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 **What does love of all life mean exactly?** As hinted above, it does **NOT** necessarily mean maximizing specific measures such as abundance of life (which could lead to overpopulation and in turn to suffering), the sum of happiness of all life (which could lead to just dosing everyone with drugs or killing unhappy individuals), elimination of negative emotion such as hatred (which would likely prevent us from recognizing wrong directions of our society), it doesn't mean respect towards everyone etc. It doesn't even mean that we will never kill anyone on purpose, our society may support [euthanasia](euthanasia.md) without violating its principles. Love of all life mostly means that **we start behaving [selflessly](selflessness.md) and [altruistically](altruism.md) instead of pursuing self interest**, at least as much as we practically can. It means that we start seeing the life on our whole planet (and possibly in the whole universe) as our own family, not as our enemies. This doesn't mean we will like everyone, that we'll agree with everyone's opinions, that we won't criticize anyone or that we'll be [politically correct](political_correctness.md) etc., it just means that we will never try to cause suffering to others, that we'll try to not exploit others, that we'll be aware of the needs of others and try to behave towards them with empathy and love. Importantly **we will try to pursue these ideals even if we can't achieve perfection**.
 
+We will further set a few principles to which we'll stick on the way towards the goal. Firstly **we will never force anything** as forcing any idea, whatever it may be, always ends up being [evil](evil.md). To us **ends NEVER justify the means.** We want to increase happiness of life mainly through **increasing its [freedom](freedom.md)** -- and it's important to note we mean REAL freedom, i.e. increasing the number of choices anyone has [de facto](de_facto.md) available at any moment. This must never be confused with so called "pseudofreedom" which just means "law of the jungle".
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 ## Basic Description
 
 The following is a basic description of just some features of the ideal society, some of which are however only speculative. Keep in mind it is impossible to plan a whole society exactly -- even if some of the speculations here turn out to be somehow erroneous, it probably still doesn't present a fatal obstacle to implementing our society, things may simply just turn out differently or to be more or less challenging than we predict.
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 - **Do you really think you can convince even diehard neonazis to accept these ideas?** Not in their lifetime -- some people can't practically be convinced, it would take longer than they will be alive. But these people will die one day and there will come a new generation, a tabula rasa, which will have the opportunity for a better upbringing and not growing up to become diehard nazis.
 - **Without any censorship how will you prevent "hate speech" or protect people's personal data?** As mentioned above, racism and issues of so called "hate speech" will simply disappear in a non-competitive society. The issues of abuse of personal information will similarly disappear without any corporations that abuse such data and without conflict between people, in the ideal society there won't even be any need for things such as passwords and encryption.
 - **How will you prevent psychopaths from just going and killing people?** In the ideal society maximum effort will be made to prevent wrong psychological development of people which can happen due to crime, poverty, discrimination, bullying etc., so the cases of lunatics killing for no reason would be extremely rare but of course they would happen sometimes, as they do nowadays, they cannot be prevented completely (they aren't completely prevented even nowadays, a psychopath is not afraid of police). Our society would simply see such events as unfortunate disasters, just like natural disasters etc. In transition states of our society there may still exist imperfect means of solving such situations such as means for non lethal immobilization of the attacker and his isolation (but not punishment, i.e. not a prison).
+- **Can't you achieve happiness of all life simply by dosing everyone with drugs?** Yes, but this is not what we'll do for several reasons. Firstly this is short sighted: if everyone is dosed with cocaine, everyone dies and there will be no more life that could feel joy anymore, i.e. we have achieved the absolute opposite of our goal. Secondly, as mentioned, one of the key principles of LRS is to never force anything: we rather want to achieve happiness through increasing [freedom](freedom.md). This means there WILL be the freedom to take drugs, anyone can do it out of his free will and some people may choose to do so for example to deal with chronic pain, however we believe that if people (unlike today) have the option to live a happy and meaningful life even without drug abuse, most will choose to not abuse drugs.
 - **Would such society be stable? Wouldn't people revert back to "old ways" over time?** We believe the society would be highly stable, much more than current society plagued by financial crises, climate changes, wars, political fights etc. The longer a good society stays, the more stable it will probably become as its principles will become more and more embedded in the culture and there will be no destabilizing forces -- no groups revolting "against the system" should appear because no one will be oppressed and therefore unhappy about the situation. Furthermore, like mentioned above, once competitiveness becomes unnecessary, evolution will slowly start removing the competitive trait of humans as it will no longer be needed, just like it removed our fur for example; humans will become less and less aggressive like domesticated animals have, and then it will be as rare to see an aggressive human as seeing a cow behave like a predator. Evolution is normally slow, but only because environmental changes are slow; with rapid change of society (for the better) a quite rapid evolution should be seen as well (this has already been observed in nature); just like humans degenerate very quickly by society getting rapidly worse (allergy, bad immunity, worse eyesight, more cancer, depression, autism and plethora of other things we see), they should start rapidly improving with fast changes for the better.
 - **Will you allow abortions?** There is no strict YES/NO answer here, as with everything there will be no simple allowing or forbidding laws, decisions about abortions will be made in the spirit of the common goal, handled on a case-by-case basis and strong prevention of unwanted and/or risky pregnancy. There will be more people willing to adopt children, birth control means will be better and accessible to anyone for free, children will not pose any financial burden or be an "obstacle to one's career", so this issue won't be nearly as great as it is today.
 - **You say you want equality of all living beings -- does this mean you will force animals to not kill each other or that you will refuse to e.g. kill viruses?** Ideally we would like to maximize the happiness and minimize suffering of all living beings, even primitive life forms such as bacteria, and if that cannot be achieved at the time, we will try to get as close to it as we can and do the next best thing. Sometimes there are no simple answers here but the important thing is the goal we have to keep in mind. For example provided that we want to sustain human life (i.e. we don't decide to starve to death) we have to choose what to eat: nowadays we will try to be vegan so as to spare animals of suffering but we are still aware that eating plants means killing plants which are living beings too -- we don't think the life of a plant is less worthy of an existence than that of an animal, but from what we know plants don't show signs of suffering to the degree to which e.g. mammals do, so eating plants rather than animals is the least evil we can do. Once we invent widely available artificial food, we will switch to eating that and we'll stop eating plants too.