There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
quote by Eric Hobsbawm
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All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
quote by J. Philippe Rushton
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Socially Acceptable Appropriate Key Life Skills
life's lessons are individual our own insights
if we do not learn master our own lessons
how will we discern know group responses
social skills demand learning experiences
socially acceptable appropriate key life skills
poem by Terence George Craddock
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
quote by Friedrich List
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
quote by Ulrich Beck
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Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
quote by Al Sharpton
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Life just 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react
Life 10% what happens and 90% your reaction on the happenings
We are free to choose
Our response in any given situation
But we are not free to
Choose the consequences of those actions
Our actions,
Those governed by right principles
Bring positive results
Dishonesty in dealing can
Bring social consequences,
Depending on whether or not
We are found out
And
Also are our natural consequences
Fix result of our actions,
Which Indian Philosophy puts as Karma
That means our choice of response, in a way,
Is our choice of consequences
The important and decisive factor in life
Is not what happens to us
But, the way
We take towards what happens
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
quote by Gail Sheehy
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions.
quote by Albert Camus
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Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
quote by Ben Edwards
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
quote by George H. Mead
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The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
quote by Huston Smith
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Sum Total Residue Life Ripples
lifetimes spent filling empty spaces
lifetimes spent desiring other places
people could spend a lifetime in this
world studying learning doing or not
belonging or not as you choose most
people cannot most need to conform
but you can and will define yourself
herd mentality conformity denies self
conformity imprisons social responsibility
compliance identification internalization
choose then informational social influence
choose also or normative social influence
information cascade knowledge peer pressure
age social rejection social norms youth culture
status public opinion immediacy group numbers
conformity normally leads individuals
to think and act more like social groups
herd mentality often rejects rationality
status individuals are occasionally
able to reverse lower IQ herd tendency
challenge change people peer groups
minority influence is a special case
of adaptive informational influence
minority influence is most influential
when group accepted admired esteemed people
can charismatic make a clear consistent
case for their point of view prime relevant
but when minority view fluctuates
shows uncertainty signs signals
chance of influence is small falls
however beware a racist minority
that makes a strong scapegoat political
convincing case which increases
probability of changing majority beliefs
changing majority beliefs behaviors
minority members perceived as experts
members with appeal high in status
perceived benefited group in the past
are more likely to implement changes
herein enters threat Hitler's disasters
minority influence can sometimes
override previous conformity effects
lead to unhealthy group dynamics
a single 'bad apple' inconsiderate
undesired negligent group members
can substantially increase conflicts
reduce performance in work groups
create negative emotional climates
hate malice racist mentality interferes
with healthy group social functionings
history advocates avoid these courses
does a coward mentality cop out reason
'It's more likely that I'm wrong than
that all those other people are wrong.
Therefore, I will do as they do.'
What does God free will advocate?
Each snow flake falling is different
each set of fingerprints is unique different
each eye retina scan is unique different
each scanned human heart is unique different
small differences are effect important
each individual voice is effect important
tally accounting of souls is important
remember Hitler Nazi extermination policies
people knew it was morally ethnically wrong
pressure conformity condemned victim souls
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Is The Battle Worth Fighting?
some individuals fight battles
with other individuals needlessly
some individuals are never long
content with getting their own way
some individuals fight ferociously
to dominate all those around about
some individuals who cannot safe vent dominate
their own desires seek to next dominate all others
some individuals who cannot control own emotions
seek to control all within range sphere of influence
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
quote by Dana Rohrabacher
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
quote by Charles Dickens
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Today, there are too many points of view of equal value and prestige, each showing the relativity of the other, to permit us to take any one position and to regard it as impregnable and absolute. Only this socially disorganized intellectual situation makes possible the insight, hidden until now by a generally stable social structure and the practicability of certain traditional norms, that every point of view is particular to a social situation.
quote by Karl Mannheim
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Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
quote by Marsha Sinetar
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The best way to avoid abuses is for the populace in general to be scientifically literate, to understand the implications of such investigations. In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. If science is considered a closed priesthood, too difficult and arcane for the average person to understand, the dangers of abuse are greater. But if science is a topic of general interest and concern - if both its delights and its social consequences are discussed regularly and competently in the schools, the press, and at the dinner table - we have greatly improved our prospects for learning how the world really is and for improving both it and us.
quote by Carl Sagan
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