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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".
**Is it possible to achieve ideal society?** We believe so -- an outline of our reasoning is this:
1. **If all people behave in ideal ways, we can achieve ideal society where everyone is happy, therefore if it's possible, everyone should accept this goal.** It is evident that if people behaved [selflessly](selflessness.md), we could have all the advantages of current society without any disadvantages and inefficiencies, there would be no [money](money.md), violence, crime, prisons, banks, loans, oppression, wars, poverty, consumerism, bureaucracy, people would voluntarily do what's needed and we would live as equals. Those who reject this goal usually do so not because they think it's technically impossible, but because they believe people at large cannot ever behave like this. But if it indeed was possible, then no matter if one wants well being for everyone or just himself and his family, there is no reason to reject this kind of society because everyone would benefit from it.
2. **It is possible for people to behave in near-ideal ways.** There are individuals and even whole communities who manage to get close to the ideal behavior, do selfless things, sacrifice themselves for others, it's just that they are currently in great minority.
3. **[Culture](culture.md) is what decides how people behave.** Values, goals and ways of behavior are formed by culture: education, art, role models, family and friends and general environment one grows up in. This is also very evident: in Christian communities people grow up to adopt Christian values, in capitalist ones people adopt capitalist values etc. A shining example is for example a culture of highly militant states where large masses of soldiers are willing to sacrifice own life for higher values they've been taught. To change how people behave and what they aim for means to establish appropriate culture.
4. **It is possible to change culture, therefore we can make most people behave in near ideal ways.** We see we have the power to change culture, to [normalize](normalization.md) concepts that were previously rejected and abandon harmful traditions -- no matter one's political alignment, any politics is based on this assumption. Why would anyone try to make a change in society if he believed it wasn't possible? And by this we arrive at the conclusion that our initial proposal of making people behave in near-ideal ways and establishing a near-ideal society should be possible through the change of culture, and by the mentioned fact that everyone should accept the goal if it's possible, it should naturally happen just by making all people realize what we have just reasoned out, i.e. mere [education](education.md) could have sufficient power.
## 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.