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Being considerate: building a society that harbours others

Being considerate

Would it be essential to infuse a system of reminders into infrastructure? I contemplate where those with special needs are a vibrant part of society, whether prompts and highlight could be a consistent and tactful component.

A person prone to forgetfulness, walking down a pathway may need a guide towards a main hub; same for staff who may tend to forget a policy in a week, and may need daily briefings of expectations. The implication is huge, especially if a huge sector is affected. This is the goal for a march towards constant improvisation and efficiency. The human tendency could be framed as individually driven and could bother on complacency, but also with age and a weakening of the capacity for articulation, perhaps, the need for more ready stimulation and support.

Could media outlets play a role? Could better use of sound systems at train and bus stations – at public spots help? How about brief notices on decorum and civic responsibilities? How about shaping an empathetic society by showing how people work together, and cope by being more tolerant? Isn’t this what celebratory days are meant to achieve?- a somewhat of a recalibration to remind ourselves of expectations.

Prospects are intriguing- of tech working seamlessly with environment, but it has to be built on algorithms that promotes goodwill. There is no point writing codes that sniffs negativity and faulty values. We may need to explore first, by finding who specifically wrote it. A chance to explain and guide is always very refreshing. Researchers might want to explore funding for the long term with implications on reducing criminality. Again, a discussion that remains to be had, is whether with tragic penury, strategic instructional and momentary briefs has a limited role- no doubt this remains a complex revision-able area.

“Hey, its a beautiful day. Remember to pay your taxes, and stay to the left of the road.”

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Conflicting Concerns of Mobility and Health Rights in Emergencies- Where an Ethical Blueprint Fit?

Forthcoming Article

Research paper titled “CONFLICTING CONCERNS OF MOBILITY AND HEALTH RIGHTS IN EMERGENCIES- WHERE AN ETHICAL BLUEPRINT FIT?”

Abstract: In times of health emergencies, such as the outbreak of a communicable disease, there are issues in law and ethics that are raised. This include, the need to maintain the dignity of those affected, ramping up measures to ensure the protection of health rights, and whether there is a justification for restricting movement given the risk of infection but taking cognisance of the economic implication. Policymakers and health professionals will be faced with the decision of how to maintain conduct so as not to undermine these rights, but also ensure safety.

IJSRP Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2020 edition

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Enabling literacy goals through effective communication


I suggest that if a community needs to reach her goals of literacy then concerted efforts should be towards a manner of communication that trains and allows for understanding without compromising basic ethics of construction. By this  I mean especially in a written form. In a spoken form, accessibility can be eased in gradually, as opposed to creating deafening silence prior to attaining capacity for engagement. 

Let’s suppose we assume an inability to read and write, assimilating a written communication in legible but broken form, till remains a distant possibility- so what is achieved is not literacy goals but at best a further depression from any basic learning, or a learnt anomaly. This would only fulfil an often itemised plan of obliterating illiteracy. It would neither bridge a class divide of articulate communicators nor urge a generation of enthusiasts towards elitism. I hardly can find any deliberate agenda. 

However those already priviledged in this regard, might consider what is at stake is the potential for societal cohesion through understandable expressions, whether be of matter of policy or necessary activities. Less manipulation through illiteracy would have meant less unjustifiable control. The United Nations, and other individual nations, sensing the relevance has since thrown their weight behind achieving a literacy programme and appropriate understanding; not a skewed version, so proficiency is not compromised. The effectiveness of awareness campaigns and carrying out highly skilled business and training at several levels hinge on this. I’m yet to see the relevance of training towards non-proficiency though I see the aims of interpretations. But bear in mind if there is a skill to read it can be geared towards proficiency not irrelevant duplicity. I think there is a nexus between understanding your priviledges or rights, and protection, the first would more easily aid achieving the later. I urge goals towards literacy, in all of its appropriate forms.

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