Responsibility

What if we could we remember and honour all the dead...yes, the estimated 110 billion or so humans who have ever lived? 

Please see below selected recent responsibility-related change.

See also; Halcyon Responsibility Headlines

October 2018

• Aeon hosted a debate on whether we can be held morally responsible for our actions: one side argued that what we do and the way we are is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control, while the other countered that while there really are people, with mental disabilities, who are not able to control themselves, normal people can manage under all but the most extreme circumstances. 

Pre 2018

I have listened to and would recommend the following podcasts (2015-2018 recommendations to follow):

2014

Halcyon curates the most significant responsibility-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with responsibility-related challenges.

For me the purpose of life is to know other people…is to discover what life is. Who inhabits the world? What is it to be human? What can I give to the world which it doesn’t have…a gift for tolerating my presence in this world..…and unless I know the people, I can’t know what it does not have - Theodore Zeldin

Imagine balancing self-interest and caring for others. If this is possible, then:

(1) What is the approximate balance between the two today - in individuals, organisations and societies? How much time do we really spend thinking about and then acting on other people's needs?