Everybody benefits from
competition
Animals did not
evolve to
be pampered, or to become a leader through inheritances. Instead,
animals evolved to continuously compete for
food, water, a place to sleep, and a position in the social hierarchy.
We need and benefit from competition.
Animals want to do the minimum amount of work possible. A
competitor inspires
us to put more mental and
physical effort into our activity, which causes us to be more
productive, think more intelligent
thoughts, and be more efficient. It also causes us to be more critical
of what we are doing
so that we can do a better job.
Without competition to push us into doing something, we
become lazier, more arrogant, and
sluggish. We become similar to a pet dog.
We must understand the value of
competition
In order for us to get the
maximum benefit from competition, we need to understand why
competition
is beneficial so that
we don't react to competition with anger, envy, cheating, or pouting.
An example of how ignorance about this issue can cause us to
misinterpret competition is a remark made by
Moungi Bawendi, who won the 2023 Nobel chemistry prize. He said that
high school was so easy for him that he never bothered to study, and
when he entered Harvard University, he assumed it would be easy, also.
However, he was shocked when he failed his first chemistry exam at
Harvard:
"It could easily have destroyed me,
my first experience with an F, the
lowest grade in my class by far."
His failure caused him to realize that he was now competing with people
who were more talented than his high school classmates, and he
reacted by putting much more time and effort into learning the
material. However, he interpreted the situation incorrectly.
His advice
to other people was to " persevere"
when they encounter problems.
His response is similar to the popular expression: "If at first you
don't
succeed, try, try again." That is the animal attitude
of continuously
repeating a failed policy. That is not sensible
advice today.
Bawendi believes that he excelled at Harvard because he "persevered",
but in reality, he excelled because he reacted to failing the
competition by putting more effort
into studying, and because he had
the
intellectual ability to do better.
To rephrase that, Harvard put him into a more difficult competition, and he
reacted by putting more effort
into learning.
He had the ability in high school to be a phenomenal
chemist, but he was competing with students who were so inferior to him
that he didn't have to put any effort into winning the
competition with them. Therefore, as with all animals, he did the
minimum amount possible.
When he went to Harvard, he was put into a competition with students
who were more equal to him, and so the competition became more intense,
and that stimulated him into putting more effort into learning.
Bawendi believes that he became successful because of "perseverance",
but he became successful because:
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He was put into a competition
that was more appropriate for
his particular intellectual abilities.
If he had chosen a college with less intelligent students, or if
Harvard had been giving good grades to all students regardless of their
performance, or if he had been a pampered, wealthy Prince who had his
own private chemistry tutor who gave him good grades simply because
he was a Prince, he never would have put much effort into learning
chemistry or developing his intellectual talents.
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He reacted to his
failure in a sensible manner;
specifically, by putting time and effort into studying.
He did not
react by cheating in the next test, or by sabotaging the
other students, or by having a temper tantrum, or by making excuses, or
by hating the teacher.
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He had the genetic,
intellectual potential to
excel as a chemist.
A person who doesn't have the genetic characteristics necessary to be a
scientist will never be a scientist no matter how much
he "perseveres".
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Bawendi is an example of how we evolved for competition. Competition
helps us to
develop our talents. We become spoiled, arrogant, lazy brats without
competition.
The existing competitions are idiotic
Our natural tendency is to
be relaxed, and not put much effort into
what we are doing. We put a lot of effort into our activities only when
an emotion has been stimulated by something internal, such as
hunger, or external,
such as when we see a dangerous predator coming towards
us, or when person competes with us for something.
Animals evolved an intense desire to win
their competitions, and so we put a lot of effort into beating our
competitor at whatever we are competing for. For example, when a
prehistoric man created a better flint knife, he would have gotten a
lot of attention and impressed a lot of people, and that would
stimulate the other men into competing with him to create a better tool
so that they can become the center of attention.
We enjoy competitions, but our ancestors never realized that they
should ensure that their competitions were beneficial. As a result,
individual people, religions, businesses, and other organizations
created competitions with no regard to their value. They have given us
thousands of competitions that are
worthless, dangerous, or destructive, such as competing to eat Tide pods..
To make the situation worse, our intense desire to win a
competition results in people putting a lot of time and effort into winning those
idiotic competitions. This is resulting in people developing worthless
skills, such as this
man who is/was practicing to walk 10 km in 8 hours on his hands.
To improve upon the situation, this Constitution prohibits citizens and
organizations from creating competitive events and other social
activities. The ministers are the only people who can authorize a
social activity, but everybody is encouraged to post suggestions for
activities. This puts people into competition to create the most
beneficial competitions, leisure activities, recreational activities,
customs, social clubs, and other culture.
The people who create activities or other customs that turn out to be
beneficial will get credit for it. That will help them qualify for
certain types of jobs, and it will improve their social credit score.
We must understand the purpose of our emotions
If a person doesn't have an
adequate understanding of his emotions, he
might develop the Marquis de Sade attitude that he must do whatever
brings him pleasure, and avoid whatever causes an unpleasant feeling.
However, when a person understands the purpose
of his emotions, he will realize that he will have a better life when
he uses his intelligence to
decide what to do. For some examples:
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If a person assumes
that he enjoys eating
because food is a source of
pleasure, he might decide to eat whatever is most pleasurable, and in
whatever quantity he pleases.
By comparison, if he understands that we
get pleasure from eating certain foods in order to make us eat the
foods that are appropriate for our body, then he will realize he needs
to control that craving and make intelligent
decisions about what, when, and how much to eat, so that he provides
his
body with appropriate nutrition.
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If a man believes
that he enjoys sex
because sex is a source of
pleasure, then he is likely to believe that the more sex he has,
the more satisfying his life will be, and that when a woman denies him
sex, she is causing him to suffer.
By comparison, if a man understands that the purpose of his sexual
craving is to entice him into reproducing and remaining with the women,
then he will realize that he
doesn't need a lot of sex in order to enjoy life, and he doesn't need
to push women into having sex with him, and it doesn't matter how many
women he has sex with.
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If a person believes
that his confidence in his physical abilities is
because he is exceptionally talented, then he might get involved with
activities that he cannot perform adequately, with the result that he
suffers or dies. Examples are the people who believe that they can
climb a mountain, or do a backflip on a bicycle, but who hurt or kill
themselves in the process because they overestimated their abilities.
Likewise, if a person believes that his confidence in his opinions is
because he is a super educated, super genius, he will be an irritation
to everybody when he gives them lectures, and he will disregard
constructive criticism and conflicting opinions, thereby making it
impossible for him to learn from other people and improve his opinions.
By comparison, if a person realizes that he inherited the extreme level
of arrogance of an animal, then he will realize that he must control
his arrogance. He will realize that he needs to look critically at
himself, consider other people's opinions, and treat other people as
friends rather than as inferior creatures.
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If a person believes
that his fear of something is because it is dangerous, then he will
impede progress by resisting new ideas, and make it difficult
for him to improve his own life.
By comparison, if a person understands that he has a fear of the
unknown because animals must be cautious with
something new, then he will realize that he needs to control that fear,
make intelligent decisions about what is truly dangerous, and be
willing to consider new ideas.
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If a person believes
that his desire to pray to a God, or bow before Queen Elizabeth, is
because that is what God wants, or because that is what we should do
when we meet a queen, then he will allow himself to be dominated by
incompetent and corrupt people.
By comparison, if a person realizes that his craving to become
submissive to people in leadership positions is
because that craving allows animals to form a social group, then he
will realize that he needs to control
that
craving and use his intellect to pass judgment on whether his leaders
deserve their position.
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If a person believes
that his craving to protect children is because children are "bundles
of joy" and "precious resources", then he will be horrified by abortion
and the euthanasia of children.
By comparison, if a person realizes that animals evolved an intense
craving to take care of babies because and animal's only purpose in
life is to
reproduce, then he will realize that he needs to control that craving
so that he can ensure that each generation is healthy, honest, and
enjoys life. He will be more concerned with the quality of a child's
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Evolution
depends on deadly
competitions
Nature puts animals into a deadly competition for life, and the
people who do not understand that, or who do not regard humans as
animals, will misinterpret the history of the human race. For
example, when they discover that most prehistoric children died at a
young age, they interpret those deaths as evidence that prehistoric
people were suffering. They
regard prehistoric life as brutal
and sad.
A more accurate view of prehistoric life was that the people loved
life. It was not brutal to the survivors.
It was brutal only to those who died
young. The adults who survived the competition for life benefited from those deaths because
it gave them a society in which they lived among adults who were in
excellent mental and physical health.
One of the concepts that this constitution promotes is that most people
are "average". However, to complicate the concept, the adults of a
prehistoric tribe were better-than-average. The reason is because
nature killed the children who were below-average in physical and
mental health. The end result was that the adults were
better-than-average compared to their children.
The same situation occurs with animals. The reason we never see any
sickly or neurotic adult
animals is because the inferior animals die
while they are young. This leaves adults animals who are
better-than-average compared to their children.
The only exception are pet
animals because they
are not in a deadly competition for life. A lot of pet animals are
sickly or neurotic, and would have died if they had to compete for life.
People who don't understand competitions will also misinterpret an
increase in the number of deaths as an increase in suffering, and a
reduction in the number of deaths as a time of happiness and pleasure.
For example, the Overpopulation document pointed
out that the eruption of Krakatoa might have been the reason so many
animals and plants died in 536. Historians
misinterpret the deaths as a time of suffering.
In reality, animals, plants, and people are dying every day, and
Krakatoa merely created a temporary rise in deaths for some of the
Earth's creatures.
Whenever something in the environment changes, there will be a
reduction in the population of some animals and plants, and an increase
in the population of others. However, the suffering and deaths are not random. Rather, the
lower quality individuals are the most likely to die. This results in
an improvement in the
genetic qualities of the creatures who remain alive.
An anthropologist or historian who doesn't have a good understanding of
evolution or genetics will assume that 536 was a miserable time for
people, animals, and plants. However, although every person may have
been inconvenienced by the changing climate, when
the climate returned to normal, the survivors benefited because a lot
of
the inferior people had died. They were now living among better quality
people.
The potato famines of Ireland also improved the genetic
quality of the Irish people as a result of the lower quality Irish
people
dying or emigrating to the USA.
This deadly competition for life is what allows evolution to occur.
Therefore, when changes in the environment cause the number of deaths
to increase, the event could be described as "an increase in the rate
of evolution," rather
than as a "time of suffering". It could be described as a "genetic
housekeeping", or as a "removal of genetic trash".
No
Pain, No Gain
Many athletes inspire
themselves with the expression: "No Pain,
No Gain". That expression applies to every type
of competition, not just athletic competitions. The free enterprise
system, for example, puts people into a deadly competition for
survival, although today we have a variety of welfare programs to
prevent the losers from dying. If we were to allow the losers of the
free enterprise system to die,
then we would improve the genetic characteristics of the human race.
That expression also applies to evolution. As a competition for life
becomes more deadly, more creatures will die, but that will increase
the rate that they evolve.
The losers of inspirational
competitions benefit
from it
All of the modern
competitions are idiotic, and they should be replaced with competitions
that do something to improve our lives, such as inspiring good
attitudes, or producing something useful for our city. The losers of
those type of competitions benefit almost as much as the winners.
However, the losers will not benefit
unless they have an adequate understanding of their emotions and of
competitions.
If a person is
ignorant about his emotional cravings, he
is likely to assume that he
has a craving to win because
winning will
bring him pleasure and make his life worthwhile. He will also assume
that the losers are going to suffer. This
can result in him tormenting himself and other people in an attempt to
win. This is most obvious with the people who try to win casual recreational activities. For
example:
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A person might
decide to cheat
in order to
win. This can hurt him by causing him to forever worry about being
exposed as a cheater, and he will have to continue to cheat in order to
continue fooling his competitors into believing that he is the most
talented.
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A person might
decide to put enormous amounts of his time
into practicing the competition, which can interfere with his
friendships, marriage, and family.
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A person might
decide to repeatedly purchase
"better" equipment or "better" training, and the money he spends might
put himself or his family under financial pressure.
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A person might react
to losing a competition by having temper tantrums, or becoming envious,
sad, or angry if he loses the competition.
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If a person understands these concepts, then he will realize that he
does not
have to win a competition; the winners do not need to
be given prizes; and the losers do not suffer.
Furthermore, he will realize that it is idiotic to get involved with
competitions that are worthless, dangerous, or destructive, such as
competing to drink the most beer within 10 minutes. He will instead
want to get involved with competitions to inspire himself and
other people, thereby allowing everybody
to benefit from the
competition, including the "losers".
Competitions
must be designed properly
Some of the competitions
that were beneficial in prehistoric times are absurd today. For
example, it was beneficial for prehistoric people to compete to have
the most and the best material items because that inspired them to
create better tools and clothing items. Today, however, our
technology allows us to produce so much material wealth that people are
wasting their life by
competing to have the largest collection of material
items, the largest house, and the largest yacht.
Animals enjoy competition, but they do not care what the competition
is. Modern humans must exert enough self-control to analyze a
competition, and design it to be beneficial and safe. We must design
competitions that inspire us to develop our talents and become better
people.
Recreational competitions can inspire us to get some exercise, and
intellectual competitions can inspire us to learn something, or create
something for the city.
However, we cannot create beneficial competitions unless we are willing
to acknowledge that each person is genetically unique, and that there
are differences between men and women, different ages, and different
races.
As mentioned at the beginning of this document, Moungi Bawendi did not
have a beneficial competition until he got into Harvard. Schools must
acknowledge that some people are more talented in certain physical and
mental activities, and they need to put those unusually talented people
into competitions with one another, rather than with the ordinary
people. Likewise, the ordinary people need to be in competition with
one another, rather than with the people who are below-average.
Furthermore, the transgender men who have been winning competitions
with women have provided us with enough evidence to justify putting
them in their own competitions.
We
must be able to analyze one
another
In order to create
beneficial competitions, we must pass judgment on abilities of the
contestants, and separate them into different competitions according to
their abilities. This requires eliminating secrecy,
collecting data on everybody's life, and passing judgment on
other people's abilities.
The people who whine that we are hurting their feelings when we pass
judgment on them, or who try to intimidate us into allowing them into a
competition that they don't fit in, should be
regarded as behaving like an animal.
Repeatedly
winning defeats
the purpose
A person who repeatedly
wins a competition is wasting his life
because he will be in a similar
situation as Moungi Bawendi during high school. A person who frequently
wins the competition should get into a more difficult competition. This
requires a significant change in our culture.
Every culture today is promoting the attitude that the purpose of a
competition is to win. A
person who frequently wins a competition is praised as a talented
person. We must change that attitude and regard the purpose of a
competition to inspire one
another, develop our talents,
get some exercise, meet new people, or do something useful for the city.
When a person consistently wins a competition, he should be told
that he is wasting his life, and that he is intimidating the other
contestants rather than inspiring them. He should be told to get into a
more
difficult competition.
Our culture should teach us that we should be involved with
competitions that we lose as often as
we win because we should compete with people who are more
equal to us. Our purpose for getting into the competition should be to
improve ourselves and inspire other people, not to win.
Repeatedly failing defeats the purpose
Repeatedly failing a
competition is detrimental, also. When a person consistently loses a
competition, he is likely to develop low self-esteem or become sad,
angry,
or envious. He might also decide to cheat. The people who repeatedly
fail a competition should be told
to get into a competition that is easier.
The people who fail should not follow
the popular attitude of "If at first you don't
succeed, try, try again." Instead, they should analyze their abilities,
and try to find something that they are more productive at.
Modern
humans rarely need maximum
effort in competitions
Animals regularly get
involved with deadly
competitions, so they put tremendous
effort into winning. When they lose their competitions, they die.
The losers are not
awarded a
second, third, or fourth place prize. Therefore, it is sensible for an
animal to risk his health and life
in order to win his battles.
Humans inherited that attitude that we must win. This
can be seen in athletes who come in 2nd place, but who are upset with
themselves for not
winning. We can also see this with scientists, engineers,
carpenters,
and other people who are extremely talented, but who become upset when
they are not considered to be the "best". We admire their talent, but
they torment themselves.
It is absurd for modern humans to put extreme effort into winning a
competition because we are rarely in life or death competitions. There
are only a few people, such as those in law enforcement and the
military, who actually get into deadly competitions.
Most people should suppress their desire to win
their competitions, and put the emphasis on enjoying the competition, and inspiring
themselves and other people.
If we are hiking in a forest and encounter a hungry wolf,
then we will be in a deadly competition with that wolf, and it makes
sense for us to put our maximum
effort into winning, even if it means risking our health and life. However, very few people
will encounter a deadly competition.
Today we need to reduce the effort that we put into a
competition. For example, when we are in school and trying to learn a
useful skill, we
should put only as much effort into studying as we can sustain on a
long-term basis. If the only way a student can win the competition for
good grades is by studying 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, whereas
everybody
else in the class needs only 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, then if that
student were to get a job in that field, he will be in a job that he is
substandard at.
He will either have to spend more time working in order to achieve what
his team members
achieve during the normal workday, or he will be less productive than
his team members, in which case he might be fired, and he might
irritate his team members with his incompetence. Either way, he will
torment himself and ruin his life.
The type of student will be especially detrimental to society if he
gets a job in which he can hurt other people, such as a surgeon. His
work will be inferior to the other surgeons, and he will need more time
to accomplish his tasks, and he will make more mistakes.
For another example, if a person is trying to become a construction
worker, but his body is so weak that the only way he can compete with
the other men is to take steroids, amphetamines, or other drugs,
then he will also ruin his life. He should get a job in which he is
more equal to his coworkers.
Ministers
must dampen the craving to win
Every culture promotes the
animal attitude that has been expressed
as: " Winning isn't everything,
it's the only thing!" That attitude encourages people to put
extreme amounts of effort into winning,
but with no regard to whether they achieve something of value by
winning.
That attitude causes many students to put tremendous effort into
getting good grades and diplomas,
but with no regard for whether
they learn anything of value, or
whether they inspire other students. The difference between a student
who
is struggling for good grades, and a student who is struggling to learn
something of value, is subtle but important.
The ministers are required to dampen our craving to win by designing
competitive events that do not emphasize winning. This Constitution
recommends not producing any type of trophies, or giving winners any
special attention or privileges. If the winners are to get something,
it must be something insignificant, such as a carved watermelon that
they share with everybody.
Some
people do not benefit from
competitions
Since every person is a
unique jumble of genetic characteristics, each of us reacts slightly
different to competitive activities, and some people react in an
inappropriate or destructive manner. For example:
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Moungi Bawendi
reacted to failing a test by putting more effort into studying,
but some people react to such failures with anger, envy,
cheating, apathy, pouting, sabotage, begging for pity, or
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Some people react to
differences of opinion by thinking about them and learning from them,
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Some men react to
women who turn down their request for
marriage by pouting, or by becoming angry or violent, whereas other men
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The people who have inappropriate
reactions to failures must be
regarded as having inferior
mental characteristics.We must acknowledge the evidence that the human
mind is just a jumble
of animal characteristics, and there will always be a minority of the
population that are misfits. They need to be restricted to
certain neighborhoods or activities, or evicted.
Government
officials must compete to improve
culture
Democracies put government
officials into a competitive battle to attract the most voters. That
competition is based on the theory that the voters are honest,
responsible, geniuses,
and that the government officials will create a wonderful nation by
doing whatever pleases the majority of voters. However, history has
proven that to be a false
theory.
To make the situation worse, modern life is so
complex that even the most intelligent people are confused about what
to do with their life, and how to deal with the problems of a modern
society.
Dealing with modern life requires that we work together
to analyze and
discuss the issues we must deal with. Furthermore, we will never figure
out
a perfect solution to our problems. All we can do is continuously experiment
with improvements.
Government officials should not compete
to appease the public. Instead, the voters must compare government
officials according to their ability to find improvements to our
culture, and provide the public with useful guidance and analyses. This
puts the government officials into a competition to improve society.
This requires the voters to ignore their personal desires and judge
government officials according to their achievements in leadership.
This creates the dilemma of determining who qualifies as
a voter.
It is difficult to determine who qualifies as a voter, and we cannot
expect perfection from the voters, but we can certainly figure out how
to provide ourselves with voters who do a better job of judging
government candidates and officials than the majority of voters in the
world today.
( More details are in the Voters and Elections
documents.)
Citizens
also need beneficial competition
People today
frequently get into worthless, wasteful, dangerous, and destructive
competitions, such as competing to set the world record
for the amount
of time to ride a bicycle while sitting backwards on it and playing a
violin.
The Economic Division is responsible for ensuring that businesses are
involved with beneficial competitions, and the Health and Social
Divisions are responsible for ensuring that the competitive leisure and school activities
are
beneficial. The ministers have the responsibility and authority to
prohibit the
competitions that are
dangerous, encourage bad attitudes, or waste labor and
resources.
The ministers must judge an activity according to its effect on
human life, not according to whether people like it. For example, what
are the benefits and
disadvantages to society of
the Candy
Crush
game?
Even if the benefits of Candy Crush outweigh its
disadvantages, the ministers must consider whether we would
benefit even more
by
putting our labor and resources into some other activity
or competition.
For example, they might conclude that we would have greater benefits,
or fewer disadvantages, by having the
computer programmers develop
software for robots to catch
mice, do
gardening chores, or clean our bathrooms.
The ministers might also conclude that the Candy Crush game can be
modified to make it somewhat beneficial, such as changing it so that a
person needs knowledge about nutrition in order to win.
Or the ministers might conclude that a different type of video game
would be more useful, such as a game in which a person has to learn how
to fly an airplane or use a bulldozer, or learn carpentry.
What
are the most beneficial competitions?
It
is impossible to figure out
which competitions are
the best, so we must be willing to experiment
with competitions. This requires us to resist the desire to mimic our
ancestors, suppress
our fear of the unknown, and be willing to try something new.
We must be willing to be critical of our competitions, and discuss
their benefits and disadvantages. For example, what are the benefits
and disadvantages to having chemists compete to produce the most
exciting colors of lipstick?
A more beneficial competition would be to have neighborhoods compete to
create the most beautiful
foot paths, bicycle paths, plazas, swimming pools, or lightning rods.
Competing to create the most beautiful neighborhood would be beneficial
to everybody.
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The Social Clubs minister must support public
hobbies, and that allows the Social Clubs minister to arrange such
competitions as designing the most attractive tiles for the city plazas
and foot paths, and competitions to make more comfortable and beautiful
chairs and tables for the restaurants, homes, and offices.
When we compete to do something useful for the city, and when there are
no rewards for the winner, and no tormenting of the losers, everybody
benefits.
When we regard competitions as a necessary and beneficial activity, we
will not be afraid to lose a competition. Instead of
worrying about who wins or loses, we will try to inspire one another and learn from one another.
We
must stop tolerating cheating
When we compete with people
who cheat,
we become
apathetic, angry,
disappointed, frustrated, or disgusted, and it encourages other people
to cheat. Even worse, cheating in certain types of competitions causes
tremendous problems. For example, when we tolerate students who cheat
to
become doctors,
scientists, engineers, carpenters, plumbers, and government officials,
we end up
with incompetent and dishonest people in those professions.
The reason we are so willing to cheat, and are so tolerant of cheating,
is
because we are a species of ape.
Animals have no concept of cheating, and no concern for how they affect
the lives of other animals. Animals routinely grab nesting materials,
food, and land from one another, but they do not regard
themselves as
stealing, cheating, or abusing one another. Rather, they regard
themselves as
taking care of themselves and their family.
Animals have no desire to earn what they want. In addition to grabbing
things from other animals, they are not
embarrassed to beg
for what
they want, such as when they beg humans for food.
As humans evolved from monkeys, we became better behaved, but we
still have those animal emotions. As a result, we frequently find our
emotions encouraging us to grab at what other people have. Although we
have a slight desire to earn what we want, we have no inhibitions about
getting things for free. For example, we do not regard large
inheritances as
"cheating". Rather, we regard inheritances as getting what we deserve,
and we
regard taxes on inheritances as an unfair "death
tax".
Some people are so similar to animals that they routinely
beg for handouts and donations, and they have created
lots of organizations that survive by begging, such as charities,
think tanks, and religions.
People who cheat are destructive
to society. We must stop tolerating them, ignoring them, and trying to
fix their behavior with punishments, rehabilitation programs, lectures,
and insults.
We must push ourselves into
becoming intolerant of
cheating and demand that everybody earn
what we want. We must also demand that everybody be concerned for how
they are affecting the lives of other people.
The Courts Ministry of the Quality Division is authorized to pass
judgment on when a person is so dishonest or inconsiderate that he
should be restricted to
certain neighborhoods and jobs,
or evicted from the city.
History
shows the dangers of cheaters
One of the important
lessons to learn from history is that we must ensure that everybody earn their position. The people who
are getting into influential positions through inheritances, marriage,
crime, and other types of cheating are an extremely detrimental influence on
society and our future. Three examples of how they hurt society:
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The people who get
into influential positions through crime are
detrimental because they constantly look for ways to eliminate the
people who try to expose or arrest them. They are likely to get
involved with censorship, murder, blackmail, bribery, false flag
operations, and deception. They are also likely to conspire with other
criminals to protect themselves and one another, thereby creating crime
networks, which is even more destructive than individual criminals.
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The people who get
into influential positions through inheritances
are detrimental because they pressure the government into
promoting inheritances and providing them with special privileges. They
are also likely to conspire with other cheaters in order to protect
their inheritances and suppress their competitors.
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The people who
become influential by creating religions and
convincing people that they are spokesmen for supreme beings are
extremely detrimental because they demand blind obedience, suppress
curiosity, and they encourage the hatred of their critics. Some of them
also manipulate people with the fear of hell.
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For example, many of the influential people in Europe have been inheriting wealth that has been
passed on for centuries. Many
of the other influential people are maintaining their positions by
suppressing, deceiving, censoring, murdering,
intimidating, threatening, bribing, and blackmailing thousands or
millions of people.
Some of them also choose a spouse and friends according to whether they
can benefit financially from them. That results in fraudulent, abusive,
deceptive, and disgusting marriages and
friendships.
One of the sad aspects of allowing cheaters to get into influential
positions is that the police and military risk their lives
to protect the cheaters. Another sad aspect is that the carpenters,
engineers, plumbers, and other skilled people waste their lives
pampering the cheaters with mansions and absurd amounts of material
wealth.
Talented
people have no reason to cheat
Athletes provide a simple
example of how people who are truly talented have no need to cheat, and
how detrimental it is to tolerate people who cheat.
The athletes who are truly talented have no fear of competitors.
Instead, they enjoy
competition. Some of them even train with their
competitors because that allows them to inspire one another.
By comparison, a person who can only win an athletic contest by
cheating has no desire to train with his competitors. Rather, he is
afraid of competition. He wants to suppress, murder, blackmail,
intimidate, or sabotage his competitors. He wants to be able to select
his competitors so that he can choose the people who are less talented
than he is.
Imagine
a world with talented leaders
If we become intolerant of
cheating, then we will have leaders who have
no fear of competition. Instead, they will encourage
competition as a way of
inspiring themselves and everybody else. They will not try to suppress, murder, or
intimidate anybody. Rather, they will encourage us to develop our
talents become better people.
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