It’s probably best to read all the text on the pages titled ‘some explanation’ and ‘is this too vague?’ on this site (as well as all the text in the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), 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 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 (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective)…, and making all of that the priority of human society… (or for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…), and the pieces of text on those pages are much shorter than the text on this page; but, though the text on this page still doesn’t go into all the ideas behind this or all the reasons for it, if you want more explanation and background about this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge than there is on those other pages, the text below hopefully gives a bit more of an outline of some more of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for those purposes mentioned above, though again it’s still just an outline of just some of the ideas behind this and still doesn’t go into that much detail in explaining ideas behind it (and again doesn’t go into all the ideas behind it or all of the reasons why something like it could be useful for those purposes mentioned above).  There are obviously many problems with this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge too, and it obviously has many limitations (some of those problems and limitations possibly being more obvious than others), and some of the problems with it and some of its limitations will be covered separately.  Obviously so many different kinds of action are needed in order for humankind to get far enough in 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 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 in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment 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 all of that (and all action to do all of that), or to help make enough more space for (or to generate) enough more action to do all of that, i.e. to help ensure that all of human society is primarily devoted to doing all of that (or to help make it the priority of human society to do all of 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 the aim to make 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, and a means to contribute to the aim to address, overcome and eliminate some particular underlying problems with or in the current structuring of human society 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;
– at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice in so many (other) ways;
– get in the way of all people uniting in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and overcoming and eliminating those particular underlying problems could make it so much easier to overcome and eliminate all the other problems or obstructions which get in the way of all people uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society).
Those particular underlying problems are obviously alluded to in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and the rest of the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for addressing, overcoming and eliminating some of those particular underlying problems which it could be useful for addressing, overcoming and eliminating (or the rest of the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…). And if there are more effective and faster ways of addressing, overcoming and eliminating those particular underlying problems with or in the current structuring, or if there are more effective and faster ways of bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (which take into account and deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), 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 particular underlying 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 (which again take into account and deal with all the issues raised on this site), then this would obviously support those ways instead of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge. The reason why the full text of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is as long as it is, is that in order for there to be true uniting in diversity (of all people) to truly make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, it could obviously be useful (or possibly necessary) for some ideas to be dealt with and elaborated on, and for certain other steps to be taken, to lay sufficient foundations for that uniting in diversity (of all people) to make all of that the priority of human society…; and the full text of this declaration, petition and pledge obviously doesn’t mention all the necessary ideas and steps specifically or individually, but the ideas it deals with hopefully lay sufficient foundations for all the necessary ideas to be dealt with, and the steps it implicitly calls for hopefully lay sufficient foundations for all the necessary steps to be taken; all the steps this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge implicitly calls for are aimed at being useful for (and possibly might be necessary for) bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… . People signing this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously doesn’t in itself constitute people actually uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society… (and again obviously so many different kinds of action are needed to do all of that), but again something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (with all the steps it implicitly calls for) could, as a whole, hopefully provide a useful step for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (and again the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why), but again if there are more effective and faster ways of doing that (which take into account and deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), this will obviously support those ways more than or 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 kinds 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… .  Depending on what levels of causation you’re defining causes of suffering and injustice on (and other similar factors), within the current structuring of human society no causes of suffering and injustice are addressed enough in the most effective ways (according to how, again, in order for ways of fighting suffering and injustice to be the most effective ways, they need to be ways which don’t cause other suffering and injustice even indirectly…); and again part of the purpose of this is to make enough 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), and to make enough space for enough action to fight all of those different causes of suffering and injustice (enough) in the most effective ways, 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 indirectly 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.
At various points in the text on this site (including in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge itself), certain ‘amounts’ of suffering and injustice, as well as certain ‘amounts’ of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, are referred to (along with, for example, the need to communicate how much worse the amounts of suffering and injustice will be if people can’t change certain social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough…), and there obviously may not be universally-understood units of measurement for amounts of suffering and injustice or for amounts of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, etc, but it’s obviously still potentially possible to communicate amounts of suffering and injustice or amounts of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, etc, in many different ways or different forms of language which different people can understand.
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 or bent 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.  And in case it’s not clear, in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, some phrases or clauses in the later parts of some sentences, which are written out in full near the beginning of the text, are replaced with ellipses in other sentences further on in the text (so that not so much more text is repeated).
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. 
The text on the pages of this website obviously needs a lot of editing, and is obviously incomplete along with being unfinished (for reasons which are mentioned near the end of the page on this site titled ‘some more explanation’, in the section in slightly smaller writing), or obviously needs so much more to be added to it, but hopefully what’s written on this site 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 pretty much all of what’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, pretty much all of what’s written on the pages of this site (which is fairly obvious) isn’t acknowledged and acted on enough.

        If you agree that generally massive amounts more need to be done to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world in the most effective ways (including any suffering and injustice you face), 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 overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective), together with ensuring (in the most effective ways) that 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 (so again you should hopefully support this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and call for all the rest of what’s written in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, as all the rest of what’s written in the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is just aimed at making it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways, together with ensuring (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy). 

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 (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (and the underlying social structural (including political, economic and ideological structural), systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) or to maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), humankind/we will:

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

   – probably never be able to overcome and eliminate or end such massive causes of human suffering and injustice as poverty, war or ecocide (in order to maximise benefit for everyone/humankind in the most effective ways);

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

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

   – probably never be able to do enough to stop people from harming each other in micro-level (or local-level) personal/interpersonal social interaction and relationships (as well as on macro levels, through 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 overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, humankind/we will never get far enough. 

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

        So many people obviously do and give so much to benefit or help other people and humankind, but within the current political, ideological and economic structuring of human society, obviously only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons) able or free to make enough of their energy, time, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill and talent, etc, available to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (for themselves, each other and everyone) or maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people/humankind (including themselves); 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 in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways.  All the arguments 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 within the current structuring, which cause, allow and perpetuate 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. 

While the means of fighting suffering and injustice which are publicised and promoted most within the current structuring of human society (linked 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 types of action (linked with those levels or amounts of action), on their own:

        – obviously don’t effectively address the problems in the current structuring which cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world to be (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (globally as well as locally) and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (so that those forms and amounts of action on their own obviously don’t effectively generate greater (enough) amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world or maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously don’t effectively generate enough action to do all of that, or don’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do all of that);

        – obviously don’t effectively stop so many people from behaving or living in ways which at least indirectly 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 (including ways of thinking 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 for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways);

        – obviously aren’t sufficient to overcome and eliminate or fight even 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 certain social structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough); 

        – probably aren’t sufficient to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough. 

So, linked with that, while so many people obviously show so much kindness and love within the current structuring of human society (by, for example, doing so much to fight suffering and injustice or to help people in need), that action which that kindness and love motivates people to take (within the current structuring), on its own, also:

        – obviously doesn’t effectively address the problems in the current structuring which cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world to be (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (globally as well as locally) and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (so that that action on its own obviously doesn’t effectively generate greater (enough) amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world or maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously doesn’t effectively generate enough action to do all of that, or doesn’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do all of that);

        – obviously doesn’t effectively stop so many people from behaving or living in ways which at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice, or obviously doesn’t effectively address or change other aspects of the current structuring (or particular systems, structures and behaviours (including ways of thinking 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 for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways); 

        – obviously isn’t sufficient to overcome and elimiate or fight even 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 certain social structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough); 

        – probably isn’t sufficient to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough. 

There’s so much evidence (for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc, and again there’s way too much to provide references for all of it), to show that when people consume bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live (or when people partake in and adopt lifestyles and activities which entail or consist in consuming those bigger amounts of and more types of resources), it doesn’t bring them/us well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit them/us) anywhere nearly as effectively as behaving or living in ways like the mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways which are outlined in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, as well as on the page titled ‘some explanation’ on this site (i.e. living or behaving in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people (or each other) as much as is potentially possible… in ways which again can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective ways (without benefiting any person, people or group(s) at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one even instrumentally causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on) and forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible… in those most effective ways (in harmony (as far as is potentially possible…) with the natural world (or the rest of it), as well as each other), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other) in those most effective ways…), which, by definition, are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves or each other and everyone); there’s so much evidence (again, for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc…), to show that when people consume bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live (or when people partake in and adopt lifestyles and activities which entail or consist in consuming those bigger amounts of and more types of resources) it doesn’t benefit them/us effectively at all.  And peer-reviewed science clearly shows that when people consume (far) bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need to survive or live, it at least instrumentally irreversibly destroys the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (or which humankind can’t access enough food and fresh water, etc, without), and at least instrumentally causes suffering and injustice to people in many other ways, as is outlined further on.  There’s also so much evidence that the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to engage in ways of living or behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways (outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page…), aren’t significantly different (in terms of any negative impact that consuming those amounts and types of resources has on people and the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without) than the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to survive or live, by definition (and those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living or behaving (outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page…), which consuming those sustainable amounts and types of resources enables people to potentially engage in, obviously also, by definition, have a positive impact on people and the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, or benefit those in the most effective ways).
Obviously within the current structuring, many people have far bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they need in order to survive or live, only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone, and it should be stated that so many people (no matter how hard-working, intelligent, skilled or talented (etc) they are) are denied access to the resources which they cannot survive without; if people have far more resources than they need in order to survive or live, it can obviously give those people a greater opportunity to benefit or help other people (…) and to fight suffering and injustice (or to engage in some of those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…) in the immediate future, as they can obviously make their excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive and live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above) available for humankind (including those people who are denied access to the resources they can’t survive without) to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else from doing the same (or they can make those excess resources available for other people to use to also engage in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…); possibly the most effective ways for people to use their excess resources in order to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind… (or to engage in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…, which again can be the most effective ways for people to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves…) can be to make enough of those excess resources available as soon as possible for humankind (including those who are denied access to the resources they can’t survive without) to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else from doing the same; and as engaging in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above… (like doing as much as possible to benefit or help other people…) can again be the most effective ways for people to maximise benefit for themselves, if people have more resources than they need in order to survive and live…, in the immediate future those people therefore also have a greater opportunity to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves; so, according to some of this argument, if people accumulate and possess far bigger amounts and more types of resources than they need in order to survive or live, it might seem to benefit them effectively as it means they can do more to benefit or help other people and can engage more in those other mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above… (in the immediate future), but because again possibly the most effective ways those people can use those excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive or live) to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for people/humankind in the most effective ways (and therefore potentially to maximise benefit for themselves in the most effective ways, or to engage in mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living or behaving like those outlined above), is to make them available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone as soon as possible (including by making them available for people who are denied access to the amounts and types of resources which they need in order to survive, to use participate in finding and implementing those most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) in their own contexts and globally or to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in their own contexts and globally), if people continue to possess those excess amounts of resources (instead of making those resources available for all that) it obviously doesn’t benefit or help other people in the most effective ways (and so doesn’t constitute engaging in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…) and so again it doesn’t effectively bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment to (or doesn’t effectively benefit) those people continuing to possess those excess resources; and if people are using their time and energy (etc) trying to accumulate more resources than they need to survive or live (so that they can then later make them available for humankind to collectively use to maximise benefit for everyone…), they’re obviously not using that time and energy (etc) to benefit or help others in the most effective ways, or to engage in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…, and so it again also doesn’t effectively bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment to (or doesn’t effectively benefit) those people trying to accumulate those excess resources; if all people are uniting in diversity to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other (and make that the priority of human society), and if all people are making all the appropriate resources accumulated in human society (obviously including all the resources they’ve individually accumulated themselves) available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, the amounts and types of resources which people need to accumulate and possess in order for people to do as much as possible to (or to maximise and maintain their ability, capacity or potential to) benefit or help other people in the most effective ways (or to engage in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…) in the long term, again aren’t significantly different to the amounts and types of resources which people need in order to survive or live; and so again (again if all people are uniting in diversity to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other (and make that the priority of human society), and if all people are making all the appropriate resources accumulated in human society (obviously including all the resources they’ve individually accumulated themselves) available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts), the amounts and types of resources people need to accumulate, possess or consume in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves in the most effective ways (or to engage in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above…) therefore aren’t significantly different to the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to survive or live.
And peer-reviewed science shows that if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, those ecosystems and environments can provide sufficient amounts and types of resources to sustain an even bigger human population than there is currently, or can potentially provide enough resources for an even bigger human population than there is currently to not only survive or live, but also to potentially engage in ways of living and behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page… (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone), insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same and no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page…; so partly as a result of that, if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (and as long as no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page…), those ecosystems and environments can potentially provide sufficient amounts and types of resources for humankind to be able to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society, or to at least to fight all those causes of suffering and injustice far more effectively than they are fought within the current structuring; or, also as a result of that, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create, all people (including in an even bigger human population than there is today) could potentially obtain, access or get (from those ecosystems and environments) and consume all the resources which they/we need in order to survive or live and to engage in ways of living or behaving like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page… (which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…) without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without; or, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create, there would potentially be no need for anyone (including in an even bigger population than there is currently) to irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, in order to access and consume the resources they/we need in order to survive or live and to potentially engage in ways of living or behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…); in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create, humankind (including with an even bigger human population than there is today) could potentially obtain, access or get (from those ecosystems and environments) and consume all the resources which they/we need in order to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society, without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (or, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create, there would potentially be no need for humankind (including with an even bigger population than there is currently) to irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, in order to access and consume the resources they/we need in order to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society).  Within the current structuring of human society, so many people are obviously denied access to means though which all people could potentially obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to be able to potentially engage in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above; and again it maybe can’t be proven (currently) that, with the amounts and types of resources already accumulated in human society (combined with amounts and types of resources which can be obtained, accessed or got from those ecosystems and environments (and consumed), without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments), humankind can transform the structuring of human society in order to structure human society in a way that enables all people (including in an even bigger human population than there is currently) to collectively obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources they/we need in order to engage in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above, but again it obviously isn’t possible to prove that humankind can’t transform human society like that with the amounts and types of resources already accumulated in human society (combined with those other resources which can be obtained, accessed or got without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), or again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to transform human society like that (with those amounts and types of resources) are all arguments which cannot be proven.

Again it should be stated that 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 that way as well as obviously in so many other ways).  And obviously the situation for so many people within the current structuring is that, in order to just try to survive and provide for themselves and their families or communities, those people, to varying extents, are 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 people doing those types of work, or to other people (and can be at least instrumentally harmful to people doing those types of work, as well as to others);  

   – don’t even provide effective enough ways for people (doing those types of work) to fight suffering and injustice for themselves, as well as others or each other (suffering and injustice which those people are facing themselves, as well as that which others face). 

Also 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 those 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 bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment (outside of those types of work) for themselves, others or each other.  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 those 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 benefit other people in the most effective ways.  And again it should be stated that, for so many people, no matter how much time and energy they spend on doing those 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.  Those lifestyles 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, and don’t enable people to maximise well-being, happiness or fulfilment for themselves, others or each other in the most effective ways (as well as again not even providing so many people with 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 far more resources than people need to survive, but again there’s so much evidence to show when people consume, expend, accumulate and possess bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need to survive or to provide for their/our basic human needs (or consume… unnecessary/excess amounts and types of resources), it doesn’t effectively increase levels of well-being, happiness and fulfilment effectively at all for people doing that; obviously people need a certain amount of resources to survive and to provide for their basic human needs, but again there’s so much evidence to show that when people consume more resources than are necessary to provide for those basic human needs, it doesn’t increase well-being, happiness or fulfilment for people people doing that anywhere nearly as effectively as certain other behaviours (like those outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page…, as well as further on).  Yet so many people are obviously misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing that, in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, they/we need to consume far bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live (and in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above); or so many people are obviously misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing that, in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, they/we need to adopt lifestyles which consist in consuming far bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live (and in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above); and so many people are misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing that consuming those unnecessary amounts and types of resources is normal and harmless, or even necessary and beneficial generally (and at least partly because of all that, so many people within the current structuring obviously do consume far bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live (and in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above), which not only at least instrumentally causes so much suffering and injustice in many ways (including by irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), but also can get in the way of people living or behaving in ways like those, through which people can benefit themselves/ourselves (and obviously others) far more effectively); so many people within the current structuring again obviously aren’t informed of how much suffering and injustice is caused by consuming those unnecessary amounts and types of resources, and how much worse human suffering and injustice, or even human extinction (following the extinction of possibly over a million other species) according to peer-reviewed science, will be caused by people consuming those unnecessary amounts and types of resources.  And those types of work or 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 those types of work, 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 in order to survive or to maximise benefit for themselves (or consuming… unnecessary amounts and types of resources), or entail promoting and increasing manufactured demand for those unnecessary amounts and types of resources, etc; and those types of work or jobs also perpetuate and propel/drive 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 lifestyles and activities 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 believing will benefit them effectively, when they won’t) entail or consist in consuming and expending amounts and types of resources which people don’t need in order to survive or to maximise benefit for themselves, or unnecessary amounts and types of resources).

        Again 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 partaking in or adopting lifestyles and activities 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 again misled or coerced into believing that 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 mainly or exclusively have positive effects); so many people within the current structuring (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) both is only made possible by, and also causes, propels/drives/fuels, perpetuates and increases the extent of, the imposition of processes, systems, structurings and behaviours which entail or consist in extracting, taking or stealing (through direct physical processes or through more complex economic processes), 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, systems and structurings at least instrumentally harm people in so many 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) both is only made possible by, and also causes, propels/drives/fuels, perpetuates and increases the extent of, the imposition of processes, systems, structurings and behaviours which consist in or entail extracting so much so quickly from the finite environments and ecosystems which humankind (all over the world) can’t survive without, and producing 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 causing so much other damage to those ecosystems and environments in other ways so quickly), that they are irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (or which, for example, people can’t grow or produce enough food without or access enough clean fresh water 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 killing so many people in many parts of the world now, as well as causing so much other suffering and injustice in other ways to so many people in so many parts of the world now, 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, regenerate and flourish again), it will obviously cause so much worse human suffering and injustice (including to pretty much all people in future generations), or even cause human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million 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 people 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 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 very specific in terms of time).

But again peer-reviewed science shows that if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, those ecosystems and environments can provide sufficient amounts and types of resources to sustain an even bigger human population than there is currently, or can potentially provide enough resources for an even bigger human population than there is currently to not only survive or live, but also to potentially engage in ways of living and behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page… (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone), insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same and no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page… .   And so though there are obviously many complex and varied social structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world, etc), as well as causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation and other factors (a lot of which affect each other dialectically) linked with all the following causes of suffering and injustice, it’s obviously partly because of the fact that so many people are or have been misled or coerced into believing that, in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, they need to consume bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live and to potentially engage in ways of living or behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…), 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 mentioned above), 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, they are obviously still denied access to these resources they can’t survive without, and are denied access to survival and life (and for many people, the only way they can try and get the resources they need in order to survive is through spending their time and energy doing 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 possibly also to try and accumulate and consume more resources than they need in order to survive because they too are misled or coerced into believing it will benefit them effectively when it won’t);

   – 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 those resources, so many 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), or to fight suffering and injustice which they or others face. 

And those are obviously also some examples of ways in which so many people’s self-determination and autonomy (even self-determination and autonomy insofar no one anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) is taken away within the current structuring, or some examples of how situations or lifestyles 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 lifestyles (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 or adopt 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 mentioned 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 lifestyles 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 that all 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.

        So many people within the current structuring of human society obviously aren’t informed enough about (or are diverted from) how much suffering and injustice can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be caused (at least indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring (including political, economic and ideological structuring) of human society (along with how so many people within the current structuring again aren’t informed enough about (or are diverted from) how much worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (following the extinction of possibly over a million of other species), will, according to peer-reviewed science, be caused by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society…); and so many people within the current structuring are obviously misled or coerced into believing that so many of the structures, systems and behaviours, which can be empirically and rationally verified to at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice, are normal and harmless or even necessary and beneficial; or so many people within the current structuring aren’t informed enough about (or are diverted from) how much suffering and injustice is (or can be empirically and rationally verified to be) caused by structures, systems and behaviours which they are misled or coerced into believing are normal and harmless, or even necessary and beneficial.  At the same time as all that (and in some ways linked with and also causing all that) so many people are misled or coerced (in many concealed or disguised ways, as well as more overt ways) within and by the current social structuring (including political, economic and ideological structuring) of human society, into believing that, in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or to maximise benefit) for themselves, they:
– need to not find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (and need to allow themselves to be diverted from how much suffering and injustice is at least indirectly caused and allowed within and by the current structuring, and from how much suffering and injustice is at least in directly caused and allowed by lifestyles and behaviours which so many people (possibly including themselves) partake in or adopt);
– need to at least indirectly harm other people or other groups and compete with other people or other groups (also in many concealed and disguised ways, as well as more obvious and overt ways), in micro-level personal/interpersonal social interaction and relationships as well as on macro levels though global structural and systemic processes, both in their close vicinity and in other parts of the world, etc (or that they need to partake in or adopt lifestyles, behaviours and activities which at least indirectly harm other people or other groups).
So many people are misled or coerced within and by the current social structuring into believing that for some people to be benefited, other people need to be harmed; and so, at least partly because of all that, 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 obviously 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 (and also behave in ways which don’t benefit or bring happiness and fulfilment for themselves or others effectively enough); so many people are misled or coerced within and by the current social structuring into believing the lies that perpetuating and reproducing those harmful behaviours, structures, systems and processes (including those mentioned above), is what is most beneficial to themselves. But there’s so much evidence (for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc) that it’s possible for the most effective way for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves/ourselves can (for many reasons) potentially be for all people to live or behave in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people, or each other, as much as is potentially possible in those most effective ways (without benefiting any person, people or group(s) at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one causes any suffering and injustice to others even instrumentally, and so on), and in forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible (in harmony as far as possible with the natural world (or the rest of it) as well as each other), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other… in those most effective ways… (and that there’s no need for anyone to even instrumentally harm or compete with anyone else in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves in the most effective ways).  If (all) people can acknowledge and act on that possibility that living or behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways (outlined just above and in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge) can be the most effective way for all people to (collectively) maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves (as again so much evidence shows is a possibility), all people can potentially harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to do all of that or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which it’s (or which it can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be) necessary for humankind to collectively take in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit (or well-being, happiness and fulfilment) for everyone or each other in the most effective ways…, as much as is potentially possible… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), taking into account that in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product.  In order for people to maximise and maintain their/our ability or potential to do all of that (‘to do as much as possible to benefit or help other people, or each other’ and all of that) in the long term, people (who can do these things) obviously need to do certain things to look after themselves/ourselves and their/our own health, etc, and if it’s a cause any suffering and injustice for no one to do anything to look after themselves/ourselves and their health, etc, then (because this calls for people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…) this obviously calls people (who can) to eliminate that cause of suffering and injustice, by doing what’s necessary to look after themselves/ourselves and their/our own health, etc, in order to maximise and maintain their/our ability or potential to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other in the most effective ways… (and make that the priority of human society).  There’s so much evidence (again, for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc) that ‘human nature’ (or ‘the human character’) is malleable, that the way humans behave is influenced so much by the environment (including the social environment) they/we are in, and that humans are not intrinsically or ‘naturally’ selfish and competitive in ways which harm others; partly because of what’s outlined above, if the necessary environment (including social environment) is created, it’s obviously possible for any selfishness and competitiveness which people have to be harnessed or channelled to motivate people to maximise benefit for other people, each other, or everyone, in the most effective ways, and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world in the most effective ways (and unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society).  Again there are many reasons why living or behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… can be the most effective way for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, and one factor in that which it might be good to mention here is that humans can obviously be social beings who can derive feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment within themselves/ourselves from benefiting or helping other people, or each other, as much as is potentially possible in those most effective ways (without benefiting any person, people or group(s) at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one causes any suffering and injustice to others even instrumentally, and so on), and from forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible (in harmony as far as possible with the natural world (or the rest of it) as well as each other), or from uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other… in those most effective ways…; or, humans can obviously experience feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) when they/we do all of that (or feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) can obviously be generated within people when they/we do all of that); and benefiting other people can also obviously encourage and cause other people to reproduce and reciprocate this beneficial behaviour back to you and other people, etc.  Partly because when people benefit other people, it can also benefit themselves/ourselves (as again so much evidence shows), it possibly follows that to certain extents, the more effectively people benefit other people, the more effectively they/we can benefit themselves/ourselves (so that fighting suffering and injustice or maximising benefit for other people in the most effective ways…, can possibly be a more effective way for people to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves than fighting suffering and injustice or benefiting others in less effective ways); again 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/we need to benefit themselves/ourselves enough to keep themselves/ourselves alive, but it’s obviously possible for people to prioritise mutually benefiting others and each other as the primary means to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves or each other, etc).

It might be useful to clarify here some things that are stated in the paragraph just above.  Obviously so many people are forced within and by the current social structuring into situations in which, in order for them to even get the resources that they need in order to survive and in order to try and benefit themselves in some ways, they do need to at least instrumentally harm other people, but when it’s stated above that ‘so many people are misled or coerced … within and by the current social structuring … of human society, into believing that, in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or to maximise benefit) for themselves, they need to at least instrumentally harm other people or other groups and compete with other people or other groups…’, it partly means that so many people are misled or coerced … within and by the current social structuring … of human society, into believing that it’s not possible for there to be social structurings (or that it’s not possible for humankind to create social structurings) in which no one needs to even indirectly harm other people or other groups and compete with other people or other groups in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves/ourselves…; again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to create such social structurings are obviously all arguments which can’t be proven…; it can’t be proven that it’s not possible for humankind to create social structurings in which it’s possible for the most effective way for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves/ourselves to be (for many reasons) for all people to live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above (to live or behave in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people, or each other, as much as is potentially possible in those most effective ways (without benefiting any person, people or group(s) at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one causes any suffering and injustice to others even instrumentally, and so on), and in forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible (in harmony as far as possible with the natural world (or the rest of it) as well as each other), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other… in those most effective ways…)…; so that again all people can potentially harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to do all of that or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action which it’s (or which it can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be) necessary for humankind to collectively take in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other in the most effective ways…, as much as is potentially possible… (and make all of that the priority of human society…); and all people can potentially harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to unite in diversity to collectively create social structurings in which all of that can be possible (again taking into account that in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product).  Also, it’s stated in the paragraph just above that ‘so many people are misled or coerced … within and by the current social structuring … of human society, into believing that, in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or to maximise benefit) for themselves, they need to … partake in or adopt lifestyles, behaviours and activities which at least instrumentally harm other people or other groups’, but also that ‘so many people within the current structuring are obviously misled or coerced into believing that so many of the … behaviours, which can be empirically and rationally verified to at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice, are normal and harmless or even necessary and beneficial’, or that ‘so many people within the current structuring aren’t informed enough about (or are diverted from) how much suffering and injustice is (or can be empirically and rationally verified to be) caused by … behaviours which they are misled or coerced into believing are normal and harmless, or even necessary and beneficial’; and that’s partly referring to how, regardless of whether or not people are aware of or informed of how much suffering and injustice is at least instrumentally caused by partaking in or adopting certain lifestyles, behaviours and activities, so many people are misled or coerced … within or by the current structuring … into believing that in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, they need to still partake in or adopt those lifestyles, behaviours and activities (which at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice) anyway, so that it may be the case that many people who partake in or adopt those lifestyles, behaviours and activities don’t necessarily fully intend to cause suffering and injustice by partaking in or adopting those lifestyles, behaviours and activities (but are at least instrumentally causing so much suffering and injustice regardless); so many people are misled or coerced … within or by the current structuring … into believing that in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, they:

     – need to not find out, or need to not empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible), how much suffering and injustice is caused (even instrumentally) by lifestyles, behaviours and activities which they/we adopt or partake in;

   – need to not stop partaking in or adopting lifestyles, behaviours and activities which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice including by obstructing other people from having self-determination and autonomy (insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy)…;

– need to not unite in diversity with (all) other people to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order to change the current structuring to make it possible for all people (including themselves/ourselves) to be able to live and behave in ways which don’t cause suffering and injustice (even instrumentally) and in ways which consist in collectively fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (including themselves/ourselves) in the most effective ways (or need to not unite in diversity with (all) other people to … change the current structuring to make 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…);

– need to not unite in diversity with (all) other people to collectively empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible) what ways of living and behaving consist in collectively fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, and making all of that the priority of human society (and need to not subsequently live and behave in mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways like those, or like those outlined earlier);

– need to not unite in diversity with (all) other people to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order to for humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make all of that the priority of human society).

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 mentioned earlier (which are the main means made available for people to use to try and benefit themselves/ourselves within the current structuring), doesn’t bring well-being, happiness or fulfilment effectively at all, or effectively enough, to people engaging in those behaviours (or to other people obviously), so much research and evidence again shows that behaving in those at least instrumentally harmful ways doesn’t benefit people engaging in those behaviours anywhere nearly as effectively as living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above and in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; 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 those needs, or to any other at least instrumentally harmful behaviours, obviously again also gets in the way of people living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… which would benefit those people far more effectively; if people devote time and energy (and resources) to those partaking in or adopting those at least indirectly harmful lifestyles and activities, they obviously can’t use that time and energy (and those resources) to live and behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… which would bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment far more effectively, so in many ways the current structuring limits how much well-being, happiness and fulfilment any people (who are partaking in those at least instrumentally harmful lifestyles or activities) can have or attain, in comparison to how much people would be able to in other possible structurings (even when people have enough resources to survive and to therefore potentially maximise their/our well-being happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways).  Partaking in or adopting those lifestyles is harmful to themselves/ourselves as well as others, preventing them/us from fighting any suffering and injustice which they/we themselves/ourselves face (or any lack of well-being, happiness and fulfilment which they/we themselves/ourselves face) in the most effective ways, as well as that which others face; in many ways the current structuring limits how much well-being, happiness and fulfilment even people with the most resources can experience, including in how it misleads or coerces them into behaving in ways which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice 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, peer-reviewed science again also shows that if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, those ecosystems and environments can provide sufficient amounts and types of resources to sustain an even bigger human population than there is currently, or can potentially provide enough resources for an even bigger human population than there is currently to not only survive or live, but also to potentially engage in ways of living and behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone), insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same and no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above…; 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); linked with all of that (and partly because of all of that), in the kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create, in order for any person, any people, or any group(s) to fight any suffering and injustice (which they or others face) in the most effective ways, and to maximise benefit for themselves or others in those most effective ways, there’s no need for any person, any people or any group(s) to obstruct any other person, people or group(s) from doing the same, or there’s no need for any person, people or groups to even instrumentally cause any suffering and injustice for any other person, people or groups (or to even instrumentally harm any others), insofar as no others even instrumentally obstruct (or no one obstructs) anyone else from doing the same, and no others even instrumentally cause (or no one causes) any suffering and injustice for any others, and so on; again within the current structuring of human society, not only individuals, but also different groups (which people get divided into within the current structuring), are misled or coerced into believing that they need at least instrumentally harm other groups or compete with other groups in order to maximise benefit for themselves, but again, linked with what’s written above (and partly because of what’s written above), as so much evidence shows, all people and groups can benefit themselves/ourselves far more effectively if they/we unite in diversity globally to maximise benefit for everyone or each other globally and to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice globally, insofar as no other groups are even instrumentally causing any suffering and injustice for other groups or obstructing other groups from maximising benefit for themselves and others, insofar as they in turn aren’t obstructing others from doing the same, and so on; in the kind of social structuring it’s potentially possible to create, all people’s or groups’ efforts and action to fight any suffering and injustice (which they or others face) in the most effective ways, and to maximise benefit for themselves or others in those most effective ways, can potentially contribute to (and not obstruct) all other people’s or groups’ action to do the same (again insofar as no others even instrumentally obstruct (or no one obstructs) any others from doing the same, and so on) and can be unified.  And in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways and for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways, all people and all groups can possibly only seek to maximise benefit for themselves or others and to fight any causes of suffering and injustice (which they or others face) in the most effective ways by doing that in ways which don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same (insofar as no others obstruct (or no one is obstructing) any others from doing the same, and so on).  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.

So many people within the current structuring are obviously also misled or coerced into believing that, even in order to engage in ways of living or behaving like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, they/we need to consume far bigger amounts of and more types of resources than people actually need to in order to engage in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving, when again the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to engage in ways of living or behaving like those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above aren’t significantly different (in terms of any negative impact that consuming those amounts and types of resources has on people and the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without) than the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to survive or live, by definition.  Aside from how when people consume those unnecessary/excess amounts and types of resources, it doesn’t benefit those people (who’re consume those unnecessary/excess amounts and types of resources) effectively at all, and it causes suffering and injustice in so many ways at least instrumentally, there’s so much evidence to show that when people engage in any of the other behaviours which can be empirically and rationally verified to cause suffering and injustice even instrumentally, it also doesn’t benefit the people engaging in those harmful behaviours (or bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment) anywhere nearly as effectively as living or behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living and behaving outlined above, and it doesn’t benefit them/us effectively at all (and it again can get in the way of people living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, which can benefit them/us far more effectively); and that constitutes another reason why, in the kind of structuring of human society it’s potentially possible to create, in order for any person, any people, or any group to fight any suffering and injustice (which they or others face) in the most effective ways, and to maximise benefit for themselves or others in those most effective ways, there’s no need for any person, any people or any group to obstruct any others from doing the same, or to even instrumentally cause any suffering and injustice for anyone else (or even instrumentally harm any others or compete with any others), insofar as no others even instrumentally obstruct (or no one obstructs) anyone else from doing the same, and so on.  Ideas like all of those logically follow from (and are implicit in) parts of what this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for, and it also logically follows from parts of what this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for to seek out, acknowledge and act on the science and evidence around all of that.  Again, in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, and possibly always needs to be to benefit other people, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product, but if people can acknowledge and act on ideas like all of those too, and the science and evidence around all of that, it could also contribute to motivating people to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (if again people can harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to do that…); so many people within the current structuring of human society are obviously always trying to benefit themselves by at least instrumentally harming other people or other groups, including by irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind cannot survive without, or are at least instrumentally harming other people or other groups in order to try to benefit themselves (at least partly because so many people are misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to maximise benefit for themselves); and as long as people or groups are trying to benefit themselves by at least instrumentally harming other people or other groups, or are at least instrumentally harming other people or other groups in order to try to benefit themselves (or as long as people or groups are misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm other people or other groups in order to maximise benefit for themselves), we’re obviously probably never going to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways.  Partly 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, and that many people must be harmed in order for some other people to be benefited (or that again 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 other people), people are again obviously misled and coerced within and by this current structuring into partaking in or adopting lifestyles behaviours which are harmful to those people (who are engaging in those behaviours) themselves as well as to other people, preventing people from maximising their own and others’ well-being, happiness and fulfilment in the most effective ways, 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 to others (as well as themselves).

        And again there’s so much evidence to show that ‘human nature’ or the ‘human character’ is malleable, that the social environment or social structuring which people find themselves/ourselves 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/we act like that or not depends significantly on whether the social environments or structurings which they/we find themselves/ourselves in are ones which mislead, coerce or influence people into thinking and behaving like that or not (or into believing the lies that in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, they/we need to at least instrumentally compete with and harm others).  Obviously it can be hard to prove whether humans have ‘free will’/agency (or the capacity to decide to think and behave in different ways), or whether when people believe they/we are making decisions out of their/our own ‘free will’/agency it’s actually other forces that are determining how we ‘decide’ to think and behave (and any ‘decisions’ we make), and there’re obviously some more circularities in this, but for many reasons it obviously seems like humankind/we can get far further in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, if humans (decide to) think and behave as if humans do have agency/’free will’ (or the capacity to decide to think and behave in different ways), even if it’s other forces that are determining all that; and while acknowledging all 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, or the argument that people can decide not to think and behave selfishly and competitively in ways which are harmful to others; again, all the arguments that 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 that, are all arguments which can’t be proven or which rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s a lot more evidence to refute those negative arguments and premises than there is to support them.  And while again in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways (with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product), the possibility that living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise benefit for themselves, obviously means there can be massive incentives for all people to decide to harness or channel any selfish drives (or drives to maximise benefit for the self) to decide to motivate themselves/ourselves to live and behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial way outlined above…; and in the kind of structuring of human society that we can make or bring about, where all the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different cause of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone… (and provide for everyone’s needs), and where people, or humankind collectively, can use all their/our energy and time primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to do all of that…, 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), but that there are also those massive incentives to decide to harness or channel drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to decide to live and behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… (and that behaving in harmful ways can also harm the self in so many ways); in that 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 living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… 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 any ways, in order to maximise benefit for themselves most effectively).  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)

 

        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 in order to survive (or to use those 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 those 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 that destruction 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 maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves far more effectively if they made their excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive and live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outline earlier) available for humankind to collectively use to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (including themselves) in the most effective ways (which would also constitute engaging in some of those ways of living or behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier).  And all the arguments that human society needs such people to continue to accumulate, possess and consume those excess/unnecessary amounts and types of resources (or needs massive harmful inequalities, hierarchies and oppressive or exploitative sets of relationships like those), again obviously also all rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to confirm them; in the current structuring some people are misled or coerced into believing that such harmful inequalities, hierarchies or unequal sets of relationships are necessary in order for those people to be benefited most effectively, when they again 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 unequal sets of relationships like those (and subsequent suffering and injustice) are necessary for the current structuring to function, 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 obviously no excuse not to change the current structuring (to make it the primary aim and absolute priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways).  While many people with those excess amounts of resources do make a lot of their resources available to fight some suffering and injustice in the world and benefit some people within the current structuring, many such people still continue to accumulate, possess and consume more excess resources at the same time (in ways which at least instrumentally cause so much harm including in ways like those mentioned earlier), and many such people obviously don’t make resources available to be used to fight the suffering and injustice in the world in the most effective ways, or to be used to change the structuring that causes and allows so much harmful behaviour to continue (or change the current structuring to make it the primary aim and absolute priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways).  People with those massive amounts of excess resources could obviously potentially collectively contribute massively to making enough resources available for humankind to be able to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways, or to create structurings in which all people can provide for each other’s needs or everyone’s needs (including their own), or in which all people are able to live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… (which can be the most effective way for all people to (collectively) maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment, or benefit, for themselves/ourselves); and those people (with those massive amounts of excess resources) would obviously still, by definition, have enough resources for themselves to survive and to maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment, for reasons outlined earlier, or would be able to maximise benefit for themselves far more effectively than they can within the current structuring.  But partly because people who already have far more resources than they need in order to provide for their needs and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves, are also misled, coerced or influenced into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves they need to accumulate, possess and consume even more excess resources, many such people obviously again still continue to try to accumulate and consume even more resources, and therefore behave and live in ways which cause so much human suffering and injustice like those mentioned above (for example, through extracting so much from the planet in ways which irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which humans can’t survive without, or taking so much from other people, including each other (people who also have excess resources), as well people who already don’t have enough to survive, causing so much harm in so many other ways); and that obviously forces them into competition with others and each other, while they also try to stop others and each other from taking ‘their’ resources from them.  The types of work and jobs 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, etc, also obviously don’t bring them well-being, happiness and fulfilment as effectively as living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above potentially could (and obviously again don’t benefit others effectively enough or fight suffering and injustice effectively enough, and do at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice to other people).  But as they are still misled, coerced or influenced into thinking that consuming more excess resources and continuing those 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 that harmful behaviour, which doesn’t benefit them effectively, and causes so much harm to others; any consequent lack of well-being, happiness and fulfilment they have can potentially only be effectively fought or eliminated by them living or behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above and by them making enough of their excess resources available for humankind to collectively use to change the structuring which causes and allows the harmful cycles of harmful behaviour to continue (to change the current structuring to make it the primary aim and absolute priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways).  (And just in case the argument is made that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources to potentially do all of that within the current structuring) to actually do all of that, is obstructing those people’s self-determination and autonomy (and, partly as a result of that, is causing those people suffering and suffering and injustice), it might be good to mention here that if those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) are not actually doing all of that, within the current structuring, those people are obviously at least instrumentally obstructing the self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) of so many other people, and are at least instrumentally causing so much suffering and injustice to so many other people; and an obvious example of a logical conclusion of the argument that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) to actually do all of that is obstructing their self-determination and autonomy, is that calling for certain people to not murder millions or billions of innocent people is obstructing the self-determination and autonomy of those certain people, and partly as a result of that is causing those certain people suffering and injustice, & so on; this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for all people to unite in diversity to ensure (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…).  But because within this current structuring so many people have, as a result of processes like those mentioned above, been denied direct access to ways of living and behaving which would enable them to live sustainably, or to get the resources they need in order to survive from the ecosystems and environments in the world in ways which don’t irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which they and all humankind can’t survive without, they again have been forced within the current structuring into becoming dependant on types of working and lifestyles which do cause so much harm in ways like those mentioned earlier (or the only ways they can get the resources they need in order to survive within the current structuring involve partaking in those types of work and those lifestyles which cause so much harm in those ways mentioned above and others), which again highlights how the current structuring obviously needs to be changed (to make 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 partly 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, expended or destroyed already by some people), obviously aren’t enough to provide for everyone else’s needs, many people who don’t already have enough resources to survive are obviously forced into competing with other people for the insufficient amounts of remaining resources, or into possibly at least instrumentally or partly unintentionally harming other people in turn just to get resources they need in order to survive, including other people who also don’t already have enough resources to survive, in another harmful cycle; and that harmful competition is aggravated, exacerbated and made worse by how many of those people are misled or coerced within and by the current structuring into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they not only need to obtain the resources which would enable them to survive, but also need to accumulate and consume far more resources than they need in order to survive, so that many of those people also are not only competing to get the resources they need in order to survive, but also for excess or unnecessary amounts and types of resources.  And again it’s partly because so many people are denied access to and are more distanced from (in ways like those mentioned earlier) the ways through which they could potentially obtain all the resources they need from the world’s ecosystems and environments (in ways which don’t destroy those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without) that so many people are again forced to spend so much more time and energy than would be necessary in other possible structurings doing types of work and jobs which don’t benefit them or others effectively (and do at least instrumentally cause so much harm), just to try to obtain the resources they need to survive; and again it’s also partly because of that, that, to varying degrees, so many people don’t have enough time and energy to do enough to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including suffering and injustice which they face themselves, or each other’s suffering and injustice, or others’) and maximise benefit for people/humankind (including themselves), or to behave in ways which would maximise their own well-being, happiness and fulfilment most effectively.  And in another harmful cycle or another part of that harmful cycle, again those types of work or jobs which so many 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 indirectly contribute to perpetuating, propelling/driving, spreading, multiplying and expanding processes, structurings, systems and behaviours like those mentioned above which at least instrumentally contribute to transferring (control of) more resources to people who already have far more resources than they need in order to survive, again at least partly by at least instrumentally taking more resources, time and energy from other people with varying amounts of resources, or by extracting more from the finite amounts of remaining resources from the ecosystems and environments which humans can’t survive without in ways which destroy those ecosystems and environments, as well as obviously not fighting suffering and injustice in the world or maximising benefit for others or themselves effectively enough (again partly because people who already have far more resources than they need in order to survive are misled or coerced within and by the current structuring that in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they need to maintain processes like those, structurings, systems and behaviours like those mentioned above, and to continue to accumulate and consume far more resources than they need in order to survive); and all that obviously further exacerbates causes of suffering and injustice (ike those mentioned above.  And 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 those resources (and resources which people can’t survive without are continually being taken from so many more), even if so many of those other people use all of their time and energy trying to get resources they need in order to survive out of the remaining resources, they still are denied access to them, and so, again, they are denied access to survival and life; and in another harmful cycle, or another part of that harmful cycle, again it’s partly because so many people are also forced to spend so much of, or all of, their time and energy trying to get resources they need in order to survive, that so many people don’t have time, energy and resources find and implement ways to change the structuring which has forced them into that situation where they are denied access to the resources they need in order to survive…; and again, for so many people, whether or not they are allowed access to the resources they need in order to survive, they have to use so much of their time and energy trying to obtain those resources that they are denied the opportunity to decide how to use their time and energy (without deciding to die), even insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else’s opportunity to decide how to use their time and energy, or they are again denied access to self-determination and autonomy (even self-determination and autonomy 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 resources they need in order to survive) 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), in ways which don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same; as so many people in situations like that are forced into competition with each other, they are denied access to being able to live in community and solidarity with each other with good human relationships, sustainably with the environments and ecosystems which humankind can’t survive without, and are denied access to ways of living and behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly ways outlined above… (which again can be the most effective way for people to maximise benefit for themselves and others); and they are again 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 partake in harmful lifestyles and types of work); again in other possible structurings it would be totally unnecessary for anyone to have to do harmful types of work and jobs like that or to be in harmful 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 in order to survive; in other possible structurings people would be able to only do work which fights suffering and injustice for themselves and others (or which provides for their own and everyone else’s needs) in the most effective ways, and which maximises well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves or others in the most effective ways, and that kind of work can require far less time and energy than those harmful types of work in the current structuring.

        As many 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 extracting them from the ecosystems and environments which humans can’t survive without in ways which destroy those ecosystems and environments…), 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 they need in order to survive (or more resources than they need in order to survive, as they may also be misled or coerced into believing they need to consume massive amounts of excess resources in order to maximise benefit for themselves), consist in at least instrumentally taking resources from other people with varying amounts of resources, so many people, with any amounts of resources, are trying to at least instrumentally take resources from other people or 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 in order 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 effectively 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 have taken or destroyed so many of the finite resources which humankind cannot survive without) that so many other people don’t have enough resources 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 towards them and take so many resources from them that they won’t have enough resources to survive.  That 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 be used to fight the suffering and injustice in the world or maximise benefit for humankind/other people in the most effective ways, or less willing 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 so many people are also misled or coerced within and by the current structuring into believing that they need to harmfully compete with or at least instrumentally harm other people and each other in far more ways than through competing for resources or over resources, in order to maximise benefit for themselves; so many people are obviously also misled or coerced within and by the current structuring into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves, they need to also harm other people or each other through, for example, obtaining power or dominance over others or each other, through obstructing other people’s self-determination and autonomy (even self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy), through retaliation (which often escalates), as well as through harmfully competing and causing physical and emotional harm in so many other ways in so many types of social or interpersonal interaction and relationships, on macro and micro levels, on global and local levels, and as individuals or as groups which people get divided into on the basis of many negatively-socially-constructed criteria within the current structuring (though a lot of the time harming all those ways can be linked with competing for resources too); even in micro-level social interaction and relationships, so many people within the current structuring compete with or harm others to get a feeling of superiority and dominance over others (often in very subtle ways as well as more overt ways), or to appear to others as well as themselves to be superior to and dominant over others, again because they are misled or coerced into believing that behaving in harmful ways like those are effective ways (or even possibly the only ways) of maximising benefit for themselves in interaction and relationships like that, when because again people 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, harming others in ways like those can again also mean harming the self at least instrumentally.  People within the current structuring 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 (including in micro-level social and personal interaction and relationships), in order try to benefit themselves, and this obviously can reproduce this harmful behaviour more; that harmful competition provokes or incites more harmful competitive behaviour, in more harmful cycles within the current structuring.

        That 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).  As the most effective ways for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves (as well as others) can be to live or behave in ways like those mutually or interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above… (which involved forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity possible…), 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 good human relationships, 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 in the world 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 to each other, preventing people/ humankind from uniting in diversity to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone or each other, and preventing people/humankind from making sure that all the resources accumulated in human society can be made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to do all of that… (and to provide for everyone’s or each other’s needs), and preventing people/humankind from making sure that people, or humankind collectively, can use all their/our energy and time primarily to do all of that…, again for everyone or each other (including themselves); it prevents people from uniting in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways.

        Within the current structuring so many people also again are misled or coerced into using 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 most effective 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, in the kind of structuring it’s potentially possible to create, all people can potentially access or obtain all the resources they need in order to survive (and live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above…) from the ecosystems and environments in the world (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments), and also partly due to how those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways of living or behaving outlined above (which can maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) involve benefiting others as much as possible… ; also linked to that, categorising, defining and dividing people into groups on the basis of subjective and (negatively)-socially-constructed criteria like those within the current structuring, can also deny people self-determination, autonomy and agency, and can obviously can be harmful to people dividing people in those ways as well as to the people being divided objects of that behaviour; as people who’re dividing people in those ways obviously aren’t behaving in ways which most effectively benefit others (or are at least instrumentally harming others), they are not behaving in ways which could maximise benefit for themselves far more effectively, and that dividing and categorising of people can obviously cause or exacerbate competition and conflict between groups and individuals, which can be harmful to them as well as others, 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 (insofar as no one (else) obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do the same), as well as if they don’t cause people to harm other people or other groups 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) can again, for reasons outlined above and further on, obviously be the most effective way for them to maximise benefit for themselves as well as all other people.

        Behaviour to benefit other people can obviously cause and generate more beneficial behaviour in so many ways, and can cause and generate benefit in so many ways for people who are benefiting other people; though again in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, people’s primary motivation and intention in benefiting others possibly can’t be to benefit themselves but possibly always needs to be to benefit others, with any benefit to themselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product, when people benefit other people, the people who are benefiting other people can obviously again also generate benefit within themselves (due to how feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment can be generated within people when they/we benefit other people…), as well as obviously causing the other people to be benefited; and when people benefit other people it can obviously motivate, encourage or inspire the other people (who’re being benefited) to reciprocate that beneficial behaviour, and to benefit not only the people who benefited them, but also other people, which can then also obviously generate more benefit for the people reciprocating that initial beneficial behaviour themselves, as they can also derive feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment within themselves from benefiting others, and as their behaviour to benefit others can also motivate the people who they are now benefiting to also reciprocate that beneficial behaviour further to not only benefit them back but also benefit more other people, which also generates those feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment within themselves (the people now reciprocating the initial reciprocating of the initial behaviour to benefit other people), and so on; as that beneficial cycle can obviously continue like that, generating and multiplying much more benefit for everyone involved at every stage, benefit can become self-generating and self-multiplying, generating and multiplying or increasing motivation, will and intention for everyone to benefit others or each other or everyone; and people benefiting each other like that can also intrinsically generate better human relationships, community, solidarity and unity, which can also intrinsically bring more benefit to people in so many ways, and which also can motivate people to benefit each other more, which in turn generates more unity, which then motivates people to benefit each other more (and so on), and benefit and unity can also generate and multiply each other many times over, or can also be self-generating and self-multiplying, in more beneficial cycles.  Uniting, and the benefit and better human relationships it brings, can obviously eliminate the competing which is harmful in itself in so many ways (including in how it destroys the better human relationships, community, solidarity and other behaviours which bring people far more effective ways to benefit themselves than the harmful competition does).  And uniting like that can obviously also enable people and motivate people to work together better, more cooperatively and more efficiently or effectively, to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people/humankind; and so uniting can enable people and motivate people to take more effective action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people/humankind, or uniting can enable people and motivate people to create the necessary collaboration and collective action to make it priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, which can also generate more unity as well as further benefit, and so on.  So it can obviously be far more beneficial for everyone if all of human society can be structured around those kinds of beneficial behaviours, interconnections and effects, including how benefiting other people and uniting intrinsically generate so much more benefit and unity for everyone and each other (including people’s selves), in so many ways, and how benefit and unity generated by that can again multiply themselves many more times over, generating many more times more benefit and unity for everyone, which then also can again multiply themselves many more times over, and so on, with benefit and unity again multiplying and generating each other, or with unity and benefit again being self-generating and self-multiplying with each other; or it can obviously be far more beneficial for everyone of all of human society can be structured around how living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly way outlined above can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves or each other (or everyone); or it would obviously be far more beneficial for everyone by definition if it was the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, or if all people were uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society… .  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 misled or coerced into believing that they need to harm others in order to benefit themselves, if people aren’t constantly threatened by people trying to benefit themselves by at least instrumentally harming other people, 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 can be to live and behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, so that as far as is potentially possible, the only ways in which people are trying to benefit themselves are ways which don’t harm others even instrumentally, and which also benefit others.

Until pretty much all people can unite in diversity to make it the primary aim and absolute priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways (ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be most effective)…, we’re probably never going to get far enough (in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); again, till the social (including political, economic and ideological) structures, systems, and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world) which cause and allow the situation in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in those most effective ways, and which cause and allow the situation in which only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (and which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways), are overcome or eliminated, we’ll obviously never get far enough.  And because there are obviously so many different causes of suffering and injustice on so many different levels of causation (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), and because they are so complex and varied, we/humankind can possibly only get far enough in fighting all of those different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways if pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that (to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, and to make it the priority of human society to do all of that…), and if pretty much all people are free to or able to fully apply their/our intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skills, talents, potentials for reflexivity and rationality, time and energy (and so on) primarily to doing all of that… (again together with ensuring (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…); and the social (including political, economic and ideological) structures, systems and behaviours which cause and allow the situation in which only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and which cause and allow the situation in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (and which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways), are so ingrained, pervasive and extensive, reaching into almost every area and aspect of human life and society, that we can possibly only change, eliminate or overcome those structures and systems enough (to make 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…) if again pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that…, and if again pretty much all people are free to or able to fully apply their intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skills, talents, potentials for reflexivity and rationality, time and energy (and so on) primarily to doing all of that… (again together with ensuring (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy).  And the massive diversity of different contexts in the world and human society means that, in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, all people obviously need to have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy.  Obstructions to people’s self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) can obviously be causes of suffering and injustice; and again because there are also so many different obstructions to people’s self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) on so many different levels of causation (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied, and because the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural obstructions to people’s self-determination and autonomy (…) are so ingrained, pervasive and extensive…, humankind/we can only get far enough in ensuring (in those most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy (insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) if again pretty much all people unite in diversity to do all of that… .  Obviously it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that humankind can collectively overcome and eliminate all the different causes of suffering and injustice (that are caused and allowed within and by the current social structuring) in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (or that humankind can overcome and eliminate all the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice (in order to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways), and to change the current social structuring to make 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…), but again all the arguments that humankind can’t do all of that are arguments which cannot be proven, and if all people unite in diversity to do all of that and are free to or able to fully apply their intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skills, talents, potentials for reflexivity and rationality, time and energy (and so on) primarily to doing all of that…, then it potentially could be possible, and if there’s even the slightest chance that humankind/we could do that, surely we need to try?  There are obviously circularities in all of this, but if humankind/we makes/make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, that would mean, by definition, that all people will be uniting in diversity and mobilising together to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone…, and that all people will be free to or able to fully apply their/our intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skills, talents, potentials for reflexivity and rationality, time and energy (and so on) primarily to finding and implementing the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or for themselves/ourselves/others, each other and everyone (again together with ensuring (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy); if humankind/we makes/make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, that would mean, by definition, that all the resources accumulated in human society will be made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone… (for themselves/ourselves/others, each other and everyone).  Within the current structuring of human society there’s obviously massive inequality in the distribution of power as well as resources (or some people obviously have far more power than most others within the current structuring), but there are obviously many different forms and sources of power, and in so many ways, the more people who unite in diversity and mobilise together to make 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…, the more power will obviously generated for doing all of that and for the people striving to make 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…, for everyone… . The inequality in the distribution of power within the current structuring is obviously a cause of suffering and injustice in itself, which possibly can only be fought effectively enough if again pretty much all people unite in diversity to overcome and eliminate that cause of suffering and injustice (as well as to overcome and eliminate or fight all the other causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); and the social structural and systemic causes of the inequality in the distribution of power within the current structuring are possibly also so ingrained, pervasive and extensive…, that we can possibly only change, eliminate or overcome those structures and systems enough (to overcome and eliminate those causes of suffering and injustice, and to make 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…) if again pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that… .

        It’s obviously possible to articulate different causes of human suffering and injustice as being on many different levels of causation, on spectrums from underlying root causes of suffering and injustice, such as ideological, political and economic structures (including ways of thinking, behaving and relating to other people and the world), to more surface-level causes of suffering and injustice (such as poverty, cancer or ecocide).  The fact that only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, and the fact that people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, are obviously causes of suffering and injustice in themselves on certain levels of causation.  And the aspects of the current social structuring of human society which cause and allow the situations in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, and in which people, or humankind collectively, can only use (within the current structuring) such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to do all of that, constitute other causes of suffering and injustice, on further underlying levels of causation.  And the aspects of the current structuring which cause people to be misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to maximise benefit for themselves, constitute further underlying causes of suffering and injustice, on further underlying levels of causation.  Different causes of suffering and injustice at similar points on those spectrums (or at similar levels of causation) can obviously cause, worsen or exacerbate other causes of suffering and injustice at similar points on those spectrums (or at similar levels of causation; in some particular situations, for example, certain more surface-level causes of suffering and injustice such as certain forms of poverty, cancer and ecocide, can obviously all cause, worsen or exacerbate each other (in those particular situations); but more surface-level causes of suffering and injustice like those can possibly propel/drive/fuel, perpetuate or more deeply ingrain underlying social structural and systemic causes of suffering and injustice; and underlying social structural and systemic causes of suffering and injustice can also cause, worsen or exacerbate each other. 

The fact that so many people within the current and (relatively) recent structuring of human society are or have been misled or coerced into believing they/we need to at least instrumentally harm or compete with other people or other groups in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, is obviously interlinked with how so many people are or have been misled or coerced into believing that, in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, they/we need to consume bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live and to potentially engage in ways of living or behaving like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…).  Though there are obviously many complex and varied social structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world, etc), as well as other factors such as causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation and other aspects of the current structuring (a lot of which affect each other dialectically), including those mentioned above, which contribute to bringing about the following interlinked aspects of the current structuring of human society, it’s obviously partly also because of the fact that so many people have been misled or coerced into believing both of those untruths or lies (which is also in dialectics with those structures, systems and behaviours), that many people take (from other people), consume and destroy (or have taken (from other people), consumed and destroyed) so many of the resources (which people/humankind cannot survive without) in the world, that:

        – so many other people are denied access to the resources which they cannot survive without, or are denied access to life (no matter how intelligent, hard-working, skilled, talented or virtuous (etc) they are);

        – so many people (to varying degrees) are forced to spend so much more of their time and energy (than would be necessary in the kinds of structuring it’s potentially possible to create) trying to get the resources they need in order to survive or live.

And one of the effects of those causes of suffering and injustice is again obviously that the situation for so many people is that, even if they intend or want to do far more to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for people/humankind (possibly including themselves) in the most effective ways, they are not able or free to do that (for different reasons), or don’t have enough time and energy to do that (and aren’t able or free to use enough of their intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skill and talent (etc), as well as time and energy, to do that), and all that constitutes another cause of suffering and injustice which obviously causes and exacerbates other causes of suffering and injustice.  And though again there are obviously many complex and varied social structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world, etc), as well as other factors such as causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation and other aspects of the current structuring (a lot of which affect each other dialectically), including those mentioned above, which contribute to bringing about the following interlinked causes of suffering and injustice on other levels of causation (and the following other interlinked aspects of the current structuring of human society), the fact that so many people within the current and (relatively) recent structuring of society are and have been misled or coerced into believing both of those untruths or lies mentioned above (which is also in dialectics with those structures, systems and behaviours), can obviously also be seen to be:

        – a main underlying cause of the situation within the current structuring in which 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 benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally);

        – a main underlying cause of the social (including political, economic and ideological) structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world), in the current overall structuring of human society, which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways, including those mentioned above (or even a main underlying cause of all the suffering and injustice which is caused and allowed within and by the current structuring);

        – a main underlying barrier which obviously prevents enough from being done to fight all the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or which gets in the way of all people uniting in diversity and mobilising together to make 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.

And without overcoming that underlying barrier, it will obviously be so much harder to fight all the other causes of suffering and injustice in the world on all the different levels of causation in the most effective ways; overcoming that barrier will make it so much easier to overcome the social (including political, economic and ideological) structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world, etc) which constitute other causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation, and overcoming that barrier will make it so much easier to move the dialectics between social (including political, economic and ideological) structures and human thought/behaviour in ways which enable all people to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; or overcoming that barrier will just make it so much easier to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (and make that the priority of human society).  And the lies (which so many people within the current structuring are misled or coerced into believing) that people need to at least instrumentally harm or compete with other people or other groups in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves… (along with the social structures, systems and behaviours which contribute to misleading or coercing people into believing those lies) are also so ingrained, pervasive and extensive (reaching into almost every area and aspect of human life and society), that again it might only be possible to eliminate those lies (along with the social structures, systems and behaviours which contribute to misleading or coercing people into believing those lies), so that all people can channel or harness their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to live or behave in those most mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, if pretty much all people unite in diversity to eliminate or overcome those lies and those structures, systems and behaviours.  Again it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that, with that incredible intelligence, ingenuity, imagination and creativity, etc, which humankind collectively has, it’s possible for humankind to collectively find and implement ways to make the changes to the social (including political, economic and ideological) structuring of human society which are necessary in order to allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (or in order to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…); but again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to do all of that (or all the arguments that the ways in which human society currently functions or operates can’t be changed, in order to make it the priority of human society to do all of that), are all arguments which can’t be proven (or which rely on premises that can’t be proven), and again possibly the main or only thing that could guarantee in that sense that we wouldn’t be able to do all of that, would be if we didn’t even try, so again, surely we need to try?  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously might not be the most effective way to contribute to making space(s) and social environments for people/humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to make the changes to the whole social (including political, economic and ideological) structuring of human society which are necessary in order to allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, and again, if there are ways which could be more effective for doing all of that (and which address or deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), this will obviously fully support those.  

Some people understandably ask if this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is ‘too vague’ (for example, in calling for all people to unite in diversity to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways), or suggest that you need to be ‘more specific’, but there are many reasons why this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is intended to have the approach that it has, or why the approach which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge has (which might sound vague to some people) might be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make that the priority of human society…).  It might be useful to mention first that being involved for quite a few years in more conventional and ‘specific’ kinds of charity work and campaigning or activism, targeting ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, such as cancer, poverty or ecocide (in specific areas and globally), is part of what has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; it’s not a lack of awareness of how more conventional kinds of charity work, campaigning or activism are done (or how conventional campaigns and petitions work, etc), that has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and hopefully some of the obvious limitations of those more conventional kinds of charity work, campaigning or activism are outlined clearly enough on the pages of this site; obviously this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge’ has many limitations too, and again there are obviously many problems with it (some more obvious than others), and some of those limitations and problems will be covered separately.  When people have asked if this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is ‘too vague’ (again, for example, in calling for all people to unite in diversity to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways), or have suggested that it needs to be ‘more specific’, often they’ve suggested that if you’re working on a project to fight any suffering and injustice, or to benefit or any help people, you need to target only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (often on relatively surface levels of causation), such as cancer or poverty in one particular area…, or need to target only one ‘specific’ group of people in one area, or even only one person (and that’s part of what they’ve meant by being more ‘specific’, or not ‘too vague’). 

It’s obviously a cause of suffering and injustice on a certain level of causation that so many people are denied access to the means though which all people could potentially obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to be able to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving mentioned above.  And an obvious problem with or in the current structuring of human society is again that only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available (within the current structuring) for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including that particular cause of suffering and injustice) and to maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone (or to benefit or help all the people who need help…) in the most effective ways; and, linked with that, another obvious problem (or another cause of suffering and injustice on a certain level of causation) with or in the current structuring is again that people, or humankind collectively, can only use (within the current structuring) such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or to benefit or help all the people who need help… (and both those problems with or in the current structuring are obviously caused by other problems with or in the current structuring (on more underlying levels of causation), which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways too).  Linked with more of what’s written above, if all the resources accumulated in human society (combined with the resources which can be obtained, accessed or got from those ecosystems and environments (and consumed) without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) are made available for humankind to collectively use primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring) and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society), and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to collectively do that, it’s potentially possible for humankind to effectively fight ALL the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring (or at least to fight all those different causes of suffering and injustice far more effectively than those are fought currently within the current structuring), and to effectively maximise benefit for everyone or effectively benefit or help ALL people in need (or at least to benefit or help all people in need far more effectively than people in need are benefited or helped within the current structuring); and again all the arguments that it’s not possible to eliminate all of the different causes of suffering and injustice (which result from human action or lack of possible human action, or which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring…) and to maximise benefit for everyone or help all people in need, are all arguments which cannot be proven, or which rely on premises which cannot be proven; and again, if there’s even the smallest chance that it is possible for humankind to do that, surely we need to try?  Linked with those problems with or in the current structuring that are mentioned above, if certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, energy and time to try and fight only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) within the current structuring, such as cancer or poverty in one area, there are obviously so many other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (that are caused and allowed within the current structuring) which:

– are not being effectively fought within the current structuring (partly because only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society (…) are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (to maximise benefit for everyone), and partly because people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world to maximise benefit for people/humankind);

– could potentially all be effectively fought if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (and maximise benefit for everyone), and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (to maximise benefit for everyone). 

Or, linked with those problems with or in the current structuring, if certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, time and energy to try and benefit or help only one ‘specific’ person or group who needs help (possibly including themselves/ourselves) within the current structuring, there are so many other ‘specific’ people or groups in need of help (to different extents) who are not being benefited or helped effectively (enough, if at all) within the current structuring (at least partly because only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society (…) are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need, and partly because people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need), and who could potentially all be effectively benefited or helped if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need.  If certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, time and energy trying to fight only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) within the current structuring, or to benefit/help only one person or group within the current structuring, it obviously doesn’t sufficiently or significantly change the situation in the current structuring in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice or to benefit/help people in need, and in which people, or humankind collectively, can only use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world or to benefit/help people in need (in comparison to the amounts that are needed in order to fight all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world and benefit/help all people in need in the most effective ways); or it doesn’t sufficiently or significantly increase the amounts of resources (accumulated in human society) that are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice in the world and to benefit/help all the ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need, and it doesn’t sufficiently or significantly increase the amounts of time and energy which people, or humankind collectively, can use to fight all the ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice in the world and to help all the ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need in the most effective ways (relative to the amounts of different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world and of ‘specific’ people in need).  At least partly because of those problems with or in the current structuring, if people are (or humankind is) only targeting ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation), such as cancer or poverty (in some areas), within the current structuring, without effectively dealing with (to a sufficient extent) problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are (or humankind is) only able to fight some ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice INSTEAD OF other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) within the current structuring, and those other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are allowed to continue within the current structuring; when again humankind could potentially effectively fight all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (that are caused and allowed within the current structuring) if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world.  Or if people are trying to only benefit/help a ‘specific’ person or group of people in need of help (possibly including themselves/ourselves) within the current structuring, without effectively dealing with (to a sufficient extent) problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are obviously only able to benefit/help a certain person or group INSTEAD OF other people or groups who may need help just as much, if not more (possibly including themselves/ourselves), and those other people are allowed to continue to suffer or die, or be killed, within the current structuring (when again humankind could potentially effectively help all the people in need (or all the people who are suffering as a result of problems caused and allowed within or by the current structuring) if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need).  Obviously it’s totally necessary to fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation), but it’s totally necessary to fight ALL the specific causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways as opposed to only fighting some INSTEAD OF others; and in order to fight ALL the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways (as opposed to only fighting some INSTEAD OF others), it’s obviously necessary to deal with or eliminate underlying problems with or in the current structuring of human society (like those mentioned above) which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many ways (including by causing only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone (or to help all the people who need help…), and by causing people, or humankind collectively, to be only able to use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or to help all the people who need help…).  Again it obviously also maybe can’t be proven that it’s possible to do that (and eliminate all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice caused and allowed within and by the current structuring), but again if there’s even the smallest chance that it is possible, surely we need to try?  And due to those problems with or in the current structuring mentioned above, it obviously might not even be possible to fight many of those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) in the most effective ways within the current structuring (without dealing with those problems with or in the current structuring).  Also due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, it can obviously be empirically and rationally verified that some action to fight certain ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice within the current structuring actually at least instrumentally creates or exacerbates other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice; and due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people or groups of people (including charities) who are trying to fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, or are trying to help ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need (possibly including themselves/ourselves), are forced to compete with each other for the comparatively small amounts of resources (accumulated in human society) that are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (or to help people in need), as well as for the comparatively small amounts of energy and time that people, or humankind collectively, can use within the current structuring to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world (or to help people in need).  As long as people are only targeting and fighting only those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) within the current structuring of human society (without dealing with underlying problems in the current structuring like those mentioned above) we’ll obviously never get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world or in maximising benefit for everyone….  The situation within the current structuring is obviously much worse than the situation that’s described above, partly because of the many other problems with or in the current structuring, which cause the problems with or in the current structuring that are outlined above, and which cause and allow suffering and injustice in so many other ways; partly because within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves they need to at least instrumentally harm or compete with other people or other groups (in many disguised ways as well as overt ways, and on macro levels (such as through global economic processes) as well as micro levels), and also partly because of many other problems in the current structuring which are interlinked with that, so much more suffering and injustice is being caused (and allowed) nearly all the time within the current structuring, or so many more different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are being created or caused and allowed nearly all the time (and more suffering and injustice is being caused far more quickly than humankind is able to eliminate or effectively fight it within the current structuring, or so many more ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are being created or caused far more quickly than humankind can eliminate or effectively fight them within the current structuring); and all of that obviously constitutes other reasons (on various different levels) why it’s not possible to get far enough or to fight all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) in the most effective ways if you’re only targeting those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice without also addressing underlying problems with or in the current structuring (like those mentioned above); people who ask if this is ‘too vague’ or suggest you need to be ‘more specific’ sometimes make the argument that even if you’re going to try to fight all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, you need to fight only one of those at a time, being ‘specific’ about which one you’re fighting each time, but what’s outlined above obviously also constitutes reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to effectively fight all those different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) if you’re trying to eliminate only one of those at a time (as discrete problems in isolation from other ones), without dealing with underlying problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above.

        Partly because the main ways which are made available within the current structuring for people to try to benefit themselves are ways which at least indirectly 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 try and benefit themselves in ways which also at least instrumentally harm other people in so many ways including those mentioned above (when again those ways obviously won’t benefit them anywhere nearly as effectively as living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above…), 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, again the amounts of resources accumulated in human society that are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind 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 suffering and injustice that are being caused all the time (or the more different causes of suffering and injustice that are being caused all the time); and also the amounts of energy and time (as well as agency, etc) which people, or humankind collectively, can use within the current structuring to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind 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 suffering and injustice that are being caused all the time (or the more different causes of suffering and injustice that are being caused all the time).  If people are stopped from using one such way of benefiting themselves (which at least instrumentally harms others), in order to try to replace any benefit they were trying to get from that means which they have been stopped from using, within the current structuring they will look for and use other ways to try and benefit 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.  The fact that 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 that 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), 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 those 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 that harmful behaviour individually is increasing), and there is no sufficient corresponding increase in the amounts of resources (accumulated in human society) being made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice (to maximise benefit for people/humankind) within the current structuring, and there is no sufficient corresponding increase in how much energy and time people, or humankind collectively, can use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice (to maximise benefit for people/humankind) within the 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 (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 harmful behaviour, you again 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); and those certain people within the current structuring will merely cause other suffering and injustice at least instrumentally in another way or in another area, in order to try and replace the benefit they were trying to get for themselves from that previous way that was at least instrumentally causing the harm that you were trying to stop initially.  Again 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 again unless that action is linked with more other action to change the structuring which at least instrumentally causes people to behave in harmful ways like those mentioned above (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 and maximising benefit for everyone.

Another aspect of why the situation in the current structuring is far worse than is described above (and another aspect of problems with or in the current structuring including particularly the last one mentioned above), is obviously that (as peer-reviewed science clearly shows) so many behaviours within the current structuring of human society are rapidly irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, and are irreversibly destroying the resources which people need in order to fight other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice; that ecocide will obviously exacerbate so many (if not all) other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, and will cause so much worse human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of up over a million of other species), or will cause so many more different causes of suffering and injustice (on certain levels of causation), unless we are able to end that ecocide quickly enough; it obviously won’t be possible to fight so many (or even all) other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effectively ways within the current structuring (in order to maximise benefit for everyone…), unless that ecocide is ended.  And, linked with problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, as long as only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight that ecocide (as well as other causes of human suffering and injustice) in order to maximise benefit for people/humankind, and as long as people, or humankind collectively, can only use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight that ecocide (as well as other causes of human suffering and injustice) to maximise benefit for people/humankind, it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide (in ways which maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); again linked with problems with problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, as long as only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons) able or free to collectively take all the different forms of action (as well as amounts of action…) which are needed in order for that ecocide to be ended (to maximise benefit for people/humankind), it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide (in ways which maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); or, without dealing with problems with or in the current structuring including those mentioned above, it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide.  And also the fact that those behaviours which cause that ecocide are so inextricably linked to and ingrained in the current structuring (or are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring, which also causes and allows those problems mentioned above…), is another reason why it might not be possible to end that ecocide if people only address it as a ‘specific’ cause of human suffering without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above (which are obviously linked to the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of all the other different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice that are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring); if people are fighting that ecocide as a ‘specific’ cause of human suffering and injustice within the current structuring without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are obviously again only able to fight that ecocide INSTEAD OF fighting other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, and again it can obviously be empirically and rationally verified that, due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, some action to fight ecocide within the current structuring actually can at least instrumentally create or exacerbate other causes of suffering and injustice.  What’s outlined in this paragraph obviously constitutes some more reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to get far enough if you’re only targeting ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation (without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring (like those mentioned above); and (again as peer-reviewed science clearly shows) that ecocide and the behaviours which cause it (which are aspects of problems with or in the current structuring including particularly the last one mentioned above) are (and will be) obviously massively increasing the amounts by which the speeds at which more suffering and injustice are (and will be) caused, are (and will be) greater than the speeds at which humankind is (and will be) collectively able to eliminate or effectively fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring (or are (and will be) massively increasing the amounts by which the speeds at which more ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice are (and will be) created, are (and will be) greater than the speeds at which humankind is (and will be) collectively able to eliminate or effectively fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice within the current structuring), unless we can end that ecocide and change those behaviours and that structuring fast enough; so what’s outlined in this paragraph also constitutes reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to fight all those different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation in the most effective ways if you’re trying to eliminate only one of those at a time (as discrete problems in isolation from other ones), without dealing with underlying problems with or in the current structuring (including those mentioned above).

        If you’re using particular amounts or quantities of time, energy and resources to try to deal with or eliminate the problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, and to change that structuring to make 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, you’re obviously not able to use those particular amounts of time, energy and resources to directly fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation, which are still continuing while you’re doing that, and there are obviously kind of impossible decisions to make in all this; but ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) are obviously symptoms of underlying social (including political, economic and ideological) structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice linked with problems mentioned above; and, for reasons like those outlined on this page, in order to fight as much suffering and injustice as possible in the long term, or to get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world, people obviously need to end the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice (instead of only targeting the symptoms of those underlying problems), or people obviously need to make the necessary social structural, systemic and behavioural changes to make 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.  Again it obviously might not be possible to do that (and it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that it’s possible to do that), so if you’re using those amounts of time, energy and resources to try to do that, in the short term you might end up not effectively fighting as much suffering and injustice as you would have if you had used those amounts of time, energy and resources to target symptoms or ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels or causation (which is another reason why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge has to just be something that works alongside action targeting specific causes of suffering and injustice).  But there’s a chance that it might be possible to do that (again all the arguments that it’s not possible to do that are arguments which cannot be proven…), whereas again if people only target the symptoms or ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels or causation within the current structuring (without also dealing with the underlying structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice linked with problems mentioned above), there’s obviously no chance people will get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice, and there’s possibly no chance that people will be able to stop the irreversible destruction of the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, and which humankind needs in order to be able to fight other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways; so again far worse amounts of human suffering and injustice, or possibly even human extinction, according to peer-reviewed science, will be caused over a longer period of time (though still not that far into the future) if people don’t address the underlying structural, systemic and behavioural problems (like those mentioned above) with or in the current structuring.

The current levels and types of action to fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring again aren’t enough to prevent more suffering and injustice from being caused, or to prevent more causes of suffering and injustice from being created, and the current structuring directly obstructs people’s ability and freedom to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including to prevent it) and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people/humankind or everyone, as well as causing and allowing so much suffering and injustice in other ways.

        Some people who ask if this is too vague (who suggest that you should target only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice, often on surface levels of causation), also sometimes suggest that if you’re trying to fight suffering and injustice or to benefit or help people in need, you need to provide and prescribe ‘specific’ policies or ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to do that, but prescribing all the different ‘specific’ practical logistical steps that would be necessary to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and make that the priority of human society) all at once, would obviously take far too long for it to be an effective or useful step in itself, and it obviously might not be possible to prescribe all those steps anyway; again because there are obviously so many different causes of suffering and injustice on so many levels of causation (including underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied, and because the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice are so ingrained, pervasive and extensive, reaching into nearly all aspects of human life and society (and are also so complex…), it’s probably only possible to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society) if pretty much all people unite and mobilise together to do that (taking all the necessary different forms of action, including those which address the massive inequality in the distribution of power within the current structuring).  And partly because of the massive diversity of human contexts and cultures, in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, all people obviously need to have self-determination and autonomy to find (and implement) the most effective ways to do that in their own contexts insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do the same; and if one person or one comparatively small group (not consisting of everyone) were to try and prescribe or impose all the ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways in all the different contexts and cultures in the world, that would obviously go against all people having self-determination and autonomy (to find the most effective ways of doing all that) insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do that same, and therefore, by definition, those ‘specific’ practical logistical steps could not be the most effective; obviously no single ‘specific’ prescription of ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to do all of that (made by only one person or one comparatively small group) could be effective for all people in all the different contexts and cultures in the world.  And again it obviously might not even be possible for one person or comparatively small group to learn all of that (and articulate it all at once) anyway, partly due to how different human cultures and situations are constantly flowing and changing (and even learning what all the different causes of suffering and injustice on all the levels of causation are (and then articulating what they are) could obviously take to too long for one person or one comparatively small group to do (for it to be a useful step), and might not even be possible).  Some of those people who ask if this is too vague, who accept (when asked about it) that there are far too many ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice to be effectively addressed in a prescription of ‘specific’ practical steps of that type (or to be effectively addressed and effectively fought by any one government or other organisation or group…), have said that what’s needed is just lots of those prescriptions for ‘specific’ practical steps to tackle ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, and that’s obviously part of what this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for and aims to help facilitate; some of those people also accept (when asked about it) that within the current structuring, there obviously currently aren’t anywhere near enough of those ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps of that type being found and implemented, as would be necessary to tackle all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world; they accept (when asked about it) that there are obviously so many more ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world than are currently effectively fought with ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps of that type within the current structuring (partly because nowhere near enough of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to use to find and implement specific prescriptions of practical steps to fight specific causes of suffering and injustice, and so on), but they haven’t then given an answer about how all those different ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps (which would be necessary to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) can or will be found and implemented within the current structuring (in which, for example, again only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and in which there are so many other interlinked problems, like those mentioned above, that prevent enough from being done to fight suffering and injustice in the world and at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice in so many other ways, and so on); or those people haven’t then given an answer about what prescription of ‘specific’ practical steps of that type could deal with or eliminate all those interlinked problems with or in the current structuring which, for example, cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people to be (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways; they haven’t then given an answer about how to bring about a situation in which all those different prescriptions of ‘specific’ practical steps (which would be necessary to fight all the different specific causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) can or will be found and implemented.  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously isn’t a perfect idea and might not be the best way (or even an effective way) of addressing those problems with or in the current structuring, like those mentioned above, in order to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and make that the priority of human society), and if you have ideas about what could do that more effectively (which also address or deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site…), obviously please get in touch; if there are more effective ways of doing that, this will obviously fully support those.  Some people who ask if this is ‘too vague’, also sometimes say in response to it things like ‘that’s not how it works’ or ‘that’s not how the world works’.  But one of the main problems (that needs to be dealt with in order for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) is how ‘it’ currently ‘works’, or how the world (or the current structuring of human society) currently ‘works’, functions or operates (and how methods of fighting suffering and injustice, which are publicised and promoted most (or which are mainly used) within the current structuring, currently ‘work’); the current structuring obviously doesn’t ‘work’ in terms of fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, or methods of fighting suffering and injustice, which are publicised and promoted most (or which are mainly used) within the current structuring, obviously don’t ‘work’ in terms of fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways; again, experience of working within the confines of how ‘it’ currently ‘works’, is part of what has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; again, while the means of fighting suffering and injustice which are publicised and promoted most 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, again:

        – obviously don’t effectively address the problems in the current structuring which cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world to be (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (globally as well as locally) and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (so that those forms and amounts of action on their own obviously don’t effectively generate greater (enough) amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world or maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously don’t effectively generate enough action to do all of that, or don’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do all of that);

        – obviously don’t effectively stop so many people from behaving or living in ways which at least indirectly 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 (including ways of thinking 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 for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways);

        – obviously aren’t sufficient to overcome and eliminate or fight even 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 certain social structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough); 

        – probably aren’t sufficient to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough. 

Linked with how people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, obviously the current structuring also drastically limits how much people, or humankind collectively, can apply or devote their intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill and talent, etc, to finding and implementing the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone; the mainstream and dominant discourses in the current structuring of human society are obviously so far away from where they would need to be to have the purpose of finding or empirically and rationally verifying (as far as possible) what the most effective ways 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…) are; the entire framework which the mainstream and dominant discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring), is obviously so far away from where it would need to be in order for humankind to be able to collectively find the most effective ways to collectively 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…).  Even the mainstream and dominant discourses on how people should live and behave, and on fighting suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for people, and the frameworks which those discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring), are so far away from being focused on finding the most effective ways 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…).  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously might not be a most effective way to contribute to making space for people to find and implement the most effective ways to make the changes to that framework and to the whole social (including political, economical and ideological) structuring of human society which (those changes) are necessary in order to make ‘it’ ‘work’ in ways which allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and again, if you have ideas which could be more effective in doing all of that (and which address or deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), please get in touch to say what they are, and this will obviously fully support those.  Again it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that, with that incredible intelligence, ingenuity, imagination and creativity, etc, which humankind collectively has, it’s possible for humankind to collectively find and implement ways to make the changes to the social (including political, economical and ideological) structuring of human society which are necessary in order to make ‘it’ ‘work’ in ways which allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or in order to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways); but again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to do that (or all the arguments that the ways in which human society currently functions or operates can’t be changed, in order to make it the priority of human society to do that), are all arguments which rely on premises that can’t be proven, and again possibly the main or only thing that could guarantee in that sense that we wouldn’t be able to do that, would be if we didn’t even try, so again, surely we need to try?

        Within the current structuring again obviously a lot of action is taken to fight different causes of suffering and injustice on different levels of causation (though obviously not enough people within the current structuring are able or free to do enough to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice, or to successfully fight the structural causes of all the suffering and injustice in the world, to maximise benefit for people/humankind), but many people who use some of their time and energy to fight suffering and injustice use far more of their time and energy partaking in lifestyles and activities (including doing types of work or jobs mentioned earlier) which at least instrumentally perpetuate and propel/drive processes, systems and structures (including those mentioned earlier) which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice in so many ways (including those mentioned earlier); and again so much of that action people take to fight suffering and injustice is only aimed at fighting surface-level causes of suffering and injustice without being linked to any action to change the structuring that causes and allows so much other suffering and injustice (or to any action to make it the priority of society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…), 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 partaking in harmful lifestyles and activities (like those mentioned earlier) with the rest of their time and energy (and within the current structuring a lot of people 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 in the world and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for people/humankind (only intending any subsequent benefit to themselves, which they gain as a result of doing that, to be a secondary by-product of that), then it obviously makes sense for people to try and find the most effective ways of doing that (and again possibly the more effectively people are fighting suffering and injustice in the world and benefiting other people/humankind, the more effectively feelings of well-being, happiness and fulfilment will be generated within the people doing that as a result of their doing that), and those most effective ways of doing that again have to consist in and involve changing the current structuring that causes and allows that suffering and injustice, or involve and consist in making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways.  Obviously, within the current structuring, in order for a person to maintain their ability to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit or people/humankind in the most effective ways in the long term (and change the structuring, processes and behaviours of other people which cause that suffering and injustice…), they need to participate to some extent in some of the harmful processes (for example, in order to communicate with and influence as many other people as possible so those people stop partaking in lifestyles, behaviours and activities which cause that suffering and injustice, it might be necessary to use some processes which have an at least instrumentally harmful effect on others), but that person obviously needs to make sure that the benefit they are causing for people/humankind is outweighing any harm they might be instrumentally causing in order to maintain their ability to maximise benefit for people/humankind in the long term; the only way for a person to avoid perpetuating any harmful processes at all would be for them to live a subsistence life in isolation from the parts of human society which are causing that suffering and injustice in the world and which need to be changed, and that would obviously mean abandoning their ability to communicate with and influence enough other people so those people stop partaking in lifestyles, behaviours and activities which cause that suffering and injustice, as those people will continue to cause that suffering and injustice regardless of how much that person minimises the amount they individually perpetuate and continue those harmful processes themselves if it’s not linked with enough other action to change the harmful structuring; going and living that subsistence life in isolation… would mean abandoning their ability to change the harmful structuring of society which causes and allows the harmful processes and harmful behaviours being continued by others, so that person would actually be instrumentally causing more harm in the long term by trying to avoid any participation in any processes that are at least instrumentally harmful.  And as well as how time obviously has run out and is always running out to fight so many different causes of suffering and injustice or to save so many people’s lives, again such a massive more specific surface-level cause of human suffering and injustice (which causes and exacerbates so many other causes of suffering and injustice, and is already causing so much suffering and injustice), which time is rapidly running out for people to be able to stop, is that ecocide caused by the behaviours of so many people (and systems and structures like those mentioned earlier) which are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, as that ecocide 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 that (unstoppable) increase in the amount of human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species), which will be beyond human control (unless people can change those behaviours, systems and structures soon enough); due to the number and complexity of all the chaotically-interacting variables involved, it may be impossible to say how much time, 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 at the moment, we have to behave like we do still have time, at least to prevent the worst effects of that ecocide), and it’s possibly still currently within our control to change quickly enough the behaviours which cause that ecocide and the current structuring that causes or allows those behaviours.  So if a person tries to avoid participating in any harmful processes at all (and therefore goes and lives a subsistence life in isolation…), that would mean abandoning their ability to communicate with and influence enough other people so those people stop partaking in lifestyles, behaviours and activities which cause that ecocide and far worse other suffering and injustice or even human extinction (as those people will continue to cause that ecocide and other suffering and injustice regardless of how much that person minimises the amount they individually perpetuate and continue those harmful processes themselves if it’s not linked with enough other action to change the harmful structuring); and going and living that subsistence life in isolation… would mean abandoning their ability to change the harmful structuring of society which causes and allows the harmful processes and harmful behaviours being continued by others, so that person would again actually be instrumentally causing more harm in the long term by trying to avoid any participation in any processes that are at least instrumentally harmful; and that ecocide caused by those behaviours, systems and structures would obviously eventually also destroy the ecosystems and environments which that person (living a subsistence life in isolation…) can’t survive without, as well as those which all other people can’t survive without.

Again for reasons like those outlined earlier, humankind/we will never be able to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone…, until pretty much all people can unite in diversity and mobilise together to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… .  And if pretty much all people are to be able or free to mobilize together and unite in diversity to do all of that, or if pretty much all people are to have the motivation to do all of that, again it’s possibly obviously necessary to make ideological structural changes (including changes of values, aspirations, consciousness and ways of thinking) like those outlined earlier, and ensure that people are no longer misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm others in order to benefit themselves (or ensure that all people can acknowledge and act on the possibility that living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier… can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise benefit for themselves…), so that all people can free up their time, energy, agency and resources (as well as the massive intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination and other abilities people have) to find and actualise or implement the most effective ways to change the current structuring to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (including themselves) in the most effective ways… .  If not everyone mobilises together and unites in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society (and to make ideological structural changes of values, aspirations and consciousness like those outlined earlier…), then people who do unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that will not only be unsuccessful, but will be under massive threat (like millions or billions of people already are) by other people who don’t unite in diversity with them to do all of that, or by people who are still misled or coerced into believing that they need to at least instrumentally harm other people in order to benefit themselves, and who will therefore be misled or coerced into thinking they need to try to to stop people from being able to make all of that the priority of human society.  And as it’s currently obviously only a small minority of the human population within the current structuring who have (control of) the most resources, have the most power and are at least instrumentally causing the most human suffering and injustice (including by irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without) in ways like those mentioned above, there’s a possibility that even if so many other people unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society (and make ideological structural changes of values and aspirations, etc) without that small minority of the human population joining them, that small minority could carry on at least instrumentally causing so much suffering and injustice (including by completely destroying the ecosystems and environments which the rest of humankind cannot survive without, and which they probably won’t be able to survive without either), and could obviously use their massive amounts of power and resources to try to prevent other people from making all of that the priority of human society… .  Part of the purpose of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to call for those people with the most power and resources to also acknowledge and act on the possibility that living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier can be the most effective ways for them to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves (as with everyone else), so that they too can harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to also unite in diversity with everyone else to make all of that the priority of human society…, and harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to make enough of their excess resources (and power) available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves)… .  And there are again obviously many different forms and sources of power, and in so many ways, the more people who unite in diversity and mobilise together to 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…, the more power will obviously generated for that and for the people who seek to do that, for everyone…; and people need to use that collective power to ensure that no one can stop people from making all of that the priority of human society… (including ensuring that it remains the priority of human society to do all of that for as long as is potentially possible…), or to ensure that no one can take (and keep) power and resources from others to stop people from being able or free to make all of that the priority of human society… (and keep all of that the priority of human society).

 

        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 different causes of 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 humankind/we can end such massive causes of human suffering as poverty, conflict or ecocide (or do enough to fight the suffering and injustice in the world generally and maximise benefit for people or help all people in need generally), while only such small numbers of people are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), while only such small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to do that, and while people are still misled or coerced into believing the lies that in order to benefit themselves they need to at least instrumentally harm other people, etc.  The current ideological structuring with those harmful competitive mindsets and systems of values and aspirations 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 be changed from the way that it’s currently structured (including economically, politically and ideologically), or that there’s no alternative to the way that human society is currently structured (or that the current structuring can’t be changed, etc), when again all of those arguments (like arguments that the current structuring can’t be changed) are arguments which can’t be proven or which rely on premises that can’t be proven, and there’s so much more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to confirm them (as is outlined earlier as well as further on);

   – mislead and coerce people into valuing and aspiring towards the harmful lifestyles and behaviours within the current structuring, because they mislead and coerce people into believing the lies that partaking in or adopting those harmful lifestyles and behaviours is the most effective way for them to benefit themselves, or constitutes their best option, when those harmful lifestyles and behaviours can only possibly be perceived as the best option if people are to only think, live and behave solely within the confines of the current structuring (without trying to change it), and are therefore to massively limit (for reasons outlined earlier) the amount they can benefit themselves as well as others (partly as uniting in diversity with (all) other people to change the current structuring to make 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, could benefit them far more effectively);

  – mislead or coerce people into valuing or caring about the current structuring because it allows them to partake in harmful lifestyles and behaviours like those (which they’re misled or coerced into believing will benefit them effectively when they don’t), or mislead or coerce 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 partake in those lifestyles and behaviours which at least instrumentally harm others (when again uniting in diversity with (all) other people to change the current structuring in order to make 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, can be a far more effective way for them to find well-being, happiness and fulfilment);

   – mislead or coerce people into not wanting to take action to change the current structuring and those lifestyles and behaviours which need to be changed in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways (so they also mislead or coerce people into not wanting to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind in the most effective ways);

    – mislead or coerce people into trying to stop or discredit action to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or action to change the current structuring in order to ensure that all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world are fought in the most effective ways and that benefit is maximised for everyone in the most effective ways (again partly because that action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind in the most effective ways… will stop them from partaking in the harmful lifestyles and behaviours which they’re misled or coerced into wrongly believing are effective ways for them to benefit themselves);

     – mislead or coerce people into not seeing the point, importance or value of changing the current structuring in order to make 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, or mislead or coerce people into not seeing how doing all of that, by definition, can bring them (as well as everyone else) far more effective ways for them to maximise benefit for themselves… .

If humankind/we can make those ideological structural changes, including changes of values, aspirations and consciousness, and changes in ways of thinking and constructing characters (so that, for example, all people can acknowledge and act on the possibility that living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier… can be the most effective way for all people to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves…, so that all people can harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to live and behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier), it could obviously make it so much easier:

   – for humankind/us to be able to make the political and economic (and other) structural and systemic changes that are necessary in order for humankind/us to be able to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society), or in order for humankind/us to be able to affect and move the dialectics between political, economic and ideological (and other) structures, human agency, human thought and human behaviour, in ways which enable all people and human society to move in directions in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the primary aim and 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…;

   – for humankind/us to be able to change and eliminate the harmful structuring and behaviours in ways which don’t cause more suffering and injustice, or in ways which are holistically peaceful and beneficial (and other ways therefore might not be possible anyway);

   – for humankind/us to ensure current political and economic systems and structures (or other current systems, structures, processes and behaviours) aren’t replaced by other ones which also cause suffering and injustice, or if we are to be able to ensure that changes we make to other systems and structures (like political and economic structures) are holistic enough that they don’t also cause any harmful behaviours;

   – for humankind/us to ensure people with the most power and resources now can’t merely be replaced by other people who (in ways like those mentioned earlier) at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice (including by taking and keeping resources and power from people to stop people from being able or free to make 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);

– for humankind/us to find exactly which factors (including political, economic and ideological structures and systems) induce people to behave in any ways which even instrumentally cause suffering and injustice in any ways, on macro or micro levels, etc (and any factors which induce people to behave in any harmful ways obviously constitute causes of suffering and injustice on certain levels of causation), and for humankind/us to find and implement the most effective and beneficial ways of stopping that harmful behaviour (or of eliminating those causes of suffering and injustice), or the most effective and beneficial ways for people to be able to stop themselves from behaving in those harmful ways (and again there’re some circularities in this, but for reasons like those outlined earlier, it’s probably only possible to do all that if pretty much all people unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways);

   – for all people are to be able or free to harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, or if humankind is (or we are) to be able to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone… (making those ideological structural changes and changes of values and aspirations, etc, can make it so much easier for humankind/us to do all of those things listed in the points just above partly because it can generate more motivation to do all of that…, as is outlined earlier).

Any action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind which doesn’t address those harmful ideological structures and value and aspiration systems (including harmful ways of thinking) is possibly very limited in how effective it can be in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone.

        Possibly pretty much all people would agree that it should be the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, and two interlinked factors which get in the way of all people actually making all of that the priority of human society (or actually uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society)…, are that within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that it’s impossible to make all of that the priority of human society (or that it’s not possible for humankind/all people to unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society)…, and that not enough other people would join in making all of that the priority of human society (or that not enough people would want to do all of that, or be motivated to do all of that)…; and partly as a result of those two interlinked factors, so many people within the current structuring are misled or coerced into believing that it’s not even worth trying to make all of that the priority of human society… .  While again it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that humankind can (unite in diversity to) make all of that the priority of human society, again all the arguments that humankind can’t do all of that obviously also can’t be proven (or rely on premises which can’t be proven), and there’s far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to corroborate them (and the main thing in that sense or context that could guarantee that we/humankind can’t do all of that, would be if we/humankind didn’t even try).  For reasons like those outlined briefly above, it might only be possible to make all of that the priority of human society if pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that, and so many people obviously are misled or coerced into believing that it’s impossible to do all of that partly as a result of how so many people are misled or coerced into believing that not enough people would join in doing all of that or would want (or be motivated) to do all of that, but again it obviously can’t be proven that not enough other people would join in doing all of that or would be motivated to do all of that…; and while many different forms of action are needed to fulfil the following purpose, if enough people (or all people?) show each other (or confirm or declare to each other) that they/we agree it should be 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 that they/we pledge that they/we would join in making that the priority of human society (possibly showing all that in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge…), it could hopefully at least contribute to making it seem more possible to do that…; and it’s at least partly because so many people are misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves they/we need to at least instrumentally harm other people or compete with other people, that so many people within the current structuring are misled or coerced into believing that it’s impossible to make 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…, or into believing that humankind can’t do that (unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society), and that not enough other people would join in making all of that the priority of human society, or that not enough people would want to do all of that, or be motivated to do all of that (which again highlights the need to make the ideological structural changes of systems of values and aspirations outlined earlier). And while again many different forms of action are needed to fulfil the following two purposes (as is touched on further on), if enough people (or all people?) again show each other (or confirm or declare to each other) that they/we agree it should be 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 that they/we pledge that they/we would join in making that the priority of human society (possibly showing all that in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge…), that in itself could hopefully at least contribute to helping facilitate the necessary mobilisation and uniting in diversity of enough critical masses of people (or all people) to make that happen; and it could also in itself hopefully at least contribute to helping make enough space(s) in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society for all people to be able to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to do that; and as again there are obviously many different sources and forms of power, the more people who make another visible record of their support for making that the priority of human society and their pledge to join in doing that (possibly in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), the more power could be generated for people who seek to unite in diversity and mobilise together with (all) other people to 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, or the more power could be generated for people who call for all people to join in doing that (including people with more power and resources), and the more powerful that call for that can become, though again obviously so many different kinds of action are needed for that purpose. Possibly the more people who show, declare or confirm that they/we would join in making all of that the priority of human society, the more possible it will seem or be, and the more it can contribute to motivating or encouraging people or each other (or everyone?) to actually unite in diversity to do all of that; the only way that all of that (and making all of that the priority of human society…), which is needed if humankind is (or we are) to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, can happen is obviously if we (or pretty much all people) ourselves actually collectively make it happen or if pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to make it happen, and if pretty much all people create enough space(s) in the mainstreams (or all) of human society to collectively find exactly how we can make it happen (and to implement those ways of making it happen); again obviously this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge might not be a good way of going about trying to contribute to facilitating and encouraging that, but again it could be useful for there to be something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge to contribute to facilitating or encouraging that uniting in diversity, that collective mobilisation, and that creation of those spaces, etc, to find and implement the most effective ways of doing all of that… . Also, within the current structuring, so many people obviously have the will, desire or intention to do more to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for people (or everyone) in the most effective ways (and to make that the priority of human society), but (as is alluded to very briefly above) are unable to for many different reasons within the current structuring; within the current structuring, that will, desire or intention, on its own, often obviously doesn’t have much or any effect in fulfilling that purpose; but again if people who have that will, desire and intention to do all of that (but who are unable to within the current structuring for many reasons), can make another visible record of that will, desire and intention to do all of that (possibly in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), it could possibly cause that will, desire and intention to do all of that to have more effect or impact (than it does currently) in generating more power for all of that and for those people with that will, desire and intention to do all of that, and in making more space(s) in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society for all people to be able to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to do that… .

While some people obviously have far more power and resources than others within the current structuring of society, obviously no individual person, government, corporation, charity, or any other individual organisation (on their own) has enough power to do all that’s necessary in order to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (on their own), so it would be pointless for something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge to be sent to or directed at only one individual person, government, corporation, or other individual organisation, etc, as many traditional or conventional campaigns or petitions are; because again there are so many different causes of suffering and injustice in the world on so many different levels of causation (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied, and because particularly the structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice are again so extensive, pervasive and ingrained in almost every aspect of human life and society, again it’s possibly only possible to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and in maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and to make it the priority of human society to do that in the most effective ways…), if pretty much all people (in every level and area or human society) unite in diversity and mobilise together to do that…; so this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is again meant to be sent to pretty much all people (including people who have far more power and resources than others within the current structuring), by pretty much all people (or is meant for pretty much all people to send to each other), to again call for all people to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and to help facilitate (in ways like those outlined above) that necessary uniting in diversity and mobilising of critical masses of enough people or all people so humankind/we can actually do that.  And it could be useful to mention here another relevant consequence of how:
   – there are so many different causes of suffering and injustice in the world on so many different levels of causation (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied (with some causing and being linked with others in many different ways, etc);
  – particularly the structural and systemic causes of suffering and injustice are again so extensive, pervasive and ingrained in almost every aspect of human life and society, that so many people are forced to at least instrumentally or participate in, perpetuate and propel the harmful structures and systems in order to survive and even in order to maintain their potential and influence to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (so that so many people are at least instrumentally complicit in so many causes of suffering and injustice even if they don’t fully intend to be).
And that other consequence of those things is that, if people were try to create conventional or traditional types of petitions and campaigns (which are typically aimed at fighting different individual causes of suffering and injustice separately or in isolation from others, on surface levels of causation, etc), in order to fight every single cause of suffering and injustice separately (or in isolation from others) in that way, people would have to create those types of separate petitions and campaigns against themselves anyway, or would have to send or direct those separate petitions and campaigns to or at themselves anyway, and would have to create such a massive number of those separate petitions and campaigns in order to try and get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice on those surface levels of causation in that way (separately, in isolation from each other), that it obviously probably wouldn’t be an effective or efficient way to try and fight all those different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone.  Without addressing underlying structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice, and other aspects of the current structuring (which constitute other underlying causes of suffering and injustice) which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge seeks to address (such as how only such comparatively small numbers of people within the current structuring are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind…, and other aspects outlined above), it’s obviously not possible to get far enough in fighting the massive number of surface-level causes of suffering and injustice (separately or in isolation from each other).  Instead of people only trying to create such massive numbers of separate petitions and campaigns against themselves to try and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice separately or in isolation from other in those ways, it could be useful, beneficial, efficient or effective to have something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge which all people can use to call for and motivate each other, themselves or all people to unite in diversity and mobilise together to collectively find and implement the most effective solutions or ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including underlying structural and systemic causes of the problems) together and to maximise benefit for everyone, and to take all the different necessary kinds of action to actually make this happen (partly as that obviously covers or addresses all that those massive numbers of separate petitions and campaigns would, and possibly covers or addresses all of that more holistically, efficiently and effectively, with more reflexivity or flexibility, as well as covering and addressing many key factors which it would be harder for separate petitions to cover or address (partly as is outlined above), including how so many new different causes (and types of causes) of suffering and injustice are created in the world so frequently within the current structuring).   Again something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge isn’t enough on its own (and any declarations, petitions and pledges aren’t enough on their own), as again obviously so many different forms and levels of action are needed in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways and in order for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways (and it’s obviously not enough for people to sign a declaration, petition or pledge like this one without any intention or effort to take the necessary different kinds of action to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice effectively) which is partly why this calls for all people to collectively take all the necessary different possible kinds of action, and calls for people who sign it to pledge to do as much as it’s possible for them to do to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind in the most effective ways… (which obviously requires taking all the necessary different possible kinds of action which people can).  Again this obviously isn’t a perfect idea or an end in itself, but is just a means to an end which could hopefully be useful or helpful in ensuring humankind/we can get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and in maximising benefit for everyone.  This obviously supports all effective action for that purpose, and obviously doesn’t seek to replace any effective action for that, but just seeks to generate or encourage more of it and to work alongside it, etc.  While (for reasons outlined above) again obviously no individual person, government, corporation, charity, or any other individual organisation (on their own) has enough power to do all that’s necessary in order to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (on their own), people with the most excess resources obviously have more power within the current structuring, to take certain action that can contribute to making all of that the priority of human society (and more power within the current structuring to make certain changes to the current structuring to make all of that the priority of human society), than people with less resources, and this does call for all people (and in particular all people or groups who can be verified to have the most excess resources and power) to make enough of their excess resources and power available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways of making it the priority of society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways, and it also calls for them to acknowledge and act how doing that and fully participating in making all of that the priority of human society (or living/behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier…) 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 making enough of their excess resources and power available for humankind to collectively use to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone (including themselves) in the most effective ways, will obviously benefit them far more effectively than using their excess resources and power in the ways they do now within the current structuring.  Again no-one should feel threatened by this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge and any correlating action around it, as its purpose is by definition to maximise benefit for everyone… . (And again just in case the argument is made that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources to potentially do all of that within the current structuring) to actually do all of that, is obstructing those people’s self-determination and autonomy (and, partly as a result of that, is causing those people suffering and suffering and injustice), it might be good to mention here that if those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) are not actually doing all of that, within the current structuring, those people are obviously at least instrumentally obstructing the self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) of so many other people, and are at least instrumentally causing so much suffering and injustice to so many other people; and an obvious example of a logical conclusion of the argument that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) to actually do all of that is obstructing their self-determination and autonomy, is that calling for certain people to not murder millions or billions of innocent people is obstructing the self-determination and autonomy of those certain people, and partly as a result of that is causing those certain people suffering and injustice, & so on; this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for all people to unite in diversity to ensure (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…).

        And again in order to ensure all people have autonomy or self-determination insofar as people don’t obstruct anyone else’s autonomy and self-determination, this again obviously can’t prescribe or impose exactly what specific action people should take to fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world or to maximise benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways)…; again as there’s such a massive diversity of different contexts and situations in the world, which are so complex, etc, the most effective ways of fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and of maximising benefit for everyone in each different context and situation will obviously differ so much, which is obviously another reason why this can’t prescribe or impose any specific ways which people should use to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone; again the massive diversity of different contexts in the world and human society obviously means that, in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways in all the different contexts in the world, all people need to have self-determination and autonomy to find and implement the most effective ways of doing all of that in their own contexts (insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do the same), and prescribing specific courses of action would again obviously go against that; this ‘peopleunite’ declaration, petition and pledge isn’t to prescribe or impose particular means or solutions, and isn’t to impose anything on anyone, as by definition, part of its purpose is to stop anyone from imposing anything on anyone else (insofar as no one (else) is imposing anything on anyone else), or to ensure all people have autonomy, sovereignty, self-determination and agency insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s autonomy, sovereignty, self-determination and agency, so again, no-one should feel threatened by this. And for reasons outlined earlier, even if people are being motivated solely by their/our drives for their/our own well-being, happiness, and fulfilment, there’s no need for anyone to impose anything on anyone else (insofar as no one (else) is imposing anything on anyone else, & so on) in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves (one of those reasons being that living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier can be the most effective way for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves). This ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge again just calls for people to fully actualise their/our potentials for reflexivity, rationality, and critical, creative and holistic thinking… to find the most effective ways of fighting all the different causes suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone… in each context (in ways which don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same, or in ways which don’t cause (even instrumentally) any harm to other people…), and so encourages people to constantly challenge, criticise, question or interrogate (etc) those ways (and themselves/each other), rationally and empirically verifying (as far as possible) how effective they are, to ensure that we are all constantly finding and implementing the most effective ways of doing all of that; all people obviously need to fully actualise their/our potentials for reflexivity when evaluating the ways which they/we (or each other) use to do all of that, and be open to being questioned and challenged, to always try to find the most effective ways of doing all of that, for each other or for other people and themselves/ourselves (for other people and therefore for themselves/ourselves, or for themselves/ourselves and therefore for other people).  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 capacities to rationally and empirically verify things, etc, 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.

It’s obviously necessary for all people to acknowledge, embrace and encourage everyone’s diversity (or the diversity of humankind), and the diversity of the different ways people will need to use in different contexts in order to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, each other or others (for everyone) and fight all the suffering and injustice in the most effective ways in those different contexts (in ways which don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same, or in ways which don’t cause (even instrumentally) any harm to other people…); without true diversity of people (or acknowledgment, embracing and encouragement of everyone’s diversity), people won’t be able or free to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves, each other or others (for everyone) and fight all the suffering and injustice in all the different the contexts and situations which different people are in; and for there to be true unity (in or between all of humankind), all people obviously need to be collectively finding and implementing the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and 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 ways of doing all of that), so there needs to be diversity of people, in humankind (or true acknowledgement, embracing and encouragement of everyone’s diversity) for there to be true unity in humankind; and without true unity in humankind, people may not be motivated to ensure that the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice are found and implemented in all the different contexts in the world, and so people may not be motivated to acknowledge that people will need to use different ways of doing all of that in different contexts in order for those ways to be the most effective in those contexts, or people may not be motivated to ensure all people have self-determination and autonomy to find and implement the ways which are the most effective ways of doing all of that in their/our own contexts (insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s ability to do the same…), or people may not be motivated to ensure there is true diversity in humankind; so there needs to be unity for there to be true diversity of people in humankind (or true acknowledgment, embracing and encouragement of everyone’s diversity).  People uniting in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways therefore again can’t involve imposing anything on anyone (insofar as no one imposes anything on anyone else), as this true unity in diversity for that purpose obviously needs to involve all people being motivated to ensure that all people (or each other) have self-determination and autonomy (to find the most effective ways in their own contexts to fight suffering and injustice and to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or others and themselves…) insofar as no one is obstructing anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy (to do the same, & so on), and insofar as all people are also uniting in diversity globally to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (or each other) globally in the most effective ways (and make all of that the priority of human society…); it’s necessary for all people to acknowledge, embrace and encourage diversity in order for all people to be able or free to unite to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…. 

As well as how the current levels or amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind aren’t enough to fight even the current amounts of suffering and injustice in the world (let alone the far worse amounts of suffering and injustice (or even human extinction…) that will be caused, according to peer-reviewed science, unless people can change certain structures, systems and behaviours (like those outlined earlier) fast enough), the main types of action which are made most available (or which are publicised and promoted most) within the current structuring for people to use to try fight suffering and injustice, also obviously aren’t enough on their own either (partly as those types of action don’t effectively address aspects of the current structuring which, for example, cause and allow the situation in which only such comparatively small numbers of people are … able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind…, and which at least instrumentally cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways, including those mentioned earlier); people obviously need to be able or free to find and implement more other kinds of action (or more other ways) to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, including kinds of action which address and eliminate structures, systems and behaviours (or other aspects of the current structuring) which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice in ways like those mentioned earlier; humankind/we can possibly only find (and implement) the kinds of action (or ways) which are the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximise benefit for everyone or each other…, if enough spaces and social environments which allow free thought and communication are made in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for people to come together to collectively find (or empirically and rationally verify as far as possible) what those most effective ways to do all of that… (and to make all of that the priority of human society…) are (as well as if there is that unity in diversity, and diversity in unity, outlined above, or if all people unite in diversity to do all of that… and make all of that the priority of human society…).

If enough people (or all people) are to have the necessary motivation to collectively make the necessary changes to the social structuring to make 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… (and unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…), or the necessary changes (to the current structuring) to allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (for it to be possible to make that happen), obviously it could again possibly be useful and beneficial if the ideological structural changes (including changes of values and aspirations) outlined earlier could be made, and if enough people (or all people) can acknowledge and act on the possibility that living or behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above can be the most effective way for (all) people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves (which again so much evidence shows is a possibility); and it could obviously be useful and beneficial for that if enough people (or all people) can raise or spread consciousness and awareness of that possibility as much as possible in any ways they can, or can encourage enough other people (or all people or each other) to acknowledge and act on that possibility, as much as possible in any ways they can (and something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (which calls for all people to acknowledge and act on that possibility…) could provide at least one way for people to do that)…; obviously much more than that is needed to fulfil these following purposes (and some people obviously have more power and resources than others within the current structuring to contribute to fulfilling all these purposes), as is touched on further on, but possibly the more people who sign and share something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (and call for all people to acknowledge and act on that possibility) the more weight and power could be added to the idea of acknowledging and acting on that possibility, and the more something like this could help raise or spread consciousness and awareness of that possibility, or the more something like this could help encourage other people to acknowledge and act on that possibility…; that’s one way in which something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could at least contribute to helping in the overcoming of that underlying barrier (mentioned above), or could at least contribute to bringing about the necessary situation where enough people (or all people) have the necessary motivation to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (which is necessary for it to be possible to make all of that happen); or that’s a way in which something like this could in itself hopefully at least contribute to helping facilitate and lay the foundations for the necessary uniting in diversity and mobilisation of enough critical masses of people (or all people?) to make all of that the priority of human society… (which is necessary for it to be possible to make all of that happen); and that could also in itself hopefully at least contribute to helping facilitate or lay the foundations for the necessary making of enough space(s) in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society for all people to be able to collectively find exactly how we can make all of that the priority of human society…, so we can actually make all of that happen. 

        In order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, it’s obviously useful and beneficial (or necessary) for all people to have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all (controllable) influences which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to have the most influence on the most people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, including mass media and mass education systems (and all controllable influences generally), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, so that all people can expose and publicise to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people things such as:
      – any suffering and injustice they or others are facing, or anything obstructing them or others from being able to fight any suffering or injustice (which they or others are facing) in the most effective ways (insofar as they or others don’t cause any suffering and injustice to anyone else, or insofar as they or others don’t obstruct anyone else from fighting any suffering or injustice (which they or others are facing) in the most effective ways, etc);
      – any obstructions to their or others’ self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as neither they nor others obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy);
      – anything (including behaviours of other people) obstructing them or others from maximising benefit for themselves or others (or humankind) in the most effective ways (insofar as they or others don’t obstruct anyone else from maximising benefit for themselves or others in the most effective ways);
      – what they can empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible) to be the causes of that (or any) suffering and injustice or of those obstructions (in contexts they’re in or globally);
      – what they can empirically and rationally verify to be the most effective ways to fight that (or any) suffering and injustice, to overcome and eliminate those obstructions, and to maximise benefit for themselves or others (or humankind) in those contexts and globally, insofar as they or others don’t cause any suffering and injustice to anyone else (or obstruct anyone else from fighting any suffering or injustice (which they or others are facing) in the most effective ways), insofar as they or others don’t obstruct anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy), and insofar as they or others don’t obstruct anyone else from maximising benefit for themselves or others in the most effective ways, and so on. 

And in order for it to be ensured that all people to have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, including mass media and mass education systems) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s obviously useful and beneficial for all people (particularly all people or groups who can be verified like that to have the most control over those influences) to have the motivation to find out or learn from other people about things like all those things listed in those points just above.  And in order for all people (particularly all people or groups who have the most control over those influences) to have the motivation to find out or learn from other people about things like all those things listed in those points just above, it’s obviously useful and beneficial for all people to have the motivation to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other in the most effective ways… .  So in order for all people (particularly all people or groups who can be verified like that to have the most control over those influences) to be motivated to collectively ensure all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences, including mass media and mass education systems), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s obviously useful and beneficial for all people to have the motivation to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other in the most effective ways… .  And so in order for all people (and in particular all people or groups who can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to have the most control over any (controllable) influences which (can be verified like that to) have the most influence on the most people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness, including mass media and mass education systems, and all controllable influences generally), to collectively ensure in those most effective ways that all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of those influences), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s therefore obviously useful and beneficial for all people (and in particular all people or groups who have the most control over those influences) to collectively ensure in those most effective ways that all people (or each other) are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways…, and make all of that the priority of human society… (i.e. motivated (to collectively do all of that…) as much as can be verified (as described above) to be necessary for all people to actually collectively do all of that…).  And so also in order for all people (and in particular all people or groups who have the most control over those influences) to collectively ensure in those most effective ways that all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of those influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s obviously also useful and beneficial for all people (and in particular all people or groups who have most control over those influences) to therefore collectively publicise and expose to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people (or each other) certain things which it’s necessary (or at least useful and beneficial) for all people to have enough consciousness of in order for all people to be motivated enough to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), possibly including things which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls all people (and in particular all people or groups who have most control over those influences) to collectively expose and publicise to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people or each other, or to collectively ensure all people or each other have sufficient consciousness of (i.e. motivated (to collectively do all of that…) as much as is necessary for all people to actually collectively do all of that…).  And for all people or groups who have the most control over those influences (as well as all people generally) to do all that (or to be motivated enough to do all that), it could be useful and beneficial for those people or groups to also acknowledge and be motivated by things like those which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls those people or groups (along with all other people) to expose and publicise to a sufficient extent to all people, such as how living or behaving in ways which consist in uniting in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), can by definition be the most effective way for everyone (including those people or groups who have the most control over those influences) to maximise benefit for themselves, as is outlined above; and for those people or groups who have the most control over those influences, living or behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways would include ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of those influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, and (partly for that purpose) also ensuring all people are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…); or, for those people or groups who have the most control over those influences, living or behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways would include making those influences available for humankind to collectively use to ensure all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of those influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, and (partly for that purpose) to also ensure all people are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…).  And in order for all people to have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else) to collectively publicise and expose, to a sufficient extent to enough people, things like those in the points listed near the top of this paragraph, it would obviously also be useful and beneficial for there to be social environments which enable all people to, and enough space(s) for all people to be able to, collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own contexts and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on.  So in order for all people (and in particular all people who have the most control over those influences) to ensure all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s therefore obviously useful and beneficial for all people (and in particular all people who have the most control over those influences) to collectively make enough of those spaces and social environments in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society (for all people to be able to collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own contexts and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on), as well as ensuring all people are motivated enough to do all of that…, so we can actually make all of that happen.

And as it’s possibly necessary to overcome or break down those underlying barriers (mentioned above) in order for all people to be motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone…, overcoming or breaking down those underlying barriers could therefore also be useful and beneficial for ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all those influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else.  In order for those underlying barriers (mentioned above) to be overcome or broken down, it’s obviously necessary for enough (or all) people to be able to be conscious of the possibility that the most effective way for (all) people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves can be for (all) people to live or behave in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above (and in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge).  In order for enough (or all) people to be conscious of that possibility, it would obviously be useful and beneficial for that possibility to be publicised and exposed to sufficient extent to enough (or all) people.  So again, for reasons that are similar to those outlined in the paragraph(s) just above, publicising and exposing that possibility to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, could therefore also be useful and beneficial for ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else.  In order for that possibility to be publicised and exposed to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, it would obviously be necessary (or at least useful and beneficial) for those people or groups who have the most control over those influences, to make those influences available to be used enough to publicise and expose that possibility to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people; those people or groups who have the most control over those influences, possibly need to make those influences available to be used enough to publicise and expose that possibility to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, in order for:
     – enough awareness and consciousness to be raised of that possibility in enough (or all) people for enough (or all) people to be able to acknowledge and act on it, or to harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways…, as much as is potentially possible… (or in order for that possibility (or awareness and consciousness of it) to contribute enough to the breaking down or overcoming of that first underlying barrier mentioned above);
   – that possibility (or awareness and consciousness of it) to contribute enough to bringing about the necessary situation where enough people (or all people) are motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (i.e. motivated (to collectively do all of that…) as much as is necessary for all people to actually collectively do all of that…); or in order for that possibility (or awareness and consciousness of it) to contribute enough to helping facilitate and lay the foundations for the necessary uniting in diversity and mobilisation of enough critical masses of people (or all people) to make all of that the priority of human society… (which is necessary in order for all of that to be possible);
    – that possibility (or awareness and consciousness of it) to contribute enough to helping facilitate or lay the foundations for the necessary making of enough space(s) in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society for all people to be able to collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own contexts and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on.

And while again possibly pretty much all people would agree that it should be the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that it’s impossible to make all of that the priority of human society… partly as a result of how (or linked with that) within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that not enough other people would join in making all of that the priority of human society…, though again all the arguments that humankind can’t make all of that the priority of human society…, or that not enough people would join in doing all of that…, obviously can’t be proven (or rely on premises which can’t be proven), and there’s far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to corroborate them.  And if enough people (or all people?) are to be able to show, confirm or declare to each other, that they/we agree it should be 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…, and that they/we pledge that they/we would join in making all of that the priority of human society… (possibly showing, confirming or declaring and pledging those things to each other in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), in order for that to contribute enough to making it seem more possible to do all of that… (or making it seem more possible that humankind can collectively do all of that…), in order for that to contribute enough to making enough space(s) in the mainstreams of (or all of) human society for all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…, and in order to contribute enough to helping facilitate the necessary uniting in diversity and mobilisation of enough critical masses of people (or all people) to make all of that the priority of human society…, all the people or groups who (can be verified, as described above, to) have the most control over those types of influences (mentioned above) would possibly need to make those influences available to be collectively used for people to show, confirm or declare and pledge those things to each other, or to be used to publicise and expose to a sufficient extent to all people or each other how many (other) people show, confirm or declare and pledge those things to each other.

And in order for all the other things (along with those outlined more above), which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who (can be verified, as described above, to) have the most control over those types of influences mentioned above) to publicise and expose to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, to also have enough effect or impact too in (in ways like those outlined above) ensuring all people to have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all of those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else), and ensuring all people are motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…), those people who have the most control over those influences obviously also possibly need to make those influences available to be collectively used to also publicise and expose things like those (along with those outlined more above) to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people (as obviously for things like those to be publicised and exposed to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people…, those influences would possibly need to be used); without all people or groups who have the most control over those influences making all of those influences available to be collectively used to publicise and expose things like all of those to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, it obviously might not be possible for all people (or all of them/us) to have enough consciousness of things like those for all people (or all of them/us) to be motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, and for all people to be motivated enough to collectively ensure all people to have freedom of speech or expression with egalitarian access to the control of all of those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else; but without all people generally in every area of human society also collectively taking the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order to ensure that all people (or each other) have sufficient consciousness of things like those using any other means which can be used for that purpose (or collectively using all the other possible means which it can be verified (as described above) to be necessary to use in order to ensure all people have sufficient consciousness of things like those), it also might not be possible for all people (or all of them/us) to have enough consciousness of things like those for all people (or all of them/us) to be motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, and for all people to be motivated enough to ensure all people to have freedom of speech or expression with egalitarian access to the control of all of those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else.  Again, in order for all people to be motivated enough to ensure all people (or each other) have freedom of speech or expression with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, it’s obviously useful and beneficial (for reasons like those outlined above) for all people to be motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…; and in order for all people to be motivated enough to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, it’s obviously possibly useful and beneficial for all people to have enough consciousness of things like those which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who have the most control over those types of influences mentioned above) to publicise and expose to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people; and in order for all people to have enough consciousness of things like those, it’s obviously useful and beneficial for those people or groups who have the most control over those types of influences to make those influences available to be collectively used to publicise and expose things like all of those to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people (or for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who have the most control over those types of influences mentioned above) to publicise and expose things like all of those to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people); so making those types of influences available to be collectively used to publicise and expose things like all of those to a sufficient extent to enough (or all) people, is also useful and beneficial for ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression with egalitarian access to the control of all of those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else.

Again for people or groups who have the most control over those influences (as well as all people generally) to be motivated enough to make those influences available to be collectively used to ensure all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else), to ensure all people are motivated enough to make 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…, and to make enough of space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…, it would obviously be useful and beneficial for those people or groups (who have the most control over those influences) to also take in, acknowledge and be motivated by things like those which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for those people or groups (along with all other people) to expose and publicise to a sufficient extent to all people, such as how living or behaving in ways which consist in uniting in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), can by definition be the most effective way for everyone (including those people or groups who have the most control over those influences) to maximise benefit for themselves, as is outlined above; and again for those people or groups who have the most control over those influences, living or behaving in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways would include making those influences available to be collectively used to ensure all people have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else), to ensure all people are motivated enough to make 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…, and to make enough of space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that… .  And obviously the more people who call for those people or groups who have the most control over those influences (as well as all people generally) to ensure those things and make enough of those spaces and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all that, or to make those influences available to be used for all that (possibly calling for those people or groups (along with all people generally) to ensure those things and make enough of those spaces… in a way like signing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), the more powerful that call could become in motivating those people or groups to do all that (including in how it could add more weight to things like those which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for those people or groups (along with all other people) to expose and publicise to a sufficient extent to all people).   

And without all people or groups who have the most control over those influences making those influences available to be collectively used to make enough space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make 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…, it again might not be possible for there to be enough space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams of or all of human society for enough people or all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make all of that the priority of human society…, so that we can actually make that happen (and therefore, for reasons like those outlined above, it again also might not be possible for all people to have freedom of speech and expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all those controllable influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else).  But without pretty much all people generally in every area of human society also collectively taking the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order to make enough space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all that, collectively using any other necessary means which can be used for that purpose (or collectively using all the other possible means which it can be verified (as described above) to be necessary to use in order to make enough of those spaces and social environments…), it also might not be possible for there to be enough space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams of or all of human society for all people to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make 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… (as those spaces and social environments would need to be made in pretty much all areas of human society in order for all people to be able to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make 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…).  It might seem naive to call for all people to collectively make enough of those spaces and social environments in the mainstreams or all of human society (for all people to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…) without setting up or prescribing specific procedures and logistics for people to use to go about collectively making those spaces and social environments (and collectively finding (and implementing) the most effective ways to do all of that…), but if one individual organisation (not consisting of all people) was to set up and prescribe specific procedures and logistics for people to make those spaces and social environments (and collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…), it would obviously go against all people having autonomy or self-determination (autonomy and self-determination insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s autonomy and self-determination) to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to make those spaces and social environments in their/our own contexts and situations, or wouldn’t take into account the massive diversity of different ways which different people would need to use in different contexts and situations to collectively make those spaces and social environments (and collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make 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…); and it could obviously obstruct people’s ingenuity, creativity and imagination to collectively find and implement the most effective ways of making those spaces and social environments, as well as to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to make 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… .  And the spaces or social environments which any one individual organisation (not consisting of all people) can set up on their own for all that, can obviously never be big enough for all people to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to make 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…; or again till pretty much all people (and all organisations, etc) are uniting in diversity and mobilising together to do all of that…, we’ll never be able to get far enough. 
 

        People have obviously already worked out so many ways of effectively fighting so many different causes of suffering and injustice (or ways of effectively maximising benefit for people, etc), or have worked out so many viable solutions to so many of the problems in the world (ways or solutions which don’t cause any other suffering and injustice, etc), and with the massive intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill and talent (etc) which people collectively have (or which humankind collectively has), it’s obviously potentially possible that people (or humankind) can collectively:
   – find and implement ways of effectively fighting so many more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice (at least all causes of suffering and injustice resulting from human action or lack of action, etc), including the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice (ways which don’t cause any other suffering and injustice);
   – work out how to improve (where necessary) ways or solutions which people have already worked out (or make those ways more effective), or work out and implement new ways or solutions (where they’re necessary) which are more effective (again ways which don’t cause any other suffering and injustice).

But obviously within the current structuring of society, for many reasons:
        – not enough people are able or free (to use enough of their time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, or potentials for reflexivity and rationality, etc) to implement or actualise existing solutions (which people have already worked out) enough;
        – not enough of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for people to use to actualise or implement those existing solutions enough (and not enough spaces are made for people to implement or actualise existing solutions);
        – not enough people are free to or able to use enough of their intelligence, ingenuity, imagination and creativity (or their time, energy, agency, skill, talent, or potentials for reflexivity and rationality, etc) enough to work out and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice, to improve existing solutions where necessary (making them more effective, etc), or to work out and implement new, more effective solutions where they’re necessary (ways which don’t cause any other suffering and injustice), etc;
        – not enough of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for people to use to work out and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice, to improve existing solutions where necessary, or to work out and implement new, more effective solutions where they’re necessary, etc;
        – not enough spaces are made for people to find and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice, to improve existing solutions where necessary, or to work out and implement new, more effective solutions where they’re necessary, etc. 

Some people within the current structuring of human society obviously have far more power and resources than other people to:
   – implement or actualise existing solutions, to find and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice, to improve existing solutions where necessary, or to find and implement new, more effective solutions where they’re necessary, etc, and to use their time, energy, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, agency, skill, talent, and potentials for reflexivity and rationality (etc) to do all of that;
   – make enough resources (and power) available for enough (or all) people (including themselves) to be able to use enough of their time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, and potentials for reflexivity and rationality (etc), to implement or actualise existing solutions enough, to find and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice enough, to improve existing solutions enough where necessary, or to find and implement new, more effective solutions enough where they’re necessary, etc; or to free up enough (or all) people’s time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, agency or potentials for reflexivity and rationality (including their own) so people can fully apply their time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, agency or potentials for reflexivity and rationality primarily to doing that;
   – make enough spaces in the mainstreams or all of human society for enough (or all) people to find and implement the most effective ways to fight enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice, to improve existing solutions where necessary, or to find and implement new more effective solutions where they’re necessary, etc (as well as to implement or actualise existing solutions enough).

And it’s obviously partly because people within the current structuring of human society are misled or coerced into believing they need to at least instrumentally harm or compete with other people in order to maximise benefit for themselves that there obviously isn’t enough motivation or will in enough of those people with more power and resources (to potentially do all of that) within the current structuring of society (as well as others) to actually do all of that (to implement and work out the most effective solutions or ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone, and to make enough resources, power and space available for enough or all people to be able to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and to make that the priority of human society, etc (and to do all of that which is in the points listed just above).  But as again so much evidence to shows that living and behaving in ways which consists in doing as much as possible fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for (all) other people in the most effective ways… can be the most effective way for people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves (as is outlined above), it could obviously bring so much more benefit to those people with more power and resources (to potentially do all of that) within the current structuring to actually use their resources and power to implement and find the most effective solutions or ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (including themselves), and to make enough of their excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive and live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above) and power available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves)…, and make that the priority of human society… (and to do all of that which is in the points listed just above), as it’s obviously necessary for them to do all that in order for them to be living and behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined earlier (and therefore to maximise benefit for themselves…).  And so again (partly because it’s obviously possibly necessary for those people with those bigger amounts of power and resources (to potentially do all of that) within the current structuring in particular, to actually do all of that in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways), it could be useful if there’s something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge to encourage those people with those bigger amounts of power and resources… within the current structuring of human society to:
   – acknowledge and act on the possibility that (as is outlined above) the most effective way for them (people with those bigger amounts of power and resources…, along with all other people) to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves can (for many reasons) potentially be for them to live or behave in those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, and therefore obviously also for them to make enough of their excess resources and power available for people/humankind to be able to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (including those people with those bigger amounts of power and resources… in the current structuring)… and make all of that the priority of human society… (and contribute as much as possible to doing all that which is in the points listed just above);
   – therefore harness or channel their drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves to actually find and implement the most effective solutions or ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, and to make their power and resources available for humankind to be able to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (including those people with those bigger amounts of power and resources… in the current structuring)…, and make all of that the priority of human society (or to find and implement the most effective ways to make 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…), and contribute as much as possible to doing all that which is in the points listed just above… . 
(And again just in case the argument is made that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources to potentially do all of that within the current structuring) to actually do all of that, is obstructing those people’s self-determination and autonomy (and, partly as a result of that, is causing those people suffering and suffering and injustice), it might be good to mention here that if those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) are not actually doing all of that, within the current structuring, those people are obviously at least instrumentally obstructing the self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) of so many other people, and are at least instrumentally causing so much suffering and injustice to so many other people; and an obvious example of a logical conclusion of the argument that calling for those people (with those bigger amounts of power and resources…) to actually do all of that is obstructing their self-determination and autonomy, is that calling for certain people to not murder millions or billions of innocent people is obstructing the self-determination and autonomy of those certain people, and partly as a result of that is causing those certain people suffering and injustice, & so on; this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for all people to unite in diversity to ensure (in the most effective ways) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…).

But because again there are so many different causes of suffering and injustice in the world on so many different levels of causation (including the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of the suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied (with some causing and being linked with others in so many different ways, etc), and because particularly the structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice are again so extensive, pervasive and ingrained in almost every aspect of human life and society, it’s possibly only possible for all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, if pretty much all people generally in every area of human society unite in diversity and mobilise together to do all of that…; so this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge again obviously again also calls for all people generally in every level and area of human society (as well as (or including) those people with those bigger amounts power and resources… within the current structuring) to also acknowledge and act on the possibility that the most effective way for all people to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves can be for them/us to live or behave in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways outlined above, and so also again calls for all people generally in every area of human society (as well as (or including) those people with those bigger amounts of power and resources…), to harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other)…, as much as is potentially possible…, or to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society… (and again in ways like those outlined above, something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, could be useful in generating the necessary motivation to find and actualise or implement the most effective solutions or ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone…, and make all of that the priority of human society…).

So many people within the current structuring obviously devote so much intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, imagination, skill, talent, time and energy (etc) to types of work and activity which can be empirically and rationally verified to:
        – not fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people or humankind in the most effective ways;
        – obstruct other people from having self-determination and autonomy (self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy);
        – at least instrumentally so much cause suffering and injustice in so many ways, including those outlined earlier;
        – not benefit people engaging in those types of work and activity anywhere nearly as effectively as living or behaving in ways like those mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways which are outlined above in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge.

The mainstream and dominant discourses in the current structuring of human society are obviously so far away from where they would need to be to have the purpose of finding or empirically and rationally verifying (as far as possible) what the most effective ways 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); the entire framework which the mainstream and dominant discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring), is obviously so far away from where it would need to be in order for humankind to be able to collectively find the most effective ways to collectively 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).  Even the mainstream and dominant discourses on how people should live or behave (and on fighting suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for people), and the frameworks which those discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring) are so far away from being focused on fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society).  The idea or possibility of taking the amounts and kinds of action that can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order for as much as (can be verified like that to be) possible to be done to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified like that to cause and allow the most suffering and injustice) and to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and in order to make it the priority of human society to do all of that), is hardly even presented as an option within those dominant and mainstream frameworks and discourses within the current structuring, or is hardly given any serious consideration or space (or is hardly taken or presented seriously at all) within those dominant and mainstream frameworks and discourses within the current structuring.  What’s presented in those dominant and mainstream frameworks and discourses (or in the influences which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to have the most influence on people…) within the current structuring, as being what’s most important, what matters most, and what people should value most or aspire to most, is obviously completely unrelated to taking the amounts and kinds of action that can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary to do as much as possible to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or to make all of that the priority of human society).  Many people within the current structuring obviously think critically within the confines of frameworks which those mainstream and dominant discourses (on those issues) are confined to in the current structuring, but obviously don’t think critically about those frameworks, or how to change those frameworks so that they can be focused on fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society).  Or within the current structuring, many people think critically about options within the current structuring (which don’t significantly change that structuring), but don’t think critically about the current structuring itself, or how to change it in order to make 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.  One of the problems with those frameworks (which is touched on above) that those dominant or mainstream discourses are confined to, is that one of the notions which those frameworks are based on is that it’s not possible for humankind to change the current structuring to make 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, but again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to do that are all arguments which can’t be proven, or rely on premises which can’t be proven, and there’s far more evidence to refute those negative arguments than there is to corroborate them.  At the same time as how pretty much all people would probably agree that it should be 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, so many people are misled or coerced within the current structuring into believing:  

– that they can’t or shouldn’t hope for much more to be done to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, than is already being done within the current structuring; 

   – that they should think that the current levels or amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone are satisfactory and acceptable;

   – that it’s weird (and even unacceptable) to try and make it possible for far more action to be taken to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, than is taken within the current structuring (or to try and make it possible for far more effective action to be taken to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone, than is taken within the current structuring);

   – that it’s normal and acceptable to not try to (and to not be motivated to) make it possible for far more action to be taken to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone, than is taken within the current structuring…, or that it’s weird and unacceptable to be motivated to take more action to do that;   

– that therefore not only are the current amounts of suffering and injustice in the world acceptable and normal, but that also the even worse amounts of human suffering and injustice, or even human extinction, following the extinction of possibly over a million other species (which again, according to peer-reviewed science, will be caused by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current structuring of human society which are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, unless we can change those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough…), are acceptable (though so many people obviously aren’t informed of how that far worse human suffering and injustice will be caused unless we can change those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough…).

People obviously can’t let themselves/ourselves be dragged down into going along with not trying to (or not being motivated to) make it possible for far more action to be taken to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or to try and make it possible for far more far more effective action to be taken to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone, than is taken within the current structuring)…, and they/we obviously need to set the standards far higher.  And again, though many different forms of action are needed for the following purpose, if enough people or all people can show, confirm, or declare to each other their/our support for making it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and pledge that they/we would join in doing all of that (possibly showing, confirming or declaring their/our support for all of that in a way like signing and sharing something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge), it could at least contribute to shifting and changing the framework which those mainstream and dominant discourses currently take place in, are carried out in, and are confined to within the current structuring (or it could contribute to making more space(s) for people to find and implement the most effective ways to shift and change that framework…), so that those (and all) discourses can be for humankind to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make all of that the priority of human society); and it could at least contribute to helping ensure people aren’t dragged down into going along with not trying to (or not being motivated to) make it possible for far more to be done to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… .

Again if people/humankind can overcome all the underlying barriers which are mentioned above, or are addressed in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (or which something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could possibly help overcome, as is outlined above), it will be possibly be much easier to overcome and eliminate all the other obstacles which get in the way of all people being able or free to unite in diversity to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves/ourselves) in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society); it will be possibly be much easier to overcome and eliminate all the other obstacles which get in the way of all people being free to or able to fully apply their intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, potentials for reflexivity and rationality, time, energy and agency (etc) to uniting in diversity to do all of that…; it will be possibly be much easier to overcome and eliminate all the other obstacles which get in the way of all people being free to or able to make enough of the resources accumulated in human society available for humankind to collectively use to all of that…; and it will possibly be much easier to make enough space(s) and social environments for enough (or all) people to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…, etc; if people/humankind can overcome and eliminate those underlying barriers, it could free up people’s time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, or potentials for reflexivity and rationality (etc) so all people will be able to fully apply their time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, or potentials for reflexivity and rationality (etc) to finding and implementing the most effective ways to fight all the other different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other (and make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other in the most effective ways); and the more that people can make all of that the priority of human society, the more people will be able to free up and fully apply their time, energy, agency, intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, or potentials for reflexivity and rationality (etc) to implement or actualise existing solutions enough, to find and implement the most effective ways of fighting enough more (if not all) causes of suffering and injustice enough, to improve existing solutions enough where necessary, and to find and implement new, more effective solutions enough where they’re necessary, etc (and the more of the resources accumulated in human society will be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that…, and the more space(s) and social environments will be made for people/humankind to collectively find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that…, etc).  If it’s 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…, that again obviously means, by definition, that enough people (or all people) will be free to or able to find, actualise and implement the most effective ways possible of doing all of that…, people/humankind will be able to make enough of the resources accumulated in human society available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that…, and people/humankind will be able to make enough space(s) and social environments for people to find (and implement) the most effective ways to do all of that… .  This ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge again might be able to contribute to helping in the overcoming of those underlying barriers, but there obviously might be more effective ways to overcome those underlying barriers, and this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously calls for people to find and implement and actualise those ways of doing that, etc (and again if you have ideas for ways which are more effective in overcoming those underlying barriers (and which address all the issues raised in the text on the pages of this site), please get in touch to say what those ways are, and this will obviously support those ways).       

        Again this might all sound naively idealistic and optimistic, but till pretty much all people take ideas like these seriously, humankind/we will never be able to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world or in maximising benefit for everyone.  Again all the arguments that humankind can’t unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, are all arguments which can’t be proven (or which rely on premises which can’t be proven), and the only thing in that sense which could guarantee that humankind wouldn’t be able to do all of that would be if we didn’t even try; and till we try and do all of that, it’s guaranteed that we’ll never be able to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…; again the only way that all of that (and making all of that the priority of human society…), which is needed if humankind is (or we are) to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, can happen is obviously if we (or pretty much all people) ourselves actually collectively make it happen, or if pretty much all people unite in diversity and mobilise together to make it happen, and if pretty much all people create enough space(s) and social environments in the mainstreams (or all) of human society for all people to collectively find exactly how we can make it happen (and to collectively implement those ways of making it happen); but there obviously need to be ways to facilitate that uniting in diversity to do all of that…, and the creation of those spaces, etc, and again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously might not be a good way of going about trying to contribute to facilitating and encouraging that uniting in diversity to do all of that…, and the creation of those spaces, etc, but again it could be useful for there to be something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge to contribute to facilitating or encouraging that uniting in diversity, that collective mobilisation, and that creation of those spaces, etc, to find and implement the most effective ways of doing all of that…; for reasons like those outlined above, the more people who show support for something like this, the more this could encourage or motivate more people join in doing all of that, till enough critical masses of people can develop for enough people or all people to be able to actually make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… .

        Again this is only an outline of some of the reasons why 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 in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), and again obviously so much more needs to be added; if you have questions, comments, criticisms or suggestions of courses of action which would be more effective and faster in bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit in the most effective ways… (which take into account the issues raised on the pages of this site, 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 that could be more effective and beneficial.  Again no-one should feel threatened by this, as its purpose is obviously just to benefit everyone as much as possible.  Obviously a massive amount needs to be changed in order to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and to make all of that the priority of human society…), but that doesn’t mean there’s anything in terms of levels of benefit to be lost or sacrificed, and there’s obviously so much to be gained; again (as is partly outlined above) the action or behaviour which is necessary to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways by definition can bring everyone far more effective ways to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit) for themselves/ourselves, each other and all people.

Thank you very much.

All the very best,

peopleunite@peopleunite.net

Please sign this ‘people unite’

declaration, petition & pledge

(by filling in your name and email

address in the form just below),

& then please share it, if:

1

 – you agree it should be the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be the most effective), together with ensuring (in the most effective ways, as they’re defined just above) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy; and you call for all people to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above), or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively do all of that, as much as is potentially possible (as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible), as soon as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible (and for as long as … possible), in the most effective ways…;

2

 – you call for all people (including all groups of people) to acknowledge and act on the possibility that (as so much evidence shows) the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, can (for many reasons) potentially be for all people (…) to live or behave in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people (or each other) in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above) as much as is potentially possible… (including through not benefiting any person, people or group/groups at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on) and forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible… in the most effective ways… (including through ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit (or well-being, happiness and fulfilment) for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways…; so you call for all people (including all groups of people) to therefore harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to live and behave in those ways or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways (…) to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or maximize benefit) for everyone (or each other)…, as much as is potentially possible… (or to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), taking into account that in order for benefit to be maximized for everyone in the most effective ways…, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways…, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product; and as part of that, because the purpose of the steps implicitly suggested in the rest of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to help bring about a situation in which all people (including all groups of people) can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, you call for all people (…) to possibly harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to collectively take those steps;

3

 – you call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible…) what those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are (and you call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) fully actualize their/our potentials for reflexivity, rationality, and critical, creative and holistic thinking in order to do that, alongside calling for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) seek out, be open to, and critically/rationally examine/question all the evidence (including evidence about social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice, and side effects of actions or behaviours) that’s necessary for doing that (collectively verifying, as described above, how necessary different evidence is for doing that in different situations, as well as verifying the evidence itself as described above, and checking for bias, & so on), and to subsequently collectively take into account all the evidence that can be verified (as described above) to be necessary to take into account in order to do that, & so on);
   – you (obviously following on from or linked with that) call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (or collectively) take the amounts and kinds of action which all people (as much as possible…) can collectively verify (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively implement (as well as find, as described above) those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);

4

 – you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) have autonomy to collectively verify empirically and rationally (as far as possible) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, in their/our own (local) situations, are, as well as what the/the most effective ways of implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that…, in their/our own (local) situations, are (together with autonomy to collectively implement those most effective ways of doing all of that…, & so on), insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do the same, and insofar as all people are also uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (again as far as possible) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other globally…, or to collectively make all of that the priority of human society… (acknowledging and acting on how, by definition, in order for ways of doing all of that… to be those most effective ways of doing all of that… in any situations, those ways need to be ones which don’t cause any suffering and injustice to any other person, people or group(s) even indirectly, or which don’t obstruct anyone else (even indirectly) from living or behaving in ways that consist in maximizing benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) in the most effective ways…, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on);
   – you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) have enough power and resources to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for all people to collectively and autonomously find and implement those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), as much as it’s potentially possible for them/us to, or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for them/us to (insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do all of that… (or even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else), & so on), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;
     – you call for all people to use or manage all the power and resources (as well as all the intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, time and energy, etc) which they/we have, in those ways which can be verified (as described above) to be the most effective ways (…) to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (again as well as collectively ensure that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy), both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, again including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;

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 – you call for all people, and in particular all people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any (controllable) influences which (can be verified, as described above, to) have the most influence on the most people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness (including mass media and mass education systems), to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, & so on;
   – you (partly to ensure… all people have that freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else…), also call for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences) to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (i.e. ensure… that all people… are motivated enough (to collectively do all of that…) for all people to actually collectively do all of that…), possibly including by collectively exposing and publicizing to a sufficient extent to all people or each other (or collectively ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people or each other have enough consciousness of) things such as:

• how much suffering and injustice can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring (including political, economic and ideological structuring) of human society globally, and how that suffering and injustice is (or can be verified (as described above) to be) caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current structuring;

• how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all that suffering and injustice (which can be verified (as described above) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring of human society), in order to maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (or which rely on premises that can’t be proven); or how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice in the world, and collectively change the current social structuring of human society to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (…);

• how living or behaving in ways which consist in uniting in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (or in order for humankind to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), can obviously potentially be the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves or each other, as again so much evidence also shows (and how doing all of that… is also conducive to ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else);

• which social structures, systems and behaviours (within the current overall social structuring of human society) can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (primarily which social structures, systems and behaviours can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice), as well as how those social structures, systems and behaviours even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice, or can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize all that to a sufficient extent, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);

• which social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice which humankind needs to overcome and eliminate in order for humankind to be able to collectively fight all the other different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (and maximize benefit for everyone or each other) in the most effective ways…, or in order for humankind to be able to collectively overcome and eliminate as much suffering and injustice as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible to (and maximize benefit for everyone as much as is potentially possible…) in the most effective ways… (again with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize to a sufficient extent which causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be causes of suffering and injustice of that particular type, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);

• how so much worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (following the extinction of possibly over a million of other species), will, according to peer-reviewed science, be caused by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society due to how they are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, as well as how quickly that far worse human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction) will be caused, unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough (or how little time people have left to overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours to save those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), again all according to peer-reviewed science;

• which social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society will, according to peer-reviewed science, cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough), as well as how much suffering and injustice those social structures, systems and behaviours are causing already (and have caused) in many areas of the world (along with how those social structures, systems and behaviours will cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate them fast enough), and how they are already causing all the suffering and injustice they are already causing), again all according to peer-reviewed science;

• the amounts and kinds of action and thought which it’s (or which it can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (as much as possible…) to be) necessary for humankind to collectively take in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (again including ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible… (or in order for humankind to make all of that the priority of human society…);

• ways which any people in any of the different situations in the world can verify (as described above) to be the most effective ways (according to how they’re defined, and later elaborated on, above) to fight causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) and to maximize benefit for everyone or each other, in situations they/we are in (again without even indirectly causing any suffering and injustice to any (other) people, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes suffering and injustice to any (other) people, & so on); while again still ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people have self-determination and autonomy (to verify (as described above) if those ways are also the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, if those ways need to be adapted for their/our own (local) situations, or if other ways are the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, & so on) insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy (to do the same), and insofar as all people are uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other) globally… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);

• how many (other) people agree it should be the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, how many (other) people call for all people to unite in diversity to do all of that…, and how many (other) pledge to do as much as is potentially possible to do all of that…;

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 – you (again partly also to ensure all people have that freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences mentioned above (including mass media and mass education systems), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else) also call for all people, and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences, to collectively make (in the most effective ways…) enough space(s) for all people to be able to (and social environments which enable all people to) collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on;

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 – you pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order for you to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for people/humankind (in harmony (as far as is potentially possible…) with the natural world (or the rest of it), as well as each other) in the most effective ways (…) as much as it’s potentially possible for you to (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for you to)…;
   – you (linking with that) pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for you to contribute in the most effective ways (…), as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for you to contribute, to making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways…;
     – you call for all people to also take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for them/us to do all that as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for them/us to…, together with you and all other people;

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 – you (partly as this ‘people unite’ declaration, pledge and petition is obviously far from perfect) call for all people to collectively find and implement the/those most effective ways (…) to call for all people or each other to unite in diversity to collectively make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways, together with ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…

 

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(  It might be useful to give a bit of background here about some of where this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge came from, including about the person who’s working on it and who wrote all the stuff on this site, etc.  And to begin that I think maybe the most important thing I should say is that I’m obviously deeply flawed and hypocritical in a lot of ways (though I’m aware that a lot of the time when I’ve made mistakes and behaved in certain harmful ways, the reasons why I’ve behaved in those harmful ways have been very different to the reasons which people have assumed are the reasons why I’ve behaved in those harmful ways; or, I’m aware that a lot of the time when I’ve made mistakes and behaved in certain harmful ways, the flaws in me (which have caused me behave in those harmful ways) are very different to the flaws which people have assumed are the flaws that have caused me behave in those harmful ways).   Aside from that, I’m guessing that in order to say what’s possibly most relevant in terms of background about some of where this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge came from, I should maybe say that 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 (as well as many others); I began working on ideas around this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (which started as just a ‘people unite’ petition) when I was a teenager, and all the charity/activist work I’ve done since then (or all that I’ve learned through doing that charity/activist work since then) has convinced me more that 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 in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…); and while I’ve clarified and elaborated on a lot of ideas in this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge since I began working on it, the essence of it hasn’t really changed since I began working on it (when I was a teenager). I initially became a lot more motivated to work on something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, following when I had cancer in my brain 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 (as well as following various other things); and I know I haven’t been through anywhere near as much as so much of the world’s population (such as people who’ve been forced into extreme poverty and conflict, and so many others), but, as seems to happen to a lot of people in similar situations, going through a bit of pain myself due to that stuff (that I had the experience of) made me think a lot more about stuff 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 these kinds of things, I tried to help out far 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 (as well as others).  In the volunteering I was involved in for a few years when I was around twenty years old, I did stuff like raising around £10,000 a year for various charities through collecting donations with a charity bucket on the streets, helping raise more money through helping organise charity fundraising gigs and events, getting lots of people to sign charity petitions on the streets, taking food round to homeless people (or trying to help them out in other ways), and working 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 quite quickly put me in a life-threatening situation unless I spend many hours every day doing stuff to deal with those medical problems or to keep them in check (which sometimes seems a bit strange due to how based just on how I appear it might not seem like there’s anything medically wrong with me), which meant I wasn’t able to do anywhere near as much charity or activist work (or work to fight suffering and injustice in the world and help or benefit people as much as possible…) as I would like, which infuriated me more than I can put into words; there are obviously so many different causes of suffering and injustice in the world that it can seem impossible to eliminate or effectively fight all of them, or there’s obviously so much suffering and injustice in the world that it can seem impossible to eliminate or effectively fight all of it; it had taken me a while to work out obvious 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), as long as only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally)…, we’re obviously never going to get far enough…; it had taken me a while to work out obvious stuff like how, linked with that, while the means of fighting suffering and injustice which are publicised and promoted most within the current structuring of human society (linked 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 types of action (linked with those levels or amounts of action), on their own:
        – obviously don’t effectively address the problems in the current structuring which cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world to be (for different reasons) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (so that those types and amounts of action on their own obviously don’t effectively generate greater (enough) amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously don’t effectively generate enough action to do all of that, or don’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do all of that)…;
        – obviously don’t effectively stop so many people from behaving or living in ways which at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice, or obviously don’t effectively address or change other aspects of the current structuring (or particular structures, systems and behaviours (including ways of thinking 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 for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways)
        – obviously aren’t sufficient to overcome and eliminate or fight even 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 certain social structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough); 
        – probably aren’t sufficient to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those structures, systems and 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 structures, systems and behaviours fast enough. 
So it had taken me a while to work out other obvious stuff like how, partly because the structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice in the world are so ingrained in and pervasive throughout almost every area and aspect of human life and society (and for other reasons mentioned on the pages of this site), till something happens that’s along the lines of all people uniting in diversity to find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone, or till all people unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…, we’re obviously never going to get far enough; I was aware that that it might seem naively idealistic to call for all people to unite in diversity to do all of that and make all of that the priority of human society, but it seemed fairly obvious that doing that was something that needed to happen for various reasons (and it still seems fairly obvious that doing that is something that needs to happen…); again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge 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, overcoming and eliminating problems with or in the current structuring (like those mentioned on this site) which cause so much suffering and injustice, 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 maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, or for generating far better or greater levels or amounts of action to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or for calling for all people to unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise 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 maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…, I would be more grateful than I can express if you could get in touch and let me know, as obviously the situation is beyond desperate and like so many other people I want to do whatever’s most effective in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for humankind and the world… .  Partly in case I am totally wrong about all this, alongside working on this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, I still do stuff for different charities and activist groups (who work in possibly more conventional ways), which is hopefully a lot more effective than the kinds of charity/activist work I began with, 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 in the world and 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 like so many other people I want to do whatever’s most effective in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for humankind 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 quite 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/activist work (or work to fight suffering and injustice in the world and 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 needs so much editing, and is obviously incomplete as well as being unfinished, or obviously needs so much more to be added to it; it’s been quite a few years since I wrote a lot of the text on the pages of this website, and again partly as a result of that medical stuff, I’ve never had time or energy to read through all of the text on this website from beginning to end, to check it, edit it and add to it (as again there’s obviously always so much different work that needs to be done which can seem 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 massive amounts to learn, and again I know I’m deeply flawed and hypocritical in a lot of ways (though again I’m aware that a lot of the time when I’ve made mistakes or behaved in harmful ways, some people have wrongly assumed that there’s only one possible explanation for why I’ve behaved in those harmful ways, wrongly assuming that that explanation is that I must be flawed in certain particular ways which they have wrongly assumed I am flawed in, when there are other explanations for why I’ve behaved in those harmful ways, such as the actual reasons why I’ve behaved in those harmful ways, which are that I actually am flawed in many other particular ways other than the ones which some people have wrongly assumed me to be flawed in), 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 maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, and calling for all people to unite in diversity to do all of 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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