What do you think could be done to improve the quality of society?

We've all got certain things we think degrade the quality of society, whether it be religious, racial, and/or other types of intolerance, bad parenting, bad governing, etc.

So when you've identified what you dislike or what you think should be improved, how do you suppose we can solve it?

Don't be bound by what is "realistic", if it can be done, however radical, then it's fair game. Hell, even if it's not realistic.

I for one, would get rid of non-informative television programs, corporate lobbies, the electoral college, teens would not be allowed to get pregnant, nor would anyone who didn't pass a certain examination. If they got pregnant, they would have forced abortions and be given fines for their offense. I also think that every person should be psychologically analyzed and treated regularly. It would be mandatory for all kids to be forced to go to school, as well as learn and understand the material. They would be kept in school until they get it right.

Everyone would be taught critical thinking skills, logic, and basic moral doctrines that they would be unknowingly tested on and would pass school based on their lifestyles and choices, not just by doing homework.

Pretty much, I want to be Big Brother.

What about you?

Society isnever gonna improve, NEVER. Its just natural that the strong will pick on the weak. I mean its sad but its true. Trying to control people is like squezing sand, the more you clench the more that falls out.

Society isnever gonna improve, NEVER. Its just natural that the strong will pick on the weak. I mean its sad but its true. Trying to control people is like squezing sand, the more you clench the more that falls out.

pl4yer_f0und

Force everyone to listen to Bjork... then society would be magical...

Stick a knife in Lil Wayne's spine

There is a rather big issue with you enacting these ideas. You are human. That means you could never be entirely fair nor unbiased. Which means your entire system would in the end be corrupt and just you forcing your isolated personal world ideals onto the actual world. Unless you are a man, woman, been pregnant, have had an abortion and at the same time never had one out of conviction. Also, if you were both a 4.0GPA for the entirety of school, and fully understand everything that has been taught by the world wide educational system. I can go on...

What i said above is why I never feel i can improve something as big as society. Everyone wants to run things their way, or compromise with the best option to get what they want, and want to see others follow.

Society isnever gonna improve, NEVER. Its just natural that the strong will pick on the weak. I mean its sad but its true. Trying to control people is like squezing sand, the more you clench the more that falls out.

Take all the money from the rich and give to the poor as absurd as that soun........ oh wait.

first of all make religion manditory we have too many uneducated kids going around!

make the school system more better, better english classes and better religion class!

Give money to poor and make poor rich

Thats it pretty much.....

first of all make religion manditory we have too many uneducated kids going around!

make the school system more better, better english classes and better religion class!

Give money to poor and make poor rich

Thats it pretty much.....

first of all make religion manditory we have too many uneducated kids going around!

make the school system more better, better english classes and better religion class!

Give money to poor and make poor rich

Thats it pretty much.....

cyborg9

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first of all make religion manditory we have too many uneducated kids going around!

make the school system more better, better english classes and better religion class!

Give money to poor and make poor rich

Thats it pretty much.....

mems_1224

We can change that ;)

I would want a world wide language and sign language that everyone was taught. It would make communicating much easier. This would require education services to become easily available everywhere in the world, though.

Get rid of all religions. If you look at most of the world's problems today they all spawn from religous arguements. If everyone puts aside religion and simply says we believe in God the world would be a far better place.
Also people need more knowledge, there are so many things about this world that we don't know but the information is out there but people aren't prepared to research and find out. If people researched more stuff a lot of problems wouldn't exist today.

I would want a world wide language and sign language that everyone was taught. It would make communicating much easier. This would require education services to become easily available everywhere in the world, though.

CammiTac

Calling people to look to God as their source and provider, rather than relying on our own supposed righteousness.

why would you improve the quality when you can just take advantage of less intelligent people by selling them over priced junk?

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I would want a world wide language and sign language that everyone was taught. It would make communicating much easier. This would require education services to become easily available everywhere in the world, though.

DmadFearmonger

Because everyone has different cultures and traditions. So why should everyone have to drop thier traditions for the sake of anyone else.

- Find a way to redistribute wealth without hurting economic growth or being very unfair to the upper class (way easier said than done).

- Put more value in education. We are way to worried about the hear and now to understand that we are hurting our future.

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I would want a world wide language and sign language that everyone was taught. It would make communicating much easier. This would require education services to become easily available everywhere in the world, though.

DmadFearmonger

I would do a few things.Firstly, I would revolutionise the education system.

Between Year 1 and Year 6 students would undertake English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Foreign Language, Sport and Life Skills classes. These subjects would be taught in 1-hour classes, 4 times a week (32 hour week).Each class would be graded into 'Advanced', 'Intermediate', and 'Basic', with each graded level learning more in-depth content then the one below it. Every 6 months an assignment and an examination would be set that would determine ranks, and if a student was to 'improve' their rank, they would be required to undertake a 2 week course during their holidays to catch up on the different material. Every student who is in 'Advanced' classes gets $100 per class, whilst an improvement in rank gets the student $250 per class. That adds incentive for students to work hard.

Between Year 7 and Year 9 students would be required to undertake the same subjects as above, but also Technology and Creative Arts. These extra three subjects would fit in through decreasing all but Mathematics, Science, and English to three 1-hour classes a week (33 hour week). Technology will be divided into 'Electronics', 'Information Technology', 'Agriculture', 'Woodwork', 'Metalwork', and 'Food', where students will undertake 6 months of each. Creative Arts will be divided into 'Music', 'Drama', and 'Visual Arts', where students will undertake a year of each. Classes again will be graded, except for Technology and Creative Arts, and rewards will be given.

Between Year 9 and Year 11 students would be required to undertake 3 hours each of English, Mathematics, Science, Foreign Language, and Humanities. However the remaining 20 hours a week (5x4 hour subjects) would be from a list of specialised subjects. These subjects would branch from specific areas. For example, from the science area subjects offered would include Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth and Environmentmal Studies. Likewise, from the commerce area Business Studies, Marketing, Economics, Legal Studies, and Political Studies would stem.

In Year 12 students would be able to drop all the 'core' subjects (English, Mathematics, etc) and be able to undertake super-specialist subjects from their electives undertaken for the past three years. For example, from the Business Studies subject the speciaty subjects would include Management, Human Relations, Supply-Chain Management, Retail Management, Manufacturing Management, Services Management, Global Management, Small Business Management, Management Theory, Business Ethics, etc.

free breast implants for everyone,improved educating system,mandatory working out,free weed.

More drinking fountains. There are never enough, especially in the desert.

least radical - be more like Scandinavia

radical - listen to karl marx

most radical - The Venus Project

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provable improvement - be more like Scandinavia

theoretical improvement - listen to karl marx

only for those who are willing to put enough work to fix the system entirely - The Venus Project

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I would want a world wide language and sign language that everyone was taught. It would make communicating much easier. This would require education services to become easily available everywhere in the world, though.

nickz_fpk

Because everyone has different cultures and traditions. So why should everyone have to drop thier traditions for the sake of anyone else.

I'm not saying to get rid of what is already there, but rather in addition to it. The OP said it didn't have to be realistic, anyway.

Stiffer punishment for our laws. I don't mean makes all types of new laws. If people spent more time in jail and weren't let off easy.....EVER, then crime would drop a lot. There should be a lot more "Death penatly" crimes. If stealing a candy bar landed you in jail for 6 months no questions asked, no light sentences, then people would think twice about doing crimes that are worse. The death penalty should be enforced more and used for more crimes. Why should we have to pay taxes to keep these morons alive? If you murder, rape, ect., then you get the death penalty, screw throwing you in jail for life. Just kill you and get it over with to save the space in prison for the lesser crimes that don't get you death. There should be no such thing as a "life sentence". if you committed a crime that earns you that, then you just get killed. And screw giving a date for when you die. Once sentences, take them out back and pop a hole in em and be done with it. I bet if our sentences were that stiff, you wouldn't have any where near the crime rate we have now.

If everybody would just leave each other the hell alone and allow them freedom the pursue a form of life that works for them.

If everybody would just leave each other the hell alone and allow them freedom the pursue a form of life that works for them.

-TheSecondSign-

Take MTV off the air. That would help quite a bit, methinks....

We'd have to start emulating those countries that have the fewest social problems like gangs and crime AKA the East Asian countries.

That would mean we'd have to become hyper-conformist, culturally homogenous workaholics with a very powerful and scary government to keep things in line. Western values happen to be almost entirely the opposite of that, so it will never happen here.

Society isnever gonna improve, NEVER. Its just natural that the strong will pick on the weak. I mean its sad but its true. Trying to control people is like squezing sand, the more you clench the more that falls out.

pl4yer_f0und

I dont want to control people, I want to give them more culture and stuff like that, but not have it forced. I want the government to be less influenced by the "strong" (the rich, in other words) and more influenced by the average person.

I would definately like to get rid of a lot of trash television, though, but that'd not be cool with a lot of people.

Lobbying would be gone, and politicians would be forced to work 40 hours week instead of the 15-hour weeks they do now. If they cant do 60 hours of work inside the congress or senate, well, they get to do community service. Being a politician should be like being a servant to the people, not for one's own gain. I'd make the work of a politician just miserable enough that people with faith in politics and a desire to better their country would still work in it, but those desiring personal power would believe it is not worth it.

Oh and I'd abolish the drinking age, make pot legal to grow for personal use (no farming of pot, though).

Socialized health care system, free abortions to those in need, tax the wealthiest people in the country, legalize, moderate, and profit from the sale of weed, ban dial-up internet and mandate free access to broadband, fix our broken and aging infrastructure problems, bring back limits on political dollar expenditures and influence from outside "donations," put money back into our broken school system and make specialty colleges free.

Every single thing I just said is in part or a whole of other country's systems and it works. This country, the US, could learn a thing or two from other countries systems and how to fix our issues.

TC, your idea is a little... extreme.

Socialized health care system, free abortions to those in need, tax the wealthiest people in the country, legalize, moderate, and profit from the sale of weed, ban dial-up internet and mandate free access to broadband, fix our broken and aging infrastructure problems, bring back limits on political dollar expenditures and influence from outside "donations," put money back into our broken school system and make specialty colleges free.

Every single thing I just said is in part or a whole of other country's systems and it works. This country, the US, could learn a thing or two from other countries systems and how to fix our issues.

starfox15

And Europe is making major cuts in order to keep their socialized...everything. No one wants that in the US only to have it taken away when we can't pay for it.

Weaken government so we have stronger individuals.

Laws should protect individuals from each other. Get rid of laws that are meant to protect individuals from themselves.

Trim down the welfare state, help only the helpless, not the clueless.

I would make it mandatory to beat Cry Babies, tattle tales, punks, trolls & weasels until they learn their **** isn't acceptable. A form a rehabilitation. I would also change the law so it would be okay to hit someone if they are being a punk or atyrant. That would stop trolling and tyrannyin it's tracks. No longer would a tyrannical troll accuse someone else of being a troll and get away with.

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Socialized health care system, free abortions to those in need, tax the wealthiest people in the country, legalize, moderate, and profit from the sale of weed, ban dial-up internet and mandate free access to broadband, fix our broken and aging infrastructure problems, bring back limits on political dollar expenditures and influence from outside "donations," put money back into our broken school system and make specialty colleges free.

Every single thing I just said is in part or a whole of other country's systems and it works. This country, the US, could learn a thing or two from other countries systems and how to fix our issues.

airshocker

And Europe is making major cuts in order to keep their socialized...everything. No one wants that in the US only to have it taken away when we can't pay for it.

Correction: Nobody wants to increase taxes to fix these problems. So we just sugarcoat the problem and pretend it isn't there while our infrastructures and cities deteriorate around us. And don't generalize Europe like it's one country. Some parts of it may be doing that, but it's not a part of every country's agenda.

1. Freedom of religon, but no buildings only dedicated for religous purposes. Churches IMO are a waste of resources and could be converted into more useful things.

2. Sexual intercourse would be legal from ages 13 up, and less of a taboo thing. Mostly because sex=happiness (in most cases) and overall would just create a happier society.

3. An Alien attack. Probably because it would unite humans as one race and destroy most or all of racisim,

4. A visit from friendly extra-terrestrials. Mostly because of the massive knowledge exchange and it would probably be the most important moment in the history of mankind.