Self-Reliance and Helping Others

After reading a comment under an article about a small community in a U.S. region with a reputation for being liberal dealing with aftermath of a landslide that said something to the effect of "Self-reliant Democrats? Who'd have thought? If they were urban liberals they would be whining and waiting for the government to come help them" I realized that self-reliance has been claimed by conservatives, championed by libertarians who argue against welfare as character-destroying. So I thought, why do liberals have a reputation for being dependent upon big government to help them?

I've been familiar with self-reliance since growing up in a small, rural, but liberal town. While there are problems with strict adherence to conservative ideologies that justify disregard for the suffering of the needy, even I can recognize the tendency to label liberals dependent.

Desteni, in walking what's best for all as this applies to the current conditions in which humans suffer due to a lack of access to resources, while simultaneously promoting tools with which individuals can strengthen and improve upon internal weaknesses, provides a balance between serving others (which can be achieved through the simple mechanism of a living income guaranteed) and expressing self-reliance (which can be built and expanded through the tools of self-forgiveness and self-writing).

Investigate
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7 Year Journey to Life
Living Income Guaranteed
Living Income- The Proposal
Equal Money System

Activist Shareholders

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals made news recently when they purchased $4000 worth of shares in an apparel company for the purpose of using their position to bring attention to and stop the company from using unethical sources, specifically mentioning "cruelly trapped coyotes and down feathers from slaughtered geese."

Problem

Animals are abused in our reliance upon them for consumer goods. While the law increasingly protects animal rights, there are still companies that profit at the expense of animals and leave us little to do. Creative solutions for getting into the press such as buying shares in unethical companies may temporarily increase attention on certain issues. However, the amount of abuse that goes on is unthinkable.

Solution

Recognize constitutionally guaranteed equal life rights in the regulation and expression of businesses to ensure abuse is not tolerated in any step of the processes upon which we depend.

Reward

As if stopping animal abuse is not reward enough on its own, we won't have to read news stories about obnoxious/heroic NGOs pulling stunts to create publicity for their causes. If we as a society can come together to stop animal abuse imagine the other things we could accomplish

Further research:
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