NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple question. Who causes problems, and who should solve them?

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.

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.

Speaking of problems, you just duplicated one of the choices in your poll.

Too bad you can't solve it. :p

Damn it. I was originally trying to put in one about corporations, but I got bored.

If "I" means a condition I was born with, then I do.

If it doesn't, then nothing on the poll.

First to say 'alcohol' for both.

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. ;)

It'll be interesting to see how many people won't take any responsibility for their own stuff.

i am a married woman. all my problems are caused by my husband.

duh.

Meh. All my problems are my own. I try to solve 'em.

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.

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.

People actually admit they are the cause of their own problems! :eek:

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.

I swear, the cupcake forced me to eat it!

I swear, the cupcake forced me to eat it!

Suuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrre it did. :p

Bob Dole causes problems.

Bob Saget solves them.

*runs*

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.

Simple question. Who causes problems, and who should solve them?
Ned Flanders

Society/me creates my problems.

Somebody else should resolve them. I'm on strike.

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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Beer.

Heh shit what problems, isn't it all a matter of perspective?

Me, me.