1. Risk Taking
1.1. Possibility of Failure
1.1.1. Opportunities for learning, growth, and change
1.1.2. Failure isn't an ending
1.2. Possibility of Success
1.2.1. Opportunities for joy and growth
1.3. Likelihood of risk taking may increase with practice
2. Full Range of Human Experience
2.1. Suffering
2.1.1. can be a catalyst for change and growth
2.1.2. can't be avoided
2.1.3. Is always temporary
2.1.4. Is lessened through good psychological and social tools
2.2. Thriving/ Well-being
2.2.1. Increased Understanding of self and others
2.2.2. Necessary for human well-being, all suffering would be too much for human's to endure and grow, routinly
2.3. Gratitude
2.3.1. Increased by exposure to other "worlds"
2.3.2. Increased through conscious effort
3. Full range of experience is contingent on risk taking
4. Discomfort can be or cause Growth "Growing Pains" change requires adjustments to our paradigm
5. Social Connection is contingent on empathy
6. Social connection requires vulnerability, which is a form of risk taking
7. Balance of positive and negative
8. Social Connection
8.1. Social responsibility/ ethical responsibility
8.1.1. biological imperative for social bonding and living
8.2. Growth and understanding
8.2.1. Increased empathy for self and others through exposure to others, scientifically verifiable
9. Empathy
9.1. Allows for bonding and emotional connection
10. Biology/Science
10.1. Reproducible results, can be viewed as verifiable facts
10.2. evolution of pro-social behavior and empathy
10.3. animals have a moral code
10.4. My own paper of evolution of empathy in mammals as a condition of live birth
11. Social Contract Theory
11.1. Kant's second Imperative
11.2. Aristotle balance of the means
12. Human Rights
12.1. survival
12.2. well-being
12.2.1. why?
13. Human Needs
13.1. well-being
13.1.1. growth fosters change
13.1.1.1. healthy response to change fosters growth and increased understanding
13.1.2. lack of growth causes stagnation
13.1.2.1. decrease in well-being
13.1.3. Feeling Fulfilled
13.1.3.1. comes from feeling of usefulness or acomplishment
13.2. Respect
13.2.1. Freedom from shame
13.2.2. Personal Autonomy
13.3. Biological Needs/ survival
13.3.1. food, water, air, shelter
13.3.1.1. Requires personal ability and responsibility
13.3.1.1.1. Physial and Mental ability
13.3.1.1.2. in cases of limited ability social connection is necessary
13.3.2. sexual reproduction and expression
13.3.2.1. allows for exploration as the other as a full imperfect person. Increases empathy and understanding
14. Ethics
14.1. Biological basis for prosocial behavior through the evolution of empathy
14.2. empathy allows for bonding, trust, and social living
14.3. Rules of behavior facilitate trust and human connections
14.4. Costs of failures of ethics
14.4.1. personal
14.4.1.1. professional success
14.4.1.2. use it or lose it, lack of practice weakens empathy and likelihood of ethical behaviours
14.4.1.3. loss or weakened social connections
14.4.2. social
14.4.2.1. lacks of trust
14.4.2.2. lack of safety
14.4.2.3. direct harm to individuals
15. Metaphysics
15.1. Truth
15.1.1. Truth as woman
15.1.2. none scientific facts and ideas