough resources for themselves to survive and to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, as again there are enough resources accumulated in human society for everyone to survive and maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment.  But partly because people who already have more resources than they need to provide for their needs and to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment, are misled, coerced or influenced into thinking that accumulating, possessing and consuming even more excess resources will maximise benefit for themselves, many such people obviously still continue to try to behave and live in these ways, taking more excess resources from the planet (irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humans can’t survive without), or from other people, including each other (people who also have excess resources) or people who already don’t have enough to survive (causing harm in so many other ways), which forces them into competition with others and each other, trying to stop others and each other from taking their resources.  The types of jobs and work they have to spend so much of their time and energy doing in order to accumulate and consume more resources, and to stop others from taking their resources, also obviously don’t effectively bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment (and which obviously don’t benefit others effectively enough or fight suffering and injustice effectively, and which do at least instrumentally harm other people).  But as they are still misled, coerced or influenced into thinking that consuming more excess resources and continuing these harmful competitive behaviours will eliminate their consequent lack of well-being happiness and fulfilment, they are trapped to an extent in a harmful cycle of continuing this harmful behaviour, which doesn’t benefit them effectively, and causes so much harm to others; any consequent lack of well-being, happiness and fulfillment they have can only be effectively fought or eliminated by them behaving in ways which develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, benefiting others and fighting the suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, or by them changing the structuring which causes and allows the harmful cylces of harmful behaviour to continue.  But because within this current structuring so many people have as a result of processes like those been denied direct access to the environments which would enable them to live sustainably, or to get the resources they need in order to survive in ways which don’t irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which they and all humankind can’t survive without, they have been forced within the current structuring into becoming dependant on types of working and living which do cause so much harm in those ways and others (or the only ways they can get the resources they need in order to survive are to participate in those ways of working and living which cause so much harm in those ways and others), which again highlights how the current structuring obviously needs to be changed.

        And because to varying degrees what remains of the finite amounts of resources which humankind cannot survive without (that haven’t been or aren’t being accumulated, consumed, possessed or expended already by some people), obviously aren’t enough to provide for everyone else’s needs, many people who don’t have enough resources to survive are obviously forced into competing with others for the insufficient amounts of remaining resources, or into possibly at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harming others in turn just by trying to get resources to survive, who possibly also don’t have enough to survive, in another harmful cycle. And this competition is aggravated, exacerbated and made worse by how the current structuring also misleads, coerces and influences many of these people into thinking that they need to accumulate more resources than they need to survive in order to maximise benefit for themselves, so that many of these people also are not only competing to get what they need to survive, but also for excess and unnecessary amounts and types of resources.  Partly because people are denied access to and are more distanced from the resources they need to survive in these ways and others, people are forced to spend so much more time and energy than would be necessary in other possible structurings doing types of jobs and work which don’t benefit themselves or others effectively (and do at least instrumentally cause so much harm), just to try to obtain the resources they need to survive.  And partly because of that, to varying degrees people don’t have enough time and energy to take enough action to fight the suffering and injustice and benefit others in the most effective ways, as well as not behaving in ways which would maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively.  And again these types of jobs and work which people are forced to spend so much of their time and energy doing in order to try and survive within this current structuring (as well as other behaviours within the current structuring) at least instrumentally perpetuate, drive, spread, increase, multiply, enlarge and expand the processes, structuring, systems and behaviours which transfer more resources to people who already have far more resources than they need to survive, partly by at least instrumentally taking more resources, time and energy from other people with varying amounts of resources, or from the finite amounts of remaining resources on the planet which humans can’t survive without, exacerbating these problems further, as well as obviously not effectively fighting suffering and injustice or maximising benefit for others or themselves.

        Again as so much of the finite amounts of resources which humankind cannot survive without have been or are being accumulated, consumed, expended and destroyed by many people in ways which deny more other people access to these resources (and resources which people can’t survive without are continually being taken from so many more), even if so many of these other people use all of their time and energy trying to get resources they need to survive out of these remaining resources, they still are denied access to them, and so, again, they are denied access to survival and life.  And as people who have been forced into these situations are also forced to spend so much of, or all of, their time and energy trying to get resources they need to survive, so many of them are deprived of enough time, energy and resources to fight their own suffering and injustice in the most effective ways (or to effectively fight the structuring which has forced them into this situation where they are denied access to necessary resources), or each other’s suffering and injustice, or other people’s; and again, for so many people, whether or not they are allowed access to the resources they need to survive, they have to use so much of their time and energy trying to obtain these resources that they are denied the opportunity to decide how to use their time and energy (without deciding to die), or how to live and behave, and they are denied access to self-determination and autonomy (even insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy); the types of work and jobs they are forced to use so much of, or all of, their time and energy on to try to survive, can often be actively harmful to them in many ways (as well as not even getting them access to necessary resources) including in how it prevents them from being able to decide to use time and energy (or to live and behave) in ways they need to in order to maximise benefit for themselves (or others);  as so many people in situations like this are forced into competition with each other, they are denied access to the most beneficial ways of living, like living in community and solidarity with each other with good human relationships, sustainably with the environments and ecosystems which humankind can’t survive without, and they are forced into becoming dependant on at least instrumentally harmful types of work and living in order to try and survive (or the only ways they can obtain the resources they can’t survive without are to participate in these harmful types of working and living); again in other possible structurings it would be totally unnecessary for anyone to have to do types of work and jobs like that or to be in situations like that, and people would not be misled or coerced into believing that there is even any (manufactured) need for anyone to be denied access to the resources they need to survive; in these other possible structurings people would be able to only do work which effectively fights suffering and injustice for themselves and others (or which provides for their own and everyone else’s needs) and which maximises well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves or others in the most effective ways, and that kind of work requires far less time and energy than the unbeneficial (and often harmful) work in the current structuring.

        As people with varying amounts of excess resources are misled or coerced in these situations created within this current structuring into believing they need to accumulate even more resources to maximise benefit for themselves by at least instrumentally taking them from other people with varying amounts of resources (or from the environments which humans can’t survive without), and because the only means available within the current structuring for many people without enough resources to survive (as well as other people) to try to get the resources to survive (or more resources than they need to survive, as they may also be misled or coerced into believing they need to get excess resources), consist in at least instrumentally taking them from other people with varying amounts of resources, nearly all people, with any amounts of resources, are trying to at least instrumentally take resources from each other (which obviously has the most harmful effects on people with the least resources).  Even people with far more resources than they need to survive are in competition with each other and others, and are under threat from each other and others who are trying to take resources from them in order to accumulate more resources for themselves (whether that’s resources they need to survive or merely excess resources); and they can feel threatened within the current structuring not only that their excess resources (which they are misled or coerced into believing will effectively increase benefit for them when they won’t) might be taken from them, but also that even the resources they can’t survive without might be taken from them; partly because some people within the current structuring take or have taken so many resources from other people (or take or have taken so many of the finite resources which humankind cannot survive without that other people don’t have enough to survive), even people with massive amounts of excess resources can feel threatened in this current structuring that other people will behave in those same ways and take so many resources from them that they won’t have enough to survive.  This can obviously contribute further to making people with massive amounts of excess resources (as well as others) less willing to make enough of their resources available to other people, or even to stop taking from others, and more willing to harmfully compete more with others over resources and to take more resources from others.

        Obviously people are misled or coerced in the current structuring into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves they need to harmfully compete with or at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people and each other in far more ways than through resources or over resources, as this harmful behaviour occurs in so many on macro and micro levels, on global and local scales, between individuals or between groups (which are formed with many negative arbitrary or negatively socially constructed criteria within the current structuring), in so many forms of social or personal interaction and relationships; as an example in micro-level interaction and relationships, people within the current structuring, often in very subtle ways as well as more overt ways, obviously compete with or harm others to get a feeling of superiority and dominance over others, or to appear to others as well as themselves to be superior to and dominant over others  (which obviously means making others feel or seem inferior), because people are misled or coerced in the current structuring into believing that behaving in ways like those are effective ways, or even the only ways, of maximising benefit for themselves in interaction and relationships like this; behaviour like that is an obvious example of people trying to benefit themselves by harming other people, when people again can far more effectively increase or maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment in social and personal interaction and relationships, like in all other areas, by benefiting others and by seeing other people are benefited, so that again harming others in ways like those too can also mean harming the self at least instrumentally.  People are under constant threat of other people trying to harm them in far more ways than by taking resources from them, which can also obviously contribute to making people want to harmfully compete with and harm others more in turn in so many other ways (like in micro-level social and personal interaction and relationships), in order try to benefit themselves, and this obviously can reproduce this harmful behaviour more; this harmful competition provokes or incites more harmful competitive behaviour, in more harmful vicious cycles within the current structuring.

        This harmful competition in itself again obviously breaks up and destroys community, solidarity and good human relationships, setting people against each other, causing harm in itself, as well as causing people to harm each other in so many other ways, including over resources.  And as the most effective ways for people to become happy and fulfilled are for people to benefit each other and develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, in breaking up and destroying community, solidarity and good human relationships, the harmful competing obviously prevents or obstructs people from being able to behave enough in the ways which most effectively benefit them or maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment.  In destroying and breaking up community and solidarity in itself, it reduces people’s motivation and will to benefit other people and fight suffering and injustice.  As it stops people from cooperating and working collectively and efficiently together to fight suffering and injustice for other people or themselves, it also prevents people from taking the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for each other or others or themselves.  The harmful competition divides people against each other, forcing them to be in opposition each other, preventing people from uniting to take the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice, and to make sure resources, time and energy are used primarily to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, and to provide for everyone’s or each other’s needs; it prevents people from uniting to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

        Within the current structuring, so many people are misled or coerced into using arbitrary, subjective, (negatively)-socially constructed criteria to categorise and divide people (including themselves) into different groups (which there are prevailing consensuses and hegemonies around), so that they and other people will recognise, identify or define other people and themselves as being part of a certain group, or part of various intersectional groups; people again are misled or coerced into believing that, alongside how action to benefit their own group can benefit them individually, in order for their own group (and therefore themselves) to be benefited, other groups must be harmed at least instrumentally (or that they must compete with and harm other groups), or that the best ways to benefit their own group (and themselves) are ways which harm other groups; within the current structuring people are not only set against each other in competition with each other as individuals, but also as groups, and not only at least instrumentally harm other people individually, but also at least instrumentally harm other groups of people; again there’s so much evidence to show firstly that any different groups, and all the people in them, could benefit themselves far more effectively by benefiting other groups, and all the people in them, instead of harming them, partly due to, and linked with, how there are enough resources accumulated in human society to maximise well-being for everyone most effectively, and how the most effective ways for people to maximise benefit for themselves are to maximise benefit for others; and also linked to that, categorising, defining and dividing people into groups on the basis of arbitrary, subjective and (negatively)-socially constructed criteria like those within the current structuring, in ways which deny people self-determination, autonomy and agency, obviously can be harmful to the objects of that behaviour, but also to the subjects of that behaviour, in many ways; as the subjects of that behaviour obviously aren’t behaving in ways which most effectively benefit others (or are at least instrumentally harming others), they are not maximising benefit for themselves in the most effective ways, and that behaviour can obviously cause or exacerbate competition and conflict between groups and individuals, which can be harmful to them as well as the objects, in many other ways; it’s obviously far more beneficial for all people individually and all groups if they don’t categorise or define others and themselves in ways which obstruct anyone else’s self-determination, autonomy and agency to categorise and define themselves and others, or cause people to harm other people in other ways; people ensuring that all people (and themselves) have self-determination, autonomy and agency insofar is they don’t obstruct anyone else’s, considering each other equally, and aiming to maximise benefit for all people in all groups, instead of seeking to primarily benefit people in their own groups in ways which harm others, is obviously the most effective way for them to maximise benefit for other people and themselves, or all people.

        Beneficial behaviour can obviously cause and generate more beneficial behaviour; with people benefiting other people, the people who are benefiting other people obviously also generate benefit within themselves (due to how benefiting others is a most effective way of generating a sense of well-being, happiness and fulfilment within the self), as well as obviously causing the other people to be benefited; and this in turn can obviously motivate, encourage or inspire the other people (who’re being benefited) to reciprocate that beneficial behaviour, and to benefit in return the people who benefited them, as well as others, which also generates more benefit for themselves (or a sense of or feelings of benefit within themselves), and motivates the people who they are now benefiting to also reciprocate that beneficial behaviour further and benefit them back as well as benefiting more other people, which also generates benefit within themselves, and so on; and the beneficial cycle continues, multiplying much more benefit, and benefit becomes self-generating and self-multiplying, increasing motivation, will and intention to benefit (though again this is bearing in mind that the primary motivation and intention should possibly always be to benefit others because it benefits others, not because it benefits the self, with any benefit to self only being intended to be a secondary side-effect). People benefiting each other like this intrinsically generates unity, community, solidarity and better human relationships, which intrinsically brings more benefit to people in so many ways, and which motivates people to benefit each other more, which in turn generates more unity, which then motivates people to benefit each other more, and benefit and unity multiply each other many times over, and are also self-generating and self-multiplying, in more beneficial virtuous cycles.  Uniting, and the benefit and better human relationships it brings, obviously eliminates the harmful competition, which in itself is harmful in so many ways including in how it destroys the better human relationships, community, solidarity and other behaviours which bring benefit more effectively than the competition. And uniting also enables people and motivates people to work together better, more cooperatively and more efficiently or effectively, to find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, and so uniting enables people and motivates people to take more effective action to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or uniting enables people and motivates people to make the collaboration and collective action to make it priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, which also generates more unity as well as benefit.  So it is obviously far more beneficial for everyone is all of human society is structured around how benefiting other people and uniting intrinsically generate so much more benefit and unity for everyone, each other, and people’s selves, in so many ways, and how benefit and unity generated again multiply themselves many more times over, generating many more times more benefit and unity for everyone, which then also multiply themselves many more times over, with benefit and unity again generating each other, and with unity and benefit again being self-generating and self-multiplying with each other.  It would obviously make life so much easier, as well as so much more beneficial, for everyone, if people aren’t under constant threat of being harmed by other people who are coerced into believing that they need to harm others in order to benefit themselves, or if people aren’t forced into harmful competition with each other, and if people can acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways to benefit themselves are to benefit other people, so that people could be only be benefiting themselves by mutually benefiting others or each other.

        And it’s obviously partly as a result of different harmful aspects of the current ideological, political and economic structuring of human society like all those, or partly because, for example, people are misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm others on micro and macro levels in order to maximise benefit for themselves, that only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, only such small numbers of people are able to or are motivated to take enough action for this purpose, or that only such small amounts of people’s time and energy can be or are used for this purpose, within that current structuring (alongside how those current ideological, political and economic processes, behaviours and systems cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in themselves in ways like those).  And again as long as only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and only such small numbers of people are able to or are motivated to take enough action to for this purpose (or people can only use such small amounts of their time and energy for this purpose), we’re obviously never going to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice or in maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.  So the lack of enough of the resources accumulated in human society being made available to fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, and the lack of enough of the time and energy which humankind collectively has being made available for humankind to collectively use to fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, are causes of suffering and injustice in themselves on other levels of causation.  And the structuring of human society which causes the situations in which only such small amounts of people’s time and energy, and only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, constitutes another cause of suffering and injustice, on a further underlying level of causation.  Or the structuring which causes people to be misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to maximise benefit for themselves, is a further underlying cause of suffering and injustice, on a further underlying level of causation.

        As long as only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice, if some people are using resources to fight one individual cause of human suffering on certain more surface levels of causation, like cancer, poverty or ecocide, within that current structuring, they’re stopping those resources from being used to fight other causes of suffering and injustice which also need to be fought or eliminated, because the such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society that are made available within the current structuring to be used to fight causes of suffering and injustice, are nowhere near enough to effectively fight and eliminate all the different individual causes of human suffering and injustice in the world, like poverty, cancer or ecocide, on those surface levels of causation, or other levels (and those resources need to be used to fight those other causes of suffering and injustice too).  And while only such small numbers of people are able to take enough action to fight suffering and injustice, for themselves or others, if some people are using their time, energy and agency to fight one cause of human suffering on those more surface levels of causation, like cancer, poverty or ecocide, within that structuring, they’re stopping that time, energy and agency from being used to fight other causes of suffering and injustice which also need to be fought and eliminated, and which that time, energy and agency needs to be used to fight and eliminate too (that time, energy and agency needs to be used to fight those other causes of suffering and injustice too), because the amounts of time, energy and agency people are able to use within the current structuring to effectively fight and eliminate any such causes of suffering and injustice aren’t enough to effectively fight and eliminate all of them, in the same way.  Within the current structuring, because the mains ways which are available for people to use (or which people are misled or coerced into believing they need to use) in order to try to maximise benefit for themselves (like accumulating, consuming and expending more resources than they need), are at least instrumentally harmful to other people, many people are constantly looking for and using new ways of benefiting themselves which also harm other people (like by obtaining more resources than they need), or the main ways many people are constantly looking for and using to try to benefit themselves within the current structuring are ones which at least instrumentally cause harm to other people; if people are stopped from using one such way of benefiting themselves (which at least instrumentally harms others), in order to try to replace the benefit they were getting from that means which they have been stopped from using, within the current structuring they will look for and use other ways of benefiting themselves which also harm other people, or the main other ways they will look for and use to try to benefit themselves within the current structuring will be ones which also at least instrumentally harm others.  So that if you focus on and succeed in stopping one individual cause of harm or suffering and injustice on one surface level of causation (like poverty, cancer, or ecocide), or focus on and succeed in stopping certain people from causing one individual surface-level cause of suffering and injustice, like poverty, cancer or ecocide, in one way or area (without changing the underlying structural causes of the problems or of this harmful behaviour), within the current structuring, those certain people are most likely to just cause other suffering and injustice at least instrumentally in another way or in another area (as means which cause harm at least instrumentally are the main ways which are available to people to benefit themselves within the current structuring), in order to try and replace the benefit they were getting for themselves from that previous way that was at least instrumentally causing the harm that you were trying to stop initially.  So unless people change the structuring that causes people to behave in these harmful ways, or for example, causes people to be misled or coerced into believing that they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, we’re never going to get far enough in fighting all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world.

        Also because the main ways which are made available within the current structuring for people to try to benefit themselves are ways which at least instrumentally harm other people, and because people, in order to try and increase benefit for themselves generally from day to day, are therefore constantly looking for and using more new ways anyway to benefit themselves in ways which at least instrumentally harm other people on micro or macro levels, through global economic processes or personal interaction (when again these ways obviously won’t benefit them anywhere nearly as effectively as benefiting other people), so much more suffering and injustice is being caused constantly, or so many more causes of suffering and injustice are being caused constantly, in different ways and different areas.  The amounts of resources, human time, energy and agency that are available within the current structuring (or the current levels of action) to fight suffering and injustice aren’t even enough to fight the current amounts of suffering and injustice (or the current amounts of causes of suffering and injustice), let alone the even worse amounts of harm that are being caused all the time (or the more different causes of suffering and injustice that are being caused all the time).  Within the current structuring so much more human suffering and injustice is being caused than people are able to effectively effectively fight and eliminate within the current structuring; or human suffering and injustice is being caused far faster or at a far greater rate than the rate at which people are able to effectively fight and eliminate it within the current structuring (without changing that structuring).  And this is all exacerbated by how the number of people who are being misled or coerced within the current structuring into trying to benefit themselves in these at least instrumentally harmful ways is also increasing (as well as how the scales on which, extents to which, and amounts in which so many individuals are increasing this harmful behaviour individually is increasing), and there is no sufficient corresponding increase in amounts of resources, human energy and time being made available to fight suffering and injustice within this current structuring.  So that again if you and other people are only trying to stop (and even succeed in stopping) only one individual cause of human suffering and injustice on one surface level of causation, like cancer, poverty or ecocide, within this current structuring, you aren’t stopping other people from causing more suffering and injustice in other ways or areas, or from causing more different causes of suffering and injustice in other ways and areas (or from even causing more suffering and injustice in the same ways or areas you were trying to stop them from causing it in).  Action obviously needs to be taken to end individual causes of suffering and injustice on surface levels of causation, like poverty, cancer or ecocide, but unless that action is linked with more other action to change the structuring which causes the harmful behaviours like those, we’re never going to get far enough.

        It’s obviously possible to articulate many different causes of human suffering and injustice on many different levels of causation, on spectrums from underlying root causes, like ideological, political and economic structures (including micro and macro ways of thinking, behaving and relating to other people and the world), to more surface causes (like poverty, cancer or ecocide).  And different causes of suffering and injustice at different points on these spectrums can cause, worsen or exacerbate other causes of harm at other points on these spectrums; in some situations, causes of suffering and injustice, such as certain forms of poverty, cancer and ecocide, can obviously all cause, worsen or exacerbate each other, and can possibly fuel, perpetuate or more deeply ingrain underlying harmful social structural causes of the harm, which can also cause, worsen or exacerbate each other, but possibly all the different causes of human suffering (that are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring on certain surface levels of causation, like poverty, ecocide or cancer (or the lack of sufficient action to help people with illnesses such as cancer), have similar underlying structural causes on other levels of causation, which are linked to all those different harmful effects and aspects of the ways which human society is currently structured socially (including ideologically, politically, and economically).  Aspects of this current structuring that are so significant in terms of being such a massive underlying cause of so much human suffering and injustice, are the aspects that mislead or coerce people into believing that in order to benefit themselves they need to at least instrumentally harm other people, as that is therefore obviously such a massive cause of people thinking and behaving in so many at least instrumentally harmful ways like those, and such a massive cause of the situation in which not enough resources (accumulated in human society) are made available for humankind to collectively use to fight suffering and injustice or to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and such a massive cause of the situation in which not enough people are able to use enough of their energy and time for that purpose (or to take enough action for that purpose), for each other and themselves/ourselves.  Without changing that current structuring which coerces people into believing that they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people in order to benefit themselves (and therefore into thinking and behaving in harmful ways like those, or which causes and allows harmful behaviours and processes like those), obviously not enough of the resources (accumulated in human society) will be made available to provide for everyone’s needs, fight suffering and injustice, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, and not enough people will be able to use enough time and energy (or to take enough action) for that purpose, for everyone, each other and themselves/ourselves, and we’ll never get far enough.  If people are trying to fight only individual causes of suffering and injustice on surface levels of causation, like poverty, cancer or ecocide, without changing that aspect of the current structuring which misleads or coerces people into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm others in order to benefit themselves, we’ll never get far enough, and more suffering and injustice will be caused, or more causes of suffering and injustice will be caused.  The current levels and types of action to fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring aren’t enough to prevent more suffering and injustice from being caused, or to prevent more causes of suffering and injustice from being created.  The current structuring directly obstructs people’s ability to take the most effective action to fight the suffering and injustice (including to prevent it), and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, as well as causing and allowing so much suffering and injustice in other ways.

        While many people obviously take a lot of action to fight different causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation (though not enough people within the current structuring are able to take enough action to fight all the suffering and injustice or to successfully fight the structural causes of all the suffering and injustice), many of these people use some of their time and energy to fight suffering and injustice, but use more of their time and energy living and behaving in ways (including doing types of jobs or work) which at least instrumentally perpetuate and continue processes, systems and structures which at least instrumentally cause harm to others, and aren’t taking action to change the structuring that causes and allows so much other suffering and injustice (or making the necessary changes to the structuring of society), so that often the benefit they cause to people with some of their time and energy doesn’t outweigh the harm they are at least instrumentally causing by living and behaving in those other ways with the rest of their time and energy.  And many people are aware of the benefit they can gain themselves from taking action to benefit other people, and do use time and energy to benefit others (either because it benefits themselves, or because of intention to benefit others, or a mixture of both), but again they often use more time and energy living and behaving in those at least instrumentally harmful ways, so that again the benefit they cause to people doesn’t outweigh the harm they at least instrumentally cause (and within the current structuring people will obviously take action to fight one cause of suffering and injustice, on one level of causation, in ways which directly cause other suffering and injustice).  If people’s primary intention is to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (only intending any subsequent benefit to themselves, which they gain as a result of doing that, to be a secondary side-effect of that), then it makes sense for people to try to do that in the most effective ways, and those most effective ways have to consist in and involve changing the current structuring that causes and allows the harm, or involve and consist in making it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.  Obviously, within the current structuring, in order for a person to maintain their ability to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit in the most effective ways in the long term (and change the structuring, processes and behaviours of other people which cause so much harm, and will continue to cause so much harm regardless of how much that person minimises the amount they individually perpetuate and continue those harmful processes and behaviours themselves), they need to participate to some extent in some of the harmful processes (for example, in order to communicate with and influence as many of those other people as possible, it might be necessary to use some processes which have an at least instrumentally harmful effect on others), but that person needs to make sure that the benefit they are causing others is outweighing any harm they might be instrumentally causing in order to maintain their ability to maximise benefit in the long term; the only way for a person to avoid continuing or perpetuating any harmful processes at all would be to live a subsistance life in isolation from the parts of human society that are causing the harm and need to be changed, but that would mean abandoning their ability to communicate with and infuence enough other people, or abandoning their ability to change the harmful structuring of society and the harmful processes and behaviours being continued by others, so that person would actually be instrumentally causing more harm in the long term by trying to avoid any engagement in any processes that are at least instrumentally harmful.

        As well as how time obviously has run out and is always running out to fight so many different causes of suffering and injustice, such a massive more specific surface-level cause of human suffering and injustice, which time is rapidly running out for people to be able to prevent, is ecocide caused by the behaviours of so many people that are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, as the damage many people are currently doing to the planet is causing global ecological tipping points to be crossed over already, so that very soon it will be too late for there to be ways to prevent this (unstoppable) increase in the amount of human suffering and injustice, which will be beyond human control; due to the number and complexity of all the variables involved, it may be impossible to say how much, but at the moment we still possibly have some time and some chance to prevent or fight those even worse amounts of human suffering and injustice (and even we don’t have time, because there’s no way of knowing this, we have to behave like we do still have time), and it’s possibly currently within our control to change the behaviours which cause that harm and the current structuring that causes or allows those behaviours.

        As there are so many different causes of suffering and injustice on so many levels of causation, and as so many of them are so massive, complex and diverse, in nearly every aspect and area of human life and society, we can possibly only fight all of them effectively if all people unite and mobilise together to fight all of them.  And this current ideological, political and economic structurings which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice, are so ingrained, extensive, pervasive and hegemonic, reaching into almost every aspect and area of human society, life, consciousness, thought, behaviour and interaction (and the harmful behaviours this current structuring causes and allows are so ingrained, extensive and pervasive), that we can possibly only change them and break free of them if everyone mobilises together to change them, or if all people unite to make it the absolute priority of human society and everyone to change them and to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone; until all people can unite to find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice, and make it the primary aim and absolute priority of human society (or of everyone or all of us) to fight the suffering and injustice, and to maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, we’ll never be able to get far enough.  And if all people are to be able to mobilize together and unite for this purpose, again it’s obviously necessary to make these ideological structural changes of values, consciousness, aspirations, and ways of thinking, so that people are no longer misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm others in order to benefit themselves, so that people can free up their time, energy, agency and resources (as well as the massive intelligence, creativity, imagination and other abilities people have) to find and actualise the most effective ways to change this structuring and make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness, and fulfilment, for themselves and others, in the most effective ways.

If not everyone mobilises together and unites to make these changes (including these ideological structural changes of values, consciousness and aspirations), then people who do mobilise to make these changes will not only be unsuccessful, but will also be exploited and harmed (like millions or billions of people already are) by other people who haven’t mobilised and united with them to make these changes, or by people who are still being misled or coerced into believing that they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people (like people making these changes, as well as each other and others) in order to benefit themselves, and will therefore be misled or coerced into thinking they need to try to to stop people from being able to make these changes (which is another reason why we possibly need all people to unite for this purpose).  And it is currently only a very small minority of the human population, who are in control of most of the world’s resources and have most power, who are behaving in the ways which at least instrumentally cause the most harm to people (including by irreversibly destroying the ecosystems which humankind can’t survive without), so that even if all other people unite and mobilise together to make these changes without that small minority of the human population joining them, then that small minority would carry on at least instrumentally causing so much harm, including by completely destroying the ecosystems which the rest of humankind cannot survive without (and which they probably won’t be able to survive without either), and would prevent other people from making these necessary changes.

        This might all sound naïvely idealistic, but until people start taking things like this seriously, we’ll never get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world or in maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone; and it’s surely far more naïve to assume that we can end such massive causes of human suffering as poverty, conflict or ecocide, or to do enough to help people in need generally, while only such small numbers of people are able to take enough action to fight suffering and injustice, while only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice, and while people are still misled or coerced into believing the lies that in order to benefit themselves, they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people.  The current ideological structuring, harmful competitive mindsets, or values and aspiration systems, which mislead or coerce people into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, also:

-mislead and coerce people into believing that human society can’t changed from the way that it’s currently structured, that there’s no alternative to the way that human society is currently structured, or that this current structuring can’t be changed, when again all of those arguments rely on premises that can’t be proven, and there’s so much more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to defend them (as is outlined earlier and further on)…

-subsequently obviously mislead and coerce people into valuing, aspiring towards, or caring about the harmful ways of living and behaving within the current structuring, because they mislead and coerce them into believing the lies that these harmful ways of living and behaving are the most effective ways for them to benefit themselves, or constitute their best option, when they can only possibly be perceived as the best option if people are to only live and behave solely within the confines of the current structuring without trying to change it, or are therefore to massively limit the amount they can benefit themselves; uniting with others to change the current structuring to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, could benefit them far more effectively…

  -therefore make people value or care about the current structuring because it allows them to behave in harmful ways like those which they’re misled or coerced into believing will benefit them effectively when they don’t…

   -therefore cause people to not want to take action to change these current structures and behaviours which need to be changed in order to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (so they cause people to not want to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways)…

    -therefore mislead or coerce people into trying to stop or discredit action to fight the suffering and injustice in the most effective ways and to change the structuring that causes and allows it (because this action to fight suffering and injustice most effectively will stop them from engaging in the harmful ways of behaving which they’re misled or coerced into wrongly thinking are effective ways of benefiting themselves); or it misleads or coerces people into believing the lies that in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they need to try to maintain the current structuring which allows them to behave in ways which at least instrumentally harm others, when again participating in making these changes to society (or changing the structuring of society) and uniting with others to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, can be a far more effective way for them to find well-being, happiness and fulfillment…

     -therefore cause people to not see the point or importance of making these changes, and cause people not to see the benefits which making these changes will bring to everyone including themselves…

We need to be able to make these ideological structural changes of values, aspirations and consciousness, and changes in ways of thinking and constructing characters:

-to make the necessary political and economic (and other) structural changes to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone most effectively, or to be able to affect and move the dialectics between the political, economic and ideological structures, and human agency and behaviour, in ways which enable all people and human society to move in directions in which all people can unite to make it the primary aim and priority of human society and everyone (or each other) to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone; people obviously need to work out exactly what induces people to behave in ways which cause suffering and injustice on macro and micro levels, and find the most effective and beneficial means of stopping this harmful behaviour, or the most effective and beneficial ways for people to stop themselves from behaving in these harmful ways; or we need to prioritise finding the most effective and beneficial means of eliminating the underlying harmful structures, values, aspirations, ways of thinking and behaving, or anything else, which causes the harmful behaviour:

 -to change and end the harmful structuring and behaviour in ways which don’t cause more suffering and injustice, or in ways which are holistically peaceful and beneficial, (and other ways may therefore not be possible anyway)…

  -if current political and economic systems and structures (or other current systems, structures, processes and behaviours) aren’t to be replaced by other ones which also cause suffering and injustice, or if we are to be able to make holistic change, and make sure that changes to other systems and structures aren’t also to reproduce harmful behaviours…

   -if people with more resources and power now aren’t to be replaced by other people who will merely reproduce the harmful behaviours, or by other people who still want to have more resources than and power over others in ways which cause suffering and injustice, or if people are to stop wanting and trying to get more resources than and power or domination over others or cause harm in other ways, or if we are to be able to have an egalitarian and truly democratic human society (where it’s the priority to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone)…

    -if people are to be able to harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to maximise benefit for others…

Any other action to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone, which doesn’t address these harmful ideological structures, value and aspiration systems, or harmful ways of thinking, is possibly premature in many ways, or is ineffective in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice. We need to make these changes in ideological structures and value and aspirations systems, as well as in political and economic structures, in order to get far enough in fighting suffering and injustice, or in order for all people to be able to unite to make it the primary aim and priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfillment for everyone.

        Pretty much everyone agrees we need to (and that ideally we should) make these improvements (to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways), but people are misled or coerced into believing that making these improvements is impossible, or that not enough other people want to or are willing to make these improvements; these two misbeliefs are two of the main obstactles (among others) which prevent people from mobilising to make these improvements, so that hopefully, if enough people show each other their support for these ideas, it’ll help facilitate this necessary mobilisation of people so that we can open up spaces in the mainstreams (or all) of society for these dialogues to happen for people to be able to work out collectively the best or most effective ways for us to be able to make these improvements (and to overcome all other obstacles which prevent people from making these improvements), so that we can collectively actualise these ideas and solutions to actually make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways;

people are misled or coerced into believing that making these improvements isn’t possible partly because (with people being forced into harmful competition with each other in the ways they are within the current structuring) people are misled or coerced into believing that not enough other people would be willing to help make these changes, or that if they were to attempt to make these changes, other people would only ever harm those trying to make such changes (even though, again, pretty much all people obviously agree these changes should be made, and would want them to be made as they would obviously make life so much easier and so much more beneficial for everyone, by definition).  So if enough people, or all people, were to show each other or confirm to each other that they would want to make these changes collectively, to maximise benefit for everyone (instead of continuing to be in harmful competition with each other, with people trying to harm each other at least instrumentally in order to benefit themselves), it would obviously in itself break down that misbelief that that other people (or enough people) wouldn’t want to make these changes, which could therefore in turn eliminate a main reason why people believe that these changes are impossible; these changes are possible if enough people or all people mobilise to make them, and people would be able to see that they are possible if enough people, or all people, show each other that they would mobilise to make them together; that only thing could guarantee that we wouldn’t be able to make these changes would be if we didn’t even try.  It could possibly be useful if there was some new kind of social contract, declaration or pledge for people to confirm to each other that they do want to make these changes and that they will help make them, so that people can motivate each other to mobilise together and unite to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways;

signing the ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge at peopleunite.net (which you can also sign by sending your name to people@peopleunite.net), is a way for people to do this and to call for this, or for people to make this to happen;

the only way these necessary improvements (which are needed if we are to get far enough in fighting the harm and in maximising benefit) can happen is if we (or pretty much all people) make them happen, or if pretty much all people unite and mobilise together to make them happen, and if pretty much all people create spaces in the mainstreams (or all) of human society to work out collectively exactly how we can make them happen; so again it could be useful for there to be a way to facilitate or encourage this mobilisation, unification, and this creation of these spaces, to make these improvements; a way for people to confirm to each other that they/we are willing to take this leap and unite and mobilise together to make these improvements (like this PeopleUnite declaration, petition and pledge), could in itself help facilitate and encourage this mobilisation, unification, and this creation of these spaces; and the more people who sign it, the more this could encourage people to create these spaces and unite and mobilise to make these improvements.

        There are obviously many petitions like ones on the internet, targeting specific causes of suffering and injustice on quite surface levels of causation, which get send to millions of people and can sometimes have some positive effect in helping to stop certain surface-level causes of suffering and injustice, and even though obviously not all causes of suffering and injustice can be effectively fought with such petitions, there are obviously billions of other causes of suffering and injustice on similar levels of causation (which could potentially be effectively fought with petitions and therefore should have petitions targeting them) which there are no petitions about; within the current structuring obviously only a comparatively small number of petitions can get sent to and signed by enough people to have enough impact, and even if enough petitions (targeting all the different surface-level causes of suffering and injustice that petitions might help fight) were sent to enough people within the current structuring, this still wouldn’t change the underlying structural or systemic causes which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many ways (including by causing only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available within the current structuring to fight different causes of suffering and injustice, etc), and so it obviously wouldn’t be effective in fighting all those different surface-level causes of suffering and injustice.  And again as the ways which so many people are forced into living and behaving in order to even survive within the current structuring at least instrumentally fuel processes which are at least instrumentally harmful to so many other people in so many ways, if enough people were creating, signing, and getting enough other people to sign enough petitions to target all the different surface-level causes of suffering and injustice (which could potentially be fought effectively with petitions), not only would people obviously have to spend such massive amounts of their time, energy and resources creating, signing and getting enough other people to sign enough petitions, that they wouldn’t be able to take enough other necessary action to effectively fight different causes of suffering and injustice, but also they would have to be creating, signing and getting other people to sign petitions to end causes of suffering and injustice which they were at least instrumentally causing themselves to some extent, so people would have to end up creating, signing and getting other people to sign petitions to or against themselves, to stop themselves from causing particular causes of suffering and injustice, or to take more action to fight those causes of suffering and injustice.

So a way in which this ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge (as the kind of social contract/agreement/declaration aspect of it is outlined just above) also serves a purpose of being a kind of petition, is in how it calls all people to (or is in how it’s a way for all people to call each other to) unite to make it the priority of human society to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice, ranging from the underlying structural causes to more surface-level causes, or any causes, but with the most effective means, taking all the necessary forms of action; it also calls for all people or each other and themselves/ourselves to fully actualise our potentials for reflexivity and rationality to find the most effective ways to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and to hold each other and themselves/ourselves to account in doing this.  People with more excess resources obviously have more power to make certain changes within the current structuring than people with less resources, and this does call for or demand all people with more excess resources and power to fully participate in making these changes and use all the excess resources and power they have to help make it the priority of society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, but it also calls for them to recognise how participating in making these changes could benefit them far more effectively than behaving in the ways they do now within the current structuring; it calls them to acknowledge and act on the massive amounts of evidence to show that using their excess resources and power to help make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (including themselves) will obviously benefit them far more effectively than using their excess resources and power in the ways they do now within the current structuring.  No-one should feel threatened by this ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge and any correlating action around it, as its purpose is by definition to maximise benefit for everyone.  It calls for all people to acknowledge and act on the evidence that behaving in ways which maximise benefit for others are the most effective ways to maximise benefit for themselves, so that people can harness their drives for their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment to unite with other people to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (including themselves), so this can become self-generating too, like the benefit it can create; it calls for all other people to call for all other people to do this too, till we can collectively make this egalitarian human society where everyone has enough resources and power to fight suffering and injustice for themselves, each other and everyone, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment, for themselves, each other and everyone in the most effective ways.

        People obviously need to have self-determination and autonomy to find their own ways of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or solutions), insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s freedom and autonomy to do the same, if all people are to be able to truly maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment, for themselves and all other people or each other (or if benefit is to be truly maximised for everyone).  Any solutions (or ways or means of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising benefit) which are implemented should be ones which people can fully understand the benefits of, and willingly participate in, consent to and approve of, if benefit is to be maximised for everyone most effectively.  It’s obviously potentially harmful for one person or some people to impose solutions on others, as people obviously might not always be able to understand enough about the contexts and situations that others are in; the massive diversity and complexity of different human contexts and situations obviously requires that people should have this autonomy to find solutions and means which are most effective in their own context and situation, as obviously means which are effecive in one situation may not be effective in all others.

This declaration, petition and pledge calls for people to fully actualise their potentials for reflexivity and rationality to strive to find the most effective means of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in each situation, and to constantly challenge, criticise, question or interrogate these means (and themselves/each other), rationally and empirically verifying everything as far as possible, to ensure that we are constantly striving to find the most effective ways of doing this; all people must fully actualise their potentials for reflexivity when evaluating the means which they and each other use, and be open to being questioned and challenged, to always try to find the most effective means for others and themselves (for others and therefore for themselves, or for themselves and therefore for others).  It may not be possible to know or predict exactly what courses of action will be most effective, but with our potentials for reflexivity and rationality, and abilities to rationally and empirically verify things, we can obviously work out that certain courses of action are more likely to be effective than others.  And while certain courses of action are being actualised, we can obviously empirically and rationally verify and assess how effective they are or how effectively they’re working, and change them if necessary in ways which we can verify to be more likely to work more effectively.

So this ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge isn’t to prescribe particular means or solutions, and isn’t to impose anything on anyone or to harm anyone, as by definition, it’s to stop anyone from imposing anything on anyone else or harming anyone else, and to ensure people have autonomy, sovereignty, self-determination and agency, insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy, sovereignty, self-determination and agency, and as long as people are fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, so again, no-one should feel threatened by this.  Partly because there are enough resources accumulated in human society to provide for the needs of all of humankind if people just consume the amounts which are enough to provide for their needs (which are therefore enough to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment), and to maintain and maximise their potential to maximise benefit for others/each other, it’s possible to find solutions which work for everyone/each other and which address or take into account everyone’s needs, and there’s no need for different people’s solutions to conflict with or obstruct anyone else’s; there’s no need for any people or groups of people to compete with each other or harm each other in order for any people or groups of people to implement the most effective ways to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment; and there’s no need for anyone to impose anything on anyone else, or to obstruct any one else’s autonomy (insofar as it doesn’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy), in order for people to maximise benefit for themselves.  One underlying similarity which all the different means which different people use, in different contexts and situations, possibly all have to have in common (if benefit is to be maximised most effectively or if all people are to have autonomy insofar as it doesn’t obstruct anyone else’s) is that the primary intention must be to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people (using whatever means are most effective for that in each context), with the subsequent benefit to themselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product.

It’s obviously necessary for all people to acknowledge, encourage, allow for and tolerate everyone’s diversity, and the diversity of the different means people will need to use in different contexts, cultures and situations, in order for people to be able to take the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, each other or everyone in all different contexts; without true diversity of people (or acknowledgment, encouragement and tolerance of everyone’s diversity), people will be unable to find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for others and themselves (for everyone) in all the different the contexts and situations which different people are in; for there to be true unity, people obviously must be taking the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone and each other (which has to involve acknowledging how different people in different contexts and situations will need to use different means and solutions), so there needs to be diversity of people (or true acknowledgement, encouragement and tolerance of everyone’s diversity) for there to be true unity; without true unity, people may not be motivated to take the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone, and so may not be motiviated to recognise that different means and solutions are needed in different contexts and situations, or may not be motivated to ensure all people have autonomy to find their own solutions insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to do the same, so there needs to be unity for there to be true diversity of people (or true acknowledgment, encouragement and tolerance of diversity).  People uniting to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways therefore can’t involve imposing anything on anyone, as this true unity for this purpose obviously must involve people being motivated to ensure that all people have autonomy to find the most effective ways in their own contexts and situations to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or others and themselves; it’s necessary for people to acknowledge and encourage diversity in order for people to be able to unite to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

As well as how the current levels of action to fight suffering and injustice aren’t enough to fight even the current levels of suffering and injustice (let alone the even worse amounts that will be caused if the problems with the current structuring aren’t dealt with), the main ways and means which are currently made most available to use to fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring, aren’t enough on their own (partly as they don’t address those problems with the current structuring enough, or address the underlying structural or systemic causes of all the suffering and injustice enough); more people obviously need to find and use more other ways and means to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice more effectively, and to deal with the structural causes of the problems; we can possibly only find the most effective ways and means to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone or each other together, if spaces and environments which allow free thought and communication are made in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for people to come together to collectively work out the most effective ways and means to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (as well as if there is this unity in diversity, and this diversity in unity, or if all people unite to do this and make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways).

People obviously need to have freedom of speech or expression, as well as freedom of thought and behaviour (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else), in order to be able to voice, communicate or express to enough of the people what action needs to be taken, or what action they need to be free to take, in order to provide for their needs (and others’) most effectively in their contexts or situations, or to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively in their contexts and situations, for themselves and others (insofar as this doesn’t obstruct the action anyone else needs to take in their contexts), and other people obviously need to be able to learn about this to take any necessary action; if some people are being harmed (by other people or by other forces or factors), the people being harmed obviously need to have freedom of speech or expression in order to expose to enough people the harm that’s being done to them (or the causes of that harm), to ensure that this harm is stopped (and other people obviously again need to be able to learn about this harm to be able to work with the people being harmed to find the most effective ways to stop the harm); if people don’t have this freedom of speech and expression, or are denied access to them, obviously action that’s necessary to fight any suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for themselves and others in the most effective ways, may not be able to be taken (by them or others), and more harm obviously may be caused.  So in order to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, all people need to have freedom of speech or expression (as well as freedom of thought and behaviour) insofar as people don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else.  In order for all people to be motivated to find out what action needs to be taken in order to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for all other people, everyone or each other (or what action all other people need to be free to take to do this for themselves) in all the different human contexts and situations, they again obviously need to be motivated to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; if people aren’t motivated to fight the harm and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, then they obviously may not be motivated to find out what from other people what action needs to be taken for these purposes, or may deny other people access to the means to voice, communicate or express this to enough people, so that harm can obviously be caused as a result.  So in order to ensure that all people have freedom of speech or expression (as well as freedom of thought and behaviour) insofar as people don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else, people need to be motivated to fight the harm and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; so influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, like media and education systems (as well as all people / each other), need to motivate people to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways in order to ensure all people have freedom of speech and expression (as well as freedom of thought and behaviour), or in order for all people to be motivated to ensure all people have these freedoms, or in order for all people to be motivated not to deny anyone access to these freedoms (in similar ways to how all people need to be motivated to fight the harm and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways in order for all people to ensure that all other people or each other, have self-determination and autonomy to find the most effective ways to fight harm and maximise benefit in their own contexts and situations, insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to do the same).  In order for influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, like media and education systems (as well as all people / each other), to prioritise ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression (or to prioritise motivating people to ensure that all people have freedom of speech or expression), they need to prioritise motivating people to fight the harm and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways.

And in order for all people to be able to unite to make it the priority of human society to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and in order to make the ideological structural changes of values and aspirations which are necessary for this to happen), it would obviously be incredibly useful if influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, like the media and education systems (as well as all people / each other), were to prioritise motivating all people:

   – to do this to fight the suffering and injustice (including the structural causes of the problems) and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, in all different contexts and situations (and therefore to also prioritise motivating all people to ensure that all people have freedom of speech or expression, as well as thought and behaviour, insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else)…

   – to fully actualise their potentials for reflexivity and rationality to find the most effective ways to do this.

And in order to motivate people to do all this to fight harm and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, it could be useful for influences on people’s thought and behaviour, like media and education systems (as well as all people / each other), to show all people all the other benefits this action can bring to everyone’s lives, or show how this movement and action can maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (and benefit all people far more effectively than they are benefited within the current structuring), in order to help in enabling people to harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to maximise benefit for others as well as themselves; it would also be incredibly useful for this if influences on people’s thought and behaviour like media and education systems (as well as all people / each other) also helped make these spaces which enable free thought and communication for people to be able to come together to collectively work out exactly how to do this, starting to move these dialectics in the direction of making it the priority of human society to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, or to ensure all people have autonomy and self-determination insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy and self-determination.

        Within the current structuring of human society, some people obviously make decisions about, and have control over what is promoted, publicised and popularised most using influences on people’s thought, behaviour, consciousness, values and aspirations, like media and education systems, which have most influence on the most people with more excess resources and power (as well as others), and what isn’t; what is promoted, publicised and popularised most within the current structuring through these influences like media and education systems which have the most influence, is obviously only what certain people have decided to have promoted, publicised and popularised most through them.  People who have the amounts of excess resources and power which enable them to decide within the current structuring what is promoted, publicised and popularised most using these influences like media and education systems (which have the most influence on the most people with more excess resources and power, as well as others), are also obviously misled or coerced (like other people within this current structuring) into believing the lies that they need to behave in ways which at least instrumentally harm other people (and to maintain the current structuring of society which allows them to retain their excess resources and power, accumulate more, and continue other harmful behaviours), in order to maximise benefit for themselves; partly as a result of this, they decide to use these influences like media and education systems which have the most influence on the most people, to promote, publicise and popularise most that which misleads or coerces people into believing they also need to continue to think and behave in ways which perpetuate this current structuring (and not change this structuring), be in harmful competition with each other, and at least instrumentally harm other people in other ways, in order to maximise benefit for themselves; partly as another result of this, they decide not to use these influences (like media and education systems which the most influence on the most people) to let many other people express what action needs to be taken (or what action they need to be free to take) in order to provide for their needs and others’, to fight suffering and injustice for themselves and others, and to maximise benefit for themselves and others, in the most effective ways, in their own contexts; many people within the current structuring are obviously denied enough opportunity to express to enough people with enough power and resources (as well as others), what action needs to be taken (or what action they need to be free to take) in order to provide for their needs and others’, to fight suffering and injustice for themselves and others, and to maximise benefit for themselves and others in the most effective ways (in their own contexts), for enough action to be taken to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; or, many people within the current structuring are denied the freedom of speech or expression that would be enough for them to express to enough people with enough resources and power (as well as others) what action needs to be taken (or what action they need to be free to take) to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for themselves and others in the most effective ways, in their own contexts (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else), in order for enough action to be taken to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; many people within the current structuring are denied the freedom of speech or expression which is needed to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in all the different contexts in the most effective ways (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else).  That which is promoted, publicised and popularised most using these influences like media and education systems with the most influence on the most people within the current structuring, is presented as being impartial and objective, but is obviously merely that which some people with more excess resources and power want to be promoted, publicised and popularised most, as a result of how they are misled or coerced into believing the lies that they need to maintain the current harmful structuring and behaviour in order to maximise benefit for themselves, and that obstructs the freedom of speech or expression (of many other people) which is needed to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in all the different contexts in the most effective ways (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else).

So another purpose of this ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge is to:

   – encourage people who control these influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness (like media and education systems which have the most influence on the most people), to also acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways to benefit themselves are to benefit others, etc, and therefore encourage them to use the power and resources they have to decide or control what is promoted, publicised and popularised most (using these influences like media and education systems which have the most influence on the most people within the current structuring), to benefit people and fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways;

    – call on them to prioritise motivating people to ensure that all people have freedom of speech and expression (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else), and therefore to prioritise motivating people to fight the suffering and injustice and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways;

     – encourage them to see that using their power and resources (and these influences like media and education systems which have the most influence on the most people) for these purposes could benefit them far more effectively than using them in the ways they do now within the current structuring;

      – call on them to prioritise motivating people to improve the current structuring to make it the priority of human society to fight the harm and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, so that all people have freedom of speech or expression to express to enough people (or each other and everyone) what action is needed to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in all the different contexts in the most effective ways (or so that eventually, all people will have equal freedom to use and control means of communication or influences like media and education systems which have the most influence on the most people, to express what action needs to be taken, or what action they need to be free to take, in order to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways in all the different contexts) – to ensure that all people can fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, each other, or everyone, in the most effective ways;

   – call on them to help make spaces in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for people to work out collectively the most effective ways of doing this to make it the priority of human society to fight harm and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways;

        Many people have obviously already worked out viable ways to end many of the causes of the suffering and injustice in the world, and with the vast intelligence, creativity and imagination (and other potential and ability) which humankind has, people can potentially work out and implement ways to end all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, if enough of people’s energy and time, and enough of the resources accumulated in human society, are made available for people to use to work out and implement such solutions.  But within the current structuring, obviously not enough of people’s energy and time, and not enough of the resources accumulated in human society, are made available to be used to implement or actualise solutions which people have already worked out (or to promote, publicise and popularise these existing solutions, to ensure that enough people learn of them, etc); and not enough of people’s energy, time, intelligence, creativity and imagination (and other potential and ability), as well as not enough of the resources accumulated in human society, are freed up or made available for people to work out solutions which still need to be worked out, and not enough space is made for people to do this.  Partly because many people who have enough resources and power to implement existing solutions or to make enough space for people to work out solutions which still need to be worked out, are, like so many other people, misled and coerced into believing that they need to be able to harm others at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally (in ways like maintaining their ability to have excess resources and power, and maintaining the current structuring which allows them to do this, etc), in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they prevent enough of people’s energy, time, intelligence, creativity and imagination (and other potential and ability), and enough of resources, from being freed up or made available for these purposes.  So again, another purpose of this PeopleUnite declaration, petition and pledge, is to encourage these people with these amounts of excess resources and power to

–  acknowledge and act on the evidence that they could benefit themselves far more effectively if they used their excess resources and power to benefit other people, fight the harm, and so to free up or make enough of people’s energy, time, intelligence, creativity and imagination (and other potential and ability), and enough resources, available, for people to be able to implement existing solutions (as well as publicising, promoting and popularising them), and to work out any solutions which still need to be worked out (and then to implement and publicise these new solutions, etc)…

   – to see these improvements are obviously for everyone’s benefit including their own, by definition, as the purpose of these improvements is to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, so that no-one should feel threatened by this, and so that people with these amounts of excess resources and power (and all others) are motivated to make space for people to work out and implement all the necessary solutions, to make the necessary improvements to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…

The more that people are motivated to make these improvements by seeing how much these improvements can benefit them, the more they are motivated to show other people the benefits these improvements can bring these other people, as it motivates these other people to help make these improvements, which therefore benefits themselves (the first people), as it benefits other people in the most effective ways (which is the most effective way to benefit themselves).  And the more these other people are motivated to make these improvements by seeing how much these improvements can benefit them, the more they are motivated to show more other people in turn the benefits these improvements can bring these more other people, and so on, so that this can become self-generating too, like the benefit it can create…  In order for people find and actualise ways to make it the priority of human society to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, people obviously need to have the will, intention and motivation to do this, and this is partly about generating that will, intention and motivation; the only way in which all the necessary solutions are going to be worked out and implemented is obviously if pretty much all people work them out and implement them, and in order for people to do this, they obviously need to have the will, intention and motivation to do this, as well as how people obviously need to have their energy, time, intelligence, imagination and creativity freed up or made available for them to do this, and to have enough resources made available for them to use to do this; this again is also partly about making that space for people to do this, or making space to work out how to make more of that space for all this, as the more space it makes or generates for this, the more awareness and consciousness it raises of how much benefit it can bring for people themselves and everyone, and so the more motivation, will and intention it creates or generates amongst people for them to create more space again for all this amongst more other people, raising awareness in those other people about the benefits it can bring to them and everyone, therefore generating more intention, motivation and will in them to make increasing amounts of space for this, and so on, generating critical masses to multiply itself further, so that again this can become self-generating and self-multiplying, like all the benefit it can bring…

        And another reason why the ‘pledge’ aspect of this is needed, is so that people can’t shirk responsibility to take as much action as they can to fight all the different causes of the harm and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, while we are still in the process of trying to make these improvements to make it the priority of human society to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (or so that people can’t merely wait for these improvement to be made by other people); we possibly can’t stop fighting other causes of harm on other more surface levels of causation while we’re trying to make these improvements to make all this the priority of human society; we or all people always have to be striving to be taking the most effective action to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone now and in future generations in the most effective ways, and we or all people have to be continually striving to be taking this most effective action in this direction of making it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, in order to ever get far enough…

        This is only a brief or summarised outline of these ideas and of what this is about, in simple terms, and if you have questions, comments, criticisms or suggestions of ways this could be improved, or suggestions of courses of action which would be more effective in making it the priority of human society to fight the harm and to maximise benefit in the most effective ways (which take into account the issues this raises, etc), please get in touch, as the purpose of this is just to do what is most beneficial for humankind and the world, so it would be amazing to find out about anything that could make this more effective, or be more effective and beneficial.

Thank you very much.

All the very best,

peopleunite@peopleunite.net

Please sign the PeopleUnite declaration, petition and pledge (by filling in your name and

email address in the form just below), and please share it with others, if:

– you agree that we should make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including the social structural causes of the problems) and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified to be most effective), or to ensure all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy; and you call for all people to unite to make all of that the priority of human society…;

– you call for all people to fully actualise their rational and reflexive potentials to find these ways which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone (and to make that the priority of human society), and you call for all people to ensure everyone has autonomy to find the most effective ways of doing that in their own contexts, insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy to do the same…;

– you call for all people to acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways for people to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, can be to benefit other people or each other, develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, and to fight the suffering and injustice in the world in the most effective ways, so that all people can harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for each other or everyone in the most effective ways (and to make that the priority of human society)…; though in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone most effectively, people should possibly always benefit other people primarily because it benefits those other people, not because it benefits themselves, and any benefit to themselves should possibly only be intended to be a secondary side effect…;

– you call for all people who control all influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, such as mass media and mass education systems, and all people, to prioritise ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression (with equal access to the control of all these influences) insofar as people don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else, and therefore to prioritise motivating all people to fight all the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, including by prioritising exposing and publicising to all people:

                 • how this action or behaviour to fight all the suffering and injustice in the world (and to ensure all people have freedom speech and expression…) in the most effective ways can bring far more effective ways for everyone to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, as outlined above…;

                 • what can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the causes of the all the different amounts of suffering and injustice in the world (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of all the different amounts of suffering and injustice in the world), or exposing and publicising to all people what can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to cause (to all different extents) situations in which not everyone has freedom of speech and expression (insofar as they don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else)…;

                 • how much suffering and injustice can be empirically and rationally verified to be caused and allowed within and by the current social (including political, economic and ideological) structuring of human society (and by what behaviours), including how much worse human suffering (and even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as millions of other species) will be caused (and how quickly) by certain behaviours of many people within the current structuring (unless we can change those behaviours and that structuring) which are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind cannot survive without (and how little time humankind has to save these ecosystems and environments which humans can’t survive without)…;

                 • what can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be most effective ways of fighting all the different causes and amounts of the suffering and injustice in the world and of maximising benefit for everyone…;

                 • how all the arguments that it’s not possible to do all this (to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) all rely on premises that can’t be proven…;

– again because of calling all these people who control all these influences, such as mass media and mass education systems, and all people, to prioritise ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression insofar as people don’t obstruct the same freedoms of anyone else, you therefore also call these people, and all people, to prioritise helping make enough spaces in the mainstreams of or all of human society for all people to work out collectively the most effective ways to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of the harm and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, so we can actually make this happen…;

– you’ll take as much action as you can to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…

(  I’ve been lucky enough to be able to do some work for quite a few different charities and activist groups for quite a few years, trying to fight various different causes of suffering and injustice, such as poverty and cancer (and others), and doing that made me think more about how something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society); though I initially became a lot more motivated to work on something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, following stuff like when I had brain cancer when I was a child and teenager (and had to have chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, and all that), and following when I was about nine years old when my Mum died; and I know I haven’t been through anywhere near as much as most people in the world, such as people who’ve been forced into extreme poverty and conflict (and so many others), but going through a bit of pain due to those things and some other stuff made me think a lot more about things like how doing as much as possible to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to benefit or help people in need is all that really matters, or at least is obviously what matters most; and as I got a bit better from the cancer I had and got some more freedom to do this kind of thing, I tried to help out more with as much as possible of the charity work I came across, and volunteered for as many different charities as I could, fighting as many different causes of human suffering and injustice as I could, ranging from cancer and meningitis to poverty and ecocide (and others).  In the volunteering I was involved in for a few years when I was around twenty years old, I raised around £10,000 a year for various charities through collecting donations with a charity bucket on the streets, helped raise more money through helping organise charity fundraising gigs and events, got loads of people to sign charity petitions on the streets, did stuff to help out homeless people, and worked on various charity/activist campaigns and awareness-raising projects (as well as doing various other kinds of charity/activist work); but the type of cancer that I had (as well as the types and amounts of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, etc, that I had) left me with fairly serious lifelong medical problems which can put me in a life-threatening situation within a couple of days unless I spend many hours every day doing stuff to deal with those medical problems or to keep them in check, which infuriated me a massive amount mainly because, as a result of that medical stuff, I wasn’t able to do anywhere near as much charity or activist work (or work to fight suffering and injustice and to help or benefit people as much as possible…) as I would like; there are obviously so many different causes of suffering and injustice that it can seem impossible to eliminate or fight all of them, or there’s obviously so much suffering and injustice in the world that it can seem impossible to eliminate or fight all of that; for a few years I had been thinking more anyway about stuff like how, partly because there are so many different causes of suffering and injustice in the world which are so complex and varied (or partly because there’s so much suffering and injustice in the world generally), and also partly because the structural, systemic and behavioural causes of so much suffering and injustice are so ingrained, pervasive and extensive (reaching into nearly all areas and aspects of human life and society), as long as only such comparatively small numbers of people are able to do enough to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, etc, we’re obviously never going to get far enough…; and I guess it had taken me a while to work out stuff like how, while the means of fighting suffering and injustice which are publicised and promoted most (or which are made most available and easy to access and use) within the current structuring of human society (combined with the levels or amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring…), are and have been effective in some areas and ways according to some criteria, those forms of action (combined (and linked) with those levels or amounts of action), on their own: – obviously don’t effectively address the situation in the current structuring (which obviously constitutes a cause of suffering and injustice themselves on another level of causation) in which only such comparatively small numbers of people to able to do enough to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available to be used to do that (so that those forms and amounts of action on their own obviously don’t effectively generate better or greater levels or amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously don’t effectively generate enough action to do that, or don’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do that)…; – obviously don’t effectively stop so many people from behaving and living in ways which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice, or obviously don’t effectively address or change other aspects of the current structuring (or particular systems, structures and behaviours (or ways of thinking, behaving and relating to people and the world) within the current overall structuring of human society) which cause so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways, and which obviously need to be overcome in order to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice and in maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways)…; – obviously aren’t sufficient to fight the current amounts of suffering and injustice in the world, let alone the far worse amounts of human suffering and injustice that will be caused (according to peer-reviewed science) by behaviours within the current structuring which, for example, are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments that humankind can’t survive without (unless far more action, and far more effective action, is taken to change those behaviours)…; – probably aren’t sufficient on their own to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of up to over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those behaviours (which are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments that humankind can’t survive without)  unless far more action (and far more effective action) is taken to change those behaviours… . And this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge again obviously isn’t a perfect idea, and obviously so many different forms of action are needed, but hopefully what’s written on the pages on this site gives a bit of an outline of some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for addressing problems like those (and other problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned on this site), for breaking down and overcoming some of the main barriers or obstacles in the current structuring which prevent enough from being done to fight all the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, or for generating far better or greater levels or amounts of action to fight all suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone (or for making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways)… .  I know I might be totally wrong about all this, and if you have ideas (which take into account and address all the issues and problems that are mentioned on the pages of this site, that need to be overcome) which could be more effective in making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, I would be really grateful if you could get in touch and let me know, as all I want to do is to do what’s most beneficial for all people and the world.  Partly in case I am totally wrong about all this, I’m still doing other kinds of charity/activist work alongside working on this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge’, though it’s fairly obvious that, till the barriers or obstacles and problems (and structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) like those which are mentioned on the pages of this site (and which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge aims to address) are overcome, we’ll never get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice and in maximising benefit for everyone, so I feel I have to also try something like this (but again, seriously, if you have ideas (which take into account or address all the issues and problems mentioned in the text on this site) which could be more effective in all of that, please get in touch and let me know, as again all I want to do is to do what’s best for all people and the world).  Because the lifelong medical problems, which the type of cancer that I had (and the types and doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, etc, that I had) left me with, can still quickly put me into a life-threatening situation unless I spend many hours every day doing stuff to deal with those problems (which still infuriates me more than I can put into words, mainly because those problems still stop me from doing anywhere near as much charity and activist work (or work to fight suffering and injustice and to benefit or help people as much as possible…), as I would like), and also because there’s obviously always so much other charity/activist work that needs to be done, etc, I haven’t been able to put anywhere near as much time and energy into working on this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge as I would like; one of the results of that is that the text on the pages of this website obviously is unfinished and needs so much editing and other work to be done on it; it’s been quite a few years since I wrote a lot of the text on these different pages, and though I would really like to at some point, I’ve never had time or energy to read through all of the text on this website from the beginning to end, to check it and edit it (as again there’s always so much different work that needs to be done which seems more important and urgent, etc), so if you read any of it and find mistakes or inconsistencies, etc, please get in touch and let me know. (And again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously isn’t a perfect idea anyway, and so many different forms of action are obviously needed).  I know I have a massive amount to learn, and I know I’m a deeply flawed and hypocritical person, but that shouldn’t detract from or devalue the idea of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, or what it’s about and what it’s for, etc (which again is just making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and calling for all people to unite in diversity to do that…).  Again no one should feel threatened by any of this, as its purpose is obviously just to benefit everyone as much as possible…  )

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This is to tell you about something which you should hopefully support if you agree that massive amounts more need to be done to fight the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including that which you face), and that massive amounts more need to be done to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

        This obviously supports and encourages all effective action to fight all the different causes of fight suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, but highlights how as long as only such small numbers of people are able to do enough to fight the different causes suffering and injustice (including the underlying ideological, political and economic structural causes of all the problems), we’re

   – obviously never going to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice, or in maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone,

   – probably never going to be able to end massive causes of human suffering and injustice such as poverty, conflict or ecocide,

   – probably never going to be able to do enough to help people suffering from illnesses such as cancer or so many others, or to cure or prevent such illnesses

   – not going to be able to prevent even worse amounts of human suffering and injustice from being caused by people irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without

   – never going to be able to do enough to prevent people from harming each other in interpersonal or social interaction and relationships, as well as on macro levels though global structural processes.

And obviously linked to that is how as long as only such small amounts of the resources in the world are made available to be used to fight the suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, we’re never going to get far enough.

Or until all people can unite to make it the priority of human society and all people to fight the different causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, we’re never going to get far enough.

        There’s so much psychological, sociological and other research and evidence to show that the most effective ways for people to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment, can be for people to develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, benefit other people or each other, and fight suffering and injustice, or to seek/aim to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people and each other; possibly obviously people should benefit other people primarily because it benefits other people, with the resulting benefit to the self only being intended to be a secondary side-effect, if benefit is to be maximised most effectively for everyone, but it could enable people to get far further in fighting suffering and injustice and in maximising benefit for everyone, if people can acknowledge and act on this evidence, so that people can harness drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves (or ourselves) to fight suffering and injustice, maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people and each other, or benefit other people and each other, and develop better human relationships, community and solidarity.

        Within the current structuring of human society, people are coerced through many disguised/concealed or overt ways into believing that in order to benefit themselves, they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people, and that for some people to be benefited, other people need to be harmed. And so within the current structuring, while there are many people who do and give so much to benefit other people, humankind and the world, people do at least partly unintentionally behave in ways which at least instrumentally harm other people, on macro or micro levels, in many disguised/concealed or overt ways, in personal and social interaction and relationships and through global structural processes.

        And within the current structuring of human society, while again there are many people who do and give so much to benefit other people, humankind and the world, people are coerced into spending so much of their time and energy, doing jobs and engaging in ways of living and behaving which wouldn’t be necessary in other possible structurings, which don’t effectively bring benefit to people doing these jobs of behaving and living in these ways, or other people, and which don’t effectively fight suffering and injustice or maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, just to provide for themselves and their families and pay bills, and all that. And so within the current structuring of human society, people don’t have time or energy to take enough effective action to fight suffering and injustice for themselves, other people, each other, or everyone, or to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, other people, each other, or everyone. And these jobs and ways of living and behaving which people are coerced into spending so much of their time or energy on within the current structuring, at least instrumentally fuel processes, systems or structures which at least instrumentally harm other people, who may be geographically very distant or close by, on macro or micro levels, in many disguised or overt ways, such as through taking resources from other people who can’t survive without those resources, or destroying or poisoning those resources, or through forcing people to do things which are harmful to them or others in order for them to try and survive, as well as not effectively bringing benefit to people engaging in these jobs and ways of living and behaving.

        When people take action to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for other people, and fight suffering and injustice which other people face, or to benefit other people, it can obviously generate feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, or benefit, within themselves, as well as obviously causing those other people to be benefited; and it can obviously motivate those other people to reciprocate that beneficial behaviour to people who benefited them as well as to other people, so that feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, or benefit, are also generated within those other people who are reciprocating that beneficial behaviour, as well as causing benefit to people who benefited them and any other people who they’re now benefiting, which in turn can motivate more other people to reproduce more beneficial behaviour, generating feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment within themselves too, and so on, so that beneficial behaviour motivates and generates more beneficial behaviour and more benefit to people and within people, or benefit increases and multiplies itself, and can be self-generating and self-multiplying; so again the most effective ways for people to fight the suffering and injustice which they themselves face, and to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, or to benefit themselves, can obviously be for people to seek to also fight the suffering and injustice which other people face, for each other, and to maximise other people’s well-being, happiness and fulfilment, for each other, or to benefit other people or each other;

and so everyone’s efforts and action to fight the suffering and injustice they each face, and to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, can contribute to everyone else’s efforts and action to do the same, and there’s not even any need for people to harm others in order to benefit themselves.

It’s possible for people to find solutions or ways to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment which work for everyone, and there is absolutely no need for minorities, majorities, or anyone to be harmed in order to benefit other people. Or, it’s possible for people to find solutions or ways to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment, which don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to find their own solutions or ways to fight suffering and injustice and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment.

        All the arguments that we can’t restructure or improve the political, economic and ideological structuring of human society around all these kinds of beneficial behaviour and make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s far more evidence to refute these negative arguments than there is to prop them up. No-one should feel threatened by this, as its purpose is to maximise benefit for everyone.

        People need to have autonomy to find their own ways or means of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways, insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to do the same, and people need to fully actualise their rational and reflexive potentials, including by empirically, rationally and reflexively verifying everything, in order to find the most effective means or ways of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone. The diversity and complexity of different human situations, contexts and cultures means that the most effective means or ways of fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in each particular human situation, context and culture may be different to the means or ways which are the most effective in fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in other human situations, contexts and cultures, so in order for people to be able to find the most effective means, people need to ensure that all people have complete autonomy and freedom of thought, speech and behaviour, insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to do the same, or to ensure that people don’t impose things on other people, so that all people can find the most effective means of fighting suffering and injustice for themselves, each other, others and everyone, and of maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, each other, others and everyone, in each human situation, context and culture. Fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways means or requires ensuring all people have this autonomy and self-determination, insofar as people don’t obstruct other people’s autonomy and self-determination.  And ensuring that people have this autonomy insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy means fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in most effective ways. Preventing or obstructing this autonomy that doesn’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy can cause suffering and injustice in itself.  And fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways means or requires people fully actualising rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this as well as ensuring all people have this autonomy.  Not fully actualising rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this, or preventing people from fully actualising rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this, is obviously more likely to lead to people taking action which is ineffective in fighting suffering and injustice, and which therefore at least instrumentally also cause suffering and injustice.

        In order to ensure all people to have this autonomy insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy, or in order to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, we need influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values and aspirations, such as media and educations systems, as well as people, to prioritise motivating people to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, to fully actualise rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this, and to ensure all people have this autonomy to do this insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy; in order for influences on people’s thought and behaviour, such as media and education systems, as well as groups, people or all of human society, to be truly democratic and to enable truly free speech, thought and behaviour, they need to prioritise motivating people to ensure that all people have this autonomy insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy, and that no-one imposes on others, which means they need to prioritise motivating people to prioritise fighting suffering and injustice and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways, and to fully actualise rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this.

        And to prioritise motivating people to prioritise fighting suffering and injustice maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways, they would possibly need to show all these other benefits that this action to fight suffering and injustice and to benefit others can bring to everyone’s own lives, as well as its importance.

        We need people who control these influences to be motivated to prioritise using these influences to motivate people to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone, and so we possibly need these people as well to also be influenced by, and to acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways for people to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment can be to participate as much as possible in the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, so that they see the benefits prioritising using these influences for this can bring to their own lives, and are motivated more to prioritise using these influences for this, and to take the most effective action to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone; as all people can possibly influence people to varying extents, all people need to prioritise using their influence as much as possible to motivate people to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, as well as taking the most effective action themselves to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone; so all people possibly need to acknowledge and act on this evidence of the benefits prioritising using their influence for this and taking this action for this can bring to themselves as well as others and everyone, to motivate themselves to prioritise using their influence to motivate people to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and to take the most effective action themselves to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for everyone, and therefore to influence other people or each other to acknowledge and act on this evidence to motivate others to do the same, and so on.

        Partly because the current structuring of human society coerces people into believing that they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, it

– prevents enough of the resources in the world from being made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or from being used for this,

– prevents enough people from being able to use enough of their energy and time to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, including themselves, or prevents enough people from being able to take enough action for this,

– causes people’s energy and time, as well as resources, to be used to continue and perpetuate ways of living and behaving, as well as jobs, which don’t benefit people’s selves or others effectively, and don’t fight suffering and injustice effectively, and which at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice in many other disguised/concealed or overt ways on macro and micro levels.

So possibly almost all the different causes of human-induced suffering and injustice on certain levels of causation, such as poverty, conflict, ecocide, or the lack of sufficient action to prevent or cure illnesses such as cancer, have very similar structural causes on other levels of causation, which are linked to these ways in which human society is currently structured.

So within this current structuring of human society, because only such small amounts of the resources in the world are made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice, and because only such small numbers of people are able to take enough action to fight suffering and injustice, if people are only fighting individual causes of suffering and injustice on one level of causation, such as poverty or cancer, without changing this structuring, they’re also stopping resources, human time and energy from being used to fight other causes of suffering and injustice on those levels of causation; and within the current structuring of human society, because people are coerced into believing that they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, if people are only fighting one cause of suffering and injustice on one level of causation, such as poverty or cancer, without changing this structuring, they’re not stopping people from causing more suffering and injustice in other areas or ways, or from creating other causes of suffering and injustice, on similar levels of causation, in order to benefit themselves.

So in order to fight possibly almost every cause of suffering and injustice on certain levels of causation, like poverty or cancer, in the most effective ways, people need to fight these underlying structural causes of all the different causes of suffering and injustice on other levels of causation, or to change this current structuring of human society; until people change that structuring which coerces people into believing that they need to at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, which prevents enough of the resources in the world from being made available to be used to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, which prevents enough people from being able to use enough of their energy and time to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, including themselves, or prevents enough people from being able to take enough action for this, and which causes people’s energy and time, as well as resources, to be used to continue and perpetuate ways of living and behaving, as well as jobs, which don’t benefit people’s selves or others effectively, and don’t fight suffering and injustice effectively, and which at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice in many other disguised/concealed or overt ways on macro and micro levels, we’ll never get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice on certain levels of causation, such as poverty, conflict or cancer; till we change that structuring and make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice (including all the different causes of it), and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, we’ll never be able to get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice and in maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

And in order to change this current structuring, people obviously need to make political and economic structural improvements, but people also need to make these ideological structural improvements or changes of values, aspirations, consciousness and changes in ways of thinking and behaving, so that people can acknowledge and act on the importance of making these changes as well as on all these benefits they will bring to everyone’s lives, in order to maximise the will, intention and motivation in people or human society and everyone to make these changes and make it the priority of human society and everyone to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

So while a diversity of tactics is required in order to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways in different human contexts, cultures and situations, there might be some similarities and common ground in some of the kinds of action that need to be taken, partly as so much of the suffering and injustice in the world has such similar structural and behavioural causes.

        In order for influences on people’s thought and behaviour, such as media or educations systems (as well as people or each other) to be truly democratic and to enable truly free speech, thought and behaviour, and to ensure all people have this necessary autonomy, insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy, they need to communicate and circulate that which is most beneficial for everyone, that which enables people to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and that which ensures people can have this autonomy to find ways to do this insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s ability to do this. And so they possibly need to circulate and communicate what these underlying structural and behavioural causes of the suffering and injustice are, and possible means or ways which people can rationally, reflexively and empirically verify to be most effective ways to fight these structural and behavioural causes of all the suffering and injustice, as well as ensuring people rationally, reflexively and empirically verify all this themselves too; they should communicate and circulate all the information and ideas which people can rationally, reflexively and empirically verify to be necessary in order for people to find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, in each human context, culture and situation, to people in each context, culture and situation; and they must ensure all people can rationally, reflexively and empirically verify and control all of what these influences communicate and circulate, and everything, to always find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, as these influences are controlled by people, who must always be rationally, reflexively and empirically verifying everything to always find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or to find the most effective ways to use these influences in ways that most effectively influence people to verify all and find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or to find what it is most effective to communicate and circulate in order to most effectively influence people to verify all find the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

        The underlying ideological, political and economic structural causes of the suffering and injustice the world, are so extensive, engrained and pervasive, that people can possibly only change them if all people unite and mobilise together to change them and to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone. And we obviously need ways for people to be able to mobilise together and unite to do this, or a way for this unification and mobilisation to be facilitated.

        Pretty much everyone agrees we need to make these changes or improvements, to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, but people are coerced into believing that these changes are impossible, or that no-one else wants to make these changes (and people are coerced into believing these changes are impossible partly because they are coerced into believing that no-one else wants to make these changes). So that, hopefully with enough people showing each other their support for these ideas, or confirming to each other that they want to make these changes, it could overcome these obstacles, and help facilitate this mobilisation and unification of people, for people to make spaces in the mainstreams of or all of human society for people to be able to work out collectively how we can make these changes or improvements, and for all people to unite to actualise these changes and make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone.

A possible way for people to do these things is for people to sign this PeopleUnite declaration, petition and pledge, which you can do by filling in the form below, to confirm that

–       you agree that we should improve social structuring so that we can make it the absolute priority and primary aim of human society to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or to ensure all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy

–       you call for all people to unite to make these changes, to fully actualise their rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this (ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be the most effective ways of doing this), and to ensure all people have autonomy to find the most effective ways of doing this, insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy to do the same

–       you call for people who control all influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, such as media and education systems, and all people, to prioritise facilitating this autonomy or freedom of thought, speech, expression, communication and behaviour (insofar as it doesn’t obstruct the same autonomies of anyone else), and to therefore prioritise motivating people to fight suffering and injustice and the structural causes of the problems, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, including by showing how this action to fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways can bring far more effective ways for everyone to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment*

– you’ll take as much action as you can to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…

*We possibly need all people to acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways for people to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment, can be to benefit other people, develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, and to fight suffering and injustice, so that people can harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for others in the most effective ways (though people should possibly always benefit other people primarily because it benefits those other people, not because it benefits themselves, and any benefit to themselves should possibly only be intended to be a secondary side-effect), as well as being motivated to do this because it’s what’s most important, in order for all people be able to unite to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone…

(Or you can sign the ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge by emailing your name to people@peopleunite.net ).

This is obviously only an incredibly brief outline or summary of what this is about and the ideas involved in all this, or explanations and justifications for all this, and people can find more explanation and justification for all this, as well as elaboration on ideas involved in all this, by reading more on the peopleunite.net website.  Again, no-one should feel threatened by any of this, as its purpose is to maximise benefit for everyone. If you have questions, comments, criticisms or suggestions of how to improve this or how to take more effective action to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, please email peopleunite@peopleunite.net.

 

Thank you very much.

All the best,

 

 

Please sign the PeopleUnite declaration, petition and pledge, by filling in your name and

email address in the form just below, if

–       you agree that we should improve social structuring so that we can make it the absolute priority and primary aim of human society to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or to ensure all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy

–       you call for all people to unite to make these changes, to fully actualise their rational and reflexive potentials to find the most effective ways of doing this (ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be the most effective ways of doing this), and to ensure all people have autonomy to find the most effective ways of doing this, insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy to do the same

–       you call for people who control all influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, such as media and education systems, and all people, to prioritise facilitating this autonomy or freedom of thought, speech, expression, communication and behaviour (insofar as it doesn’t obstruct the same autonomies of anyone else), and to therefore prioritise motivating people to fight suffering and injustice and the structural causes of the problems, and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, including by showing how this action to fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways can bring far more effective ways for everyone to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment*

– you’ll take as much action as you can to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…

*We possibly need all people to acknowledge and act on the evidence that the most effective ways for people to maximise their well-being, happiness and fulfilment, can be to benefit other people, develop better human relationships, community and solidarity, and to fight suffering and injustice, so that people can harness their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to fight suffering and injustice and maximise benefit for others in the most effective ways (though people should possibly always benefit other people primarily because it benefits those other people, not because it benefits themselves, and any benefit to themselves should possibly only be intended to be a secondary side-effect), as well as being motivated to do this because it’s what’s most important, in order for all people be able to unite to make it the priority of human society to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone…

(Or again you can sign the ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge by emailing your name to people@peopleunite.net ).

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