I would welcome it. My own thoughts and experience only allow for so much after all. Perspectives on what I have missed or may be lacking in consideration help me greatly after all.
I would suggest that we need not be on mutually exclusive terms with regard to the question of a social contract amongst all of us all the same. Within the framework, it IS possible to provide for each according to his needs, and certainly, to recognize the value and the differences between us. We might learn from each other, even as we come together.
Consider it as...The ancient Greeks had their meeting place, their democracy, as limited as it was. One central experience, perhaps, but many other smaller, minor versions of alterity amongst them as to whether a man may be a doctor, or a soldier, or a businessman or scholar. And yet they came together, made all voices heard, and cast their votes.
Can democracy not function in the same way, with respect towards that alterity that you and I both share? I would not presume to think that we are quite the same, but that there are still things all men deserve regardless of what makes them different. When it comes to those things, to food, and care when they are ill, education, and a voice and the means to speak up and be heard, those are places that we should be equal. When we speak, of course, considering the value of words and experiences come to play, but the chances...we must all be subservient and dependent on all others, and what they have known. It is the only way that we can hold our ties to each other tight, and cling to the knowledge that we all support each other, that we pull together and respect even those whose votes do not become majority. Protection even for those who disagree, and care and a voice for all.
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Date: 2016-05-14 03:15 am (UTC)I would suggest that we need not be on mutually exclusive terms with regard to the question of a social contract amongst all of us all the same. Within the framework, it IS possible to provide for each according to his needs, and certainly, to recognize the value and the differences between us. We might learn from each other, even as we come together.
Consider it as...The ancient Greeks had their meeting place, their democracy, as limited as it was. One central experience, perhaps, but many other smaller, minor versions of alterity amongst them as to whether a man may be a doctor, or a soldier, or a businessman or scholar. And yet they came together, made all voices heard, and cast their votes.
Can democracy not function in the same way, with respect towards that alterity that you and I both share? I would not presume to think that we are quite the same, but that there are still things all men deserve regardless of what makes them different. When it comes to those things, to food, and care when they are ill, education, and a voice and the means to speak up and be heard, those are places that we should be equal. When we speak, of course, considering the value of words and experiences come to play, but the chances...we must all be subservient and dependent on all others, and what they have known. It is the only way that we can hold our ties to each other tight, and cling to the knowledge that we all support each other, that we pull together and respect even those whose votes do not become majority. Protection even for those who disagree, and care and a voice for all.
I fail to see those concepts negating much.
And is that all? I doubt it very much, monsieur.