Harmony, agreement, consensus, acceptance, consent, endorsement,
Acquiescence, yield, lose,
Disorder, conflict, dissent, tension, hostility, violence

Introduction

This page includes ideas related to living in harmony (balance, peace, raport, serenity, agreement, cohesion, reciprocity). How people reach agreement, consensus, acceptance, consent and how they agree (endorse, acquiesce, yield, give in, undermine, create conflict, persuade, or use violence) to make another person accept (agree, yield, change) their beliefs, goals, actions ... willingly or unwillingly. Information to consider wholistically and skills specifically related to strategies and used to create harmony or disorder (conflict, dissent, tension, hostility, violence). It also includes a list of big questions that might create or undermine harmony.

Strategies and skills to create harmony

Strategies and skills to arrive at mutually agreed on goals, facts, decisions, actions, beliefs, philsophies, policies, and procedures.

• Ethics, morality, religion,
• Conflict - resolution, problem solving, and mediation
• Persuade
• Propaganda (spread of false ideas, misinformation, rumors, fake news, ...)
• Use of anecdotal evidence
• Decision making
  • Worksheet
  • Scenarios
• Cooperation as a social skills
• Communication
• Debate
• Violence

Big questions

Philosophy

1. What makes something true or false?
2. What makes information reliable or unreliable?
3. What are the constitutional limits on religion? How might people want them changed?
4. When should you block someone on ____ ? Is a friend different than someone else?
5. Why is there poverty and hunger in the world?
6. Should I be a vegan?
7. How do people agree and disagree on the safety of GMO's?
8. Is genetic testing good? Should there be limits on it?
9. Is gene therapy good? What limits, if any should be put on it?
10. What are the benefits and limitations on having age limits for participation in sports?
11. What is civilization? Descibe how you would create a civilized society.
12. What is a hero?
13. Select a technological innovation and evaluate its effects on: understanding (learning, knowledge, schooling, ...) environment (land, water, air, living, ...) economy, politics, health (mental, physical, social, emotional) religion, other.

Research

• Study found, "Falsehood reached more people at every depth of a cascade than the truth, meaning that many more people retweeted falsehood than theydid the truth." p 1148 Reasoned that false news is more novel and that novel information is more likely to be retweeted. The spread of true and false news online by Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral. Science. March 9, 2018. Vol 359 Issue 6380
• Ethics Lab Georgetown University - tools
  • Empathy mapping put participants in other people's shoes, to understand a situation from that person's point of view.
  • Mapping the moral landscape to visualize relationships and identify possible ways to collaborate for change.
  • Picturing success through the existing moral landscape

Dr. Robert Sweetland's notes
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