As a good three quarters of my debating ability is based in personal empathy, nothing I put here, rant or debate will be remotely the same as spoken in person. I'll still leave thoughts on others' rants, though.
Hunter's remarks: (which are incomplete for now because life, slep, and the fact they are mutually exclusive for me) {incomplete marked [] }
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Pretty sure I wrote something up a while back on how America could benefit from a decade of Monarchy. Just got to dig through the floppies... [nope]
My current view on diversified representation is that either all sides are represented individually (currently Democrat/Republican), or none at all. Sadly, no man is pure enough to hold back all bias in a position of that much power, and be believe by those ruled. Beign a bit more frank, people don't tend to care as much about something if it doesn't affect them; if all of Alaska's volcanoes erupted, but it was never broadcast on the news, a person in Florida likely wouldn't care about it at all for a while; but what you don't know can hurt you. Eventually, the aftereffects of the eruptions would affect them, but by then it'd be a bit late to change anything. Back to the proposed problem, it isn't one of opposition, but rather care; there could be hundreds of political bodies, but if they didn't care enough to bicker mindlessly... well, I'd find it better than now, where any side cares mostly to just be on top. War, politics, turf, competition, service... anything you can fit under this topic is a matter of how much each side cares about the matter, and how they tie into it.
At the same time, to lack care is to become amoral, as morals are, in part, what allow us to care. I don't care for extrema, though; we are close to the "definitely cares too much" side of the spectrum, but "cannot care" is not the solution itself. The answer is one word that I wish everyone knew the full meaning of, down to the emotional level: discretion, or, as I interpret it in this environment, caring to care. []
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Oddly, though I see it in people, everybody I know in my area tends to break that; caring/open men, stern/self-prominent(?) women, and gregarious all in all. I'll openly say I have a tad of envy toward blacks (as my black friends are all too aware) on a functional level; let's just say sunscreen doesn't work on me and leave it at that. My brother takes what you say to a whole new level, since he does what I call "internet-style stereotyping." In short, everyone agrees with your mindset, so you can proceed, since everyone supports you (except they don't, because... internet? 'allo?) []