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I have been debating minimalism myself recently-- to the point of sleeping in a tent in the woods at random .
When I realize that across the earth, people similar to me are building their homes out of scrapped wood and metal while I sit in a climate controlled house with electricity and safe water.

Yet I still complain and find fault  with everything like a cynical troll bumbling about in a forest, muttering about the pesky humans.

@Haji 2003
The game of Simon Says in the realm of international politics and hegemony is probably rooted in Pragmatic Theory - this is a genre of ethics - although there are many other genres and theories.... and it is debatable whether Pragmatic Theory is useful of not.. copying and pasting below:
Pragmatic Theory
Pragmatic ethics
     Pragmatic ethics, as a knowledge based theory, is a theory of normative philosophical ethics.
     Ethical pragmatists, such as John Dewey, believe that society progresses morally in much the way it progresses its scientific knowledge.
Ethical pragmatists 
  They expect that the norms, principles or moral criteria available to humans at any given time are unlikely to be complete or directly applicable,
o   And likely to be supplanted as society progresses.
    Pragmatic ethics focuses on society, rather than on lone individuals, as the entity which achieves morality
Although Socrates may have contributed to the development of virtue ethics, he also identified as an ethical pragmatist when he defended himself as a social gadfly.
He claimed that society (not just individuals) advances morally, that dissent from people like himself stirs such reform, and that such dissent therefore should be protected as morally valuable.

 

@Haji 2003
The game of Simon Says in the realm of international politics and hegemony is probably rooted in Pragmatic Theory - this is a genre of ethics - although there are many other genres and theories.... and it is debatable whether Pragmatic Theory is useful of not.. copying and pasting below:
Pragmatic Theory
Pragmatic ethics
     Pragmatic ethics, as a knowledge based theory, is a theory of normative philosophical ethics.
     Ethical pragmatists, such as John Dewey, believe that society progresses morally in much the way it progresses its scientific knowledge.
Ethical pragmatists 
  They expect that the norms, principles or moral criteria available to humans at any given time are unlikely to be complete or directly applicable,
o   And likely to be supplanted as society progresses.
    Pragmatic ethics focuses on society, rather than on lone individuals, as the entity which achieves morality
Although Socrates may have contributed to the development of virtue ethics, he also identified as an ethical pragmatist when he defended himself as a social gadfly.
He claimed that society (not just individuals) advances morally, that dissent from people like himself stirs such reform, and that such dissent therefore should be protected as morally valuable.

 

This Law 
Or That Law
No Laws 
or Bad Laws
Makes one 
an Outlaw
Acting on Whims
 
 
 

This Law 
Or That Law
No Laws 
or Bad Laws
Makes one 
an Outlaw
Acting on Whims
 
 
 

This Law 
Or That Law
No Laws 
or Bad Laws
Makes one 
an Outlaw
Acting on Whims
 
 
 

Everyone should read this blog. 

Non-fiction professional writer. The text in the main post is Gen AI. My contribution was the prompt in the first comment afterwards.

Thats a good point that foreign companies have a role in shaping the attitudes and sense of entitlement in the settlers. Are you a writer by profession or as a hobbyist? 

This was the prompt I used:
I want you to write a short story about how a country adopts measures such as reducing the use of plastic bags for reasons of sustainability and the values that are reinforced thereby lead to perceptions of cultural superiority over those nations that do not practice these methods. The view grows that war is an acceptable price to pay to encourage more widespread adoption of sustainability values and practices amongst those who have not evolved to this elevated reasoning.

The following extract from an article the FT of 1st Feb is interesting. It's written by John Sawers, a former head of MI6. 
 
 
I think this assessment backs up what I had in mind. Sewers refers to the hardware, but in his example also includes the software (IRGC training). I think the latter is qualitatively different to hardware. As we saw with the Americans in Afghanistan, you can give people the most advanced hardware, but without the right kind of software, it's useless.
That software includes technical training, which Sawers refers to. But again, Iraq and Afghanistan both received military advisers in abundance.
I think software also includes things like what you are fighting for. I'd guess American promises of having freedom to open liquor shops is not as much of a draw for fighters as defending your family's traditions.

Salam condolences for your missing of  them which I pray that they will enter to paradise & have an everlasting  peaceful & happy life life there inshAllah.