Jack McLaren, where's your haversack?

[sovay]

I said something to derspatchel earlier tonight and he said it made a good philosophy:

In an imperfect world, your first priority is to stay safe. You can't change anything if you're dead.

Like all philosophies, of course, it is immediately susceptible to amendment, exceptions, and debate. I stand by the core.

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[gaudior]

Seems good to me.

[sovay]

Seems good to me.

Yay.

[thistleingrey]

Yes. Even the people with whom one may disagree ought to stay safe. (There is "someone has said shitty threatening things" levels of disagreement and "evidence shows that someone has been a mass murderer" levels of disagreement; for the latter I pay taxes to my government and cross my fingers that the appropriate jurisdiction will get them. For the former, I still want them to be able to stay safe and take care of themselves--without antagonism, positive change rarely occurs, either.)

[sovay]

Even the people with whom one may disagree ought to stay safe.

Yes! Disagreement does not equal open season.

[genarti]

It's a good philosophy, I think.

[sovay]

It's a good philosophy, I think.

Yay.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

It's one of the first principles of first aid & rescue work.

[sovay]

It's one of the first principles of first aid & rescue work.

That makes a lot of sense.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A person on my LJ said, if you save your own life, in some ways you save the world. That seems right.

[sovay]

A person on my LJ said, if you save your own life, in some ways you save the world. That seems right.

I have always heard that philosophy applied to other people's lives, but of course then your own must have similar value when someone else saves it; why should it be any different when the person who does the saving is yourself?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Precisely.