The 100 Season 7: Ending the Cycle of Violence (early access)
The moral case for finding a way to end the cycle of violence.
Author’s Note: Since I’ve gotten so many new subscribers recently, I want to remind people that this will be available to free subscribers eventually, but it’s going to be a few months. This is the last in a 7 part series on The 100 and how to build a good society. It will be available in August or you can sign up to be a paid subscriber and get access to all 7 today. Next is going to be a one off piece about trauma before diving into a new series.
What should society aim to achieve?
Should there be a goal upon which we as a group should strive for? If we don't have one, how do we know whether or not we're making progress? Having a goal is central to all the other ideas we've explored at very different levels. Without it, people would just wander around aimlessly and that doesn't engender their willingness to follow it all. Some of the consequences of which are what we looked at previously, namely conflict and death and destruction. You also end up potentially leading to the rise of all kinds of different beliefs and concepts which can kill huge numbers of people.
So now we end up with... what is the point of all the things we've talked about previously? Over the course of the examination of The 100 we've done, we've looked at what rules do in society and how to resolve conflicts between different sets of rules. Then we looked at the rise of a strict ideology in which rules are enforced and how it's important to centre the individual above all things. More recently, we looked at how to properly enforce the rules especially when it comes to those who violate the rules, as well as the importance of belief in how the rules work. But what we haven't looked at is what is the point of all these rules? Where does it lead?
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