To those who ascribe themselves to Atheists...

[Gator]

Do we need to agree? perhaps it is better to have choices according to our dispositions? Ultimately we play to win.....so perhaps what matters is, whatever game we choose, we play it well and play to win?


-----only the prize at the end might be differ according to the game of our choice.....

I was coming at this from more of a societal basis. If people want to live together to make a successful community, they have to have some common rules to which they adhere to.

We can cooperate so that we all win.

 

[siam]

I was coming at this from more of a societal basis. If people want to live together to make a successful community, they have to have some common rules to which they adhere to.

We can cooperate so that we all win.

I have been thinking about what might make a "successful community". I do agree about rules/law---but I also think we have too much of it---these "laws" are being used as band-aid solutions to social problems because we don't want to make the effort to solve the root causes.....take crime for example---some of it is a social problem caused by lack of opportunities, lack of good education, an environment of dispair...etc ....these can be solved---and crime can be somewhat reduced----but no one wants to bother, and instead we end up making tougher and tougher "laws" that put more and more people into jail.
.........Yet, time is spent catering to the needs of the superrich--bailouts, tax loopholes, favourable accounting practices....etc....
This type of society only creates a few winners and a lot of losers. To have a society in which everyone can win---one needs to have clear expectations about responsibility...everyone should have an equal opportunity to create wealth, those that are better at it must have the responsibility of helping out those who are not so good at it, the governments should be responsible for the welfare of all of its citizens---not simply cater to the needs of the rich and powerful......and all that stuff....

I think it was ibn Khaldun (14th century) who wrote that high taxes and large armies stifle bussiness enterprises ...so the opposite should be the government policy....sounds good to me.