NationStates Jolt Archive


Who causes and can solve most of your problems?

Coltstania
14-02-2007, 04:30
Simple question. Who causes problems, and who should solve them?
Infinite Revolution
14-02-2007, 04:38
i cause all my problems and i can fix them. the state, through mismanagement, causes, or perpetuates a system that causes, a lot of society's problems. for lack of a current alternative the government in power should do everything it can to solve these problems.
Coltstania
14-02-2007, 04:39
i cause all my problems and i can fix them. the state, through mismanagement, causes, or perpetuates a system that causes, a lot of society's problems. for lack of a current alternative the government in power should do everything it can to solve these problems.
Hmm. When I say should, I mean should and could. I'll try and clarify that.
Rhaomi
14-02-2007, 04:39
Speaking of problems, you just duplicated one of the choices in your poll.

Too bad you can't solve it. :p
Coltstania
14-02-2007, 04:40
Damn it. I was originally trying to put in one about corporations, but I got bored.
Nadkor
14-02-2007, 04:43
If "I" means a condition I was born with, then I do.

If it doesn't, then nothing on the poll.
Monkeypimp
14-02-2007, 04:49
First to say 'alcohol' for both.
Smunkeeville
14-02-2007, 04:50
I cause most of my problems, I can solve most of them too, the ones I can't probably could have been prevented if I wasn't goofing off. ;)
Layarteb
14-02-2007, 04:50
It'll be interesting to see how many people won't take any responsibility for their own stuff.
Ashmoria
14-02-2007, 04:51
i am a married woman. all my problems are caused by my husband.

duh.
Maraque
14-02-2007, 04:53
Meh. All my problems are my own. I try to solve 'em.
Nadkor
14-02-2007, 04:58
It'll be interesting to see how many people won't take any responsibility for their own stuff.

Well, some of us do have serious problems that are largely out of our control.
Ashmoria
14-02-2007, 05:25
i dont have the sorts of problems that are caused by the government or corporations. they dont cause them, they cant fix them.

my problems are my own.
Utracia
14-02-2007, 05:35
People actually admit they are the cause of their own problems! :eek:
Poliwanacraca
14-02-2007, 05:38
Most of my problems are caused neither by the government nor myself. The government could reasonably help with some of them, I can reasonably help with (though not exactly "solve," or I would have done so already) others, and some are really not within anyone's control.
IL Ruffino
14-02-2007, 05:42
I swear, the cupcake forced me to eat it!
Utracia
14-02-2007, 05:45
I swear, the cupcake forced me to eat it!

Suuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrre it did. :p
Congo--Kinshasa
14-02-2007, 05:45
Bob Dole causes problems.

Bob Saget solves them.

*runs*
Zilam
14-02-2007, 06:40
Our immoral, anti-christian, anti-white man society creates all problems


My guns solve those problems

/redneck from texas.


Actually, i'd say my problems are caused by me

and are solved by me.
Harlesburg
14-02-2007, 11:49
Simple question. Who causes problems, and who should solve them?
Ned Flanders
The blessed Chris
14-02-2007, 13:47
Society/me creates my problems.

Somebody else should resolve them. I'm on strike.
Cameroi
14-02-2007, 14:17
none of the above. rather the incentives created by the defacto consensus of the priorities each of us live by, statisticly combined, motivate the policies and decisions that shape the kind of conditions we all have to experience living in.

it IS us. and it is, in a sense, a lack of forethought and self dicipline. but it isn't just ourselves INDIVIDUALY but what resaults from the combination of all of us togather.

whatever gods, governments, or anything else exist, and governments are as much a symtom as anything, it is ourseves and only ourselves, more often togather then individualy, that can avoid messing everything up for each other.

that being said however, there IS NO justification for the existence of any government in any from without that it must compensate for the burdens of its existence.

without welfare and infrastructure, there is no REASON, other then dishonesty , corruption, belligerance on the part of those forming it and insisting upon its existence, for there to BE any such thing as any soverign hierarchy, whatever its idiology, economics or structure.

i think this idea of making everything have to begin and end with little green pieces of paper is more then anything the cause of the problems that if the generosity of nature were not withheld by it and people kept from it by doing so, would simply, for the most part, not exist.

you CAN build shelter from things you find in nature. it is only private ownership of land and building codes that prevents anyone from doing so and thereby creates homelessness, among other things.

and that's just one example. probably the simplest. many of them are far more complex. but the underlying principal is the same.

and these governments, idiologies and so on, do exist, and exist only, by a kind of defacto consensus, and or the momentum of such consensi having existed.

not that their behavior at any given point in time actualy represents anyones wishes.

but again wishes, stated or even immagined, arn't the opperative force, and neither are gods, demons or little furry green things from alpha centauri (unless you happen to live on a planet orbiting alpha centauri and be a little furry green thing from there), but rather the defacto priorities we ACTUALY LIVE BY, with or without choosing or even knowing that we do, that 'collectively' ARE.

another more succinct synopsized way of saying that would be to say that core cultural values are the causes and solutions of most, nearly all, of the suffering and harm, most, nearly all, to one degree or another, of us face, one way or another.

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Ifreann
14-02-2007, 14:18
Beer.
Peepelonia
14-02-2007, 14:48
Heh shit what problems, isn't it all a matter of perspective?
Andaluciae
14-02-2007, 14:49
Me, me.