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2.2.1 Defining starting position

Elze07-07-14

	Battle or humanity or both at the same time
1	Do you want to be able to go ahead and compete and fight with everyone who prevents you from doing what you want, even if it damages everything and everyone?	Do you want a peaceful world where everyone treats each other without violence?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
2	Do you think hunting, competing, and struggling to get and keep collections is the only form of meaningful active activity?	Do you see all sorts of possibilities to be intellectually and skillfully creative entrepreneurial without competition and struggle?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
3	Do you think a peaceful world is a passive and boring world where everything is fixed?	In a peaceful world do you have a playful dynamic in mind, based on a each other non-damaging starting point?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
4	Do you think that it is only through violence that you can set boundaries, resolve conflicts and cooperate?	Do you think that there are non-violent opportunities to achieve pais and peace and to work together?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
5	Do yu want uniformity?	Do you want exclusivity?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
6	Do you want to compete with everything that is unpleasant?	Do you investigate why you find something unpleasant and do you look at how you can justly turn it into something pleasant?	Or do you want both at the same time and combine some as it suits you?
7a	To what extent you have chosen your starting-points yourself?
7b	To what extent do you adhere to your principles? [What do you have to pay for it?]
7c	To what extent are you willing to adjust or change your starting points?

By regularly reflecting on your starting position and its consequences in the short and long term, you can adjust your basic principle as desired and adjust other choices accordingly.

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