Greetings, Prismatic
Thank you for a very constructive response
I shall take your suggestions into serious consideration, and from your contribution I have learned of possible improvements to the concept I was putting forth. And, incidentally, in a book published in 1969, entitled SCIENCES OF MAN AND SOCIAL ETHICS, yours truly proposed the concept “HQ” which stood for “Humanity Quotient.” So you and I seem to think along the same lines.
Science measures everything; and ideas are to be measured by the Correspondence Theory of Truth, not merely by the Coherence Theory. The test is: Do our beliefs about ethics correspond with facts and with evidence? These days my project is to make a science out of Ethics, and I have witnessed some progress in this direction. Both Moral Psychology and Applied Formal Axiology are the experimental branches of this new science. …More about that later.
Also we have seen the advent of several versions of a Happiness Index, and a ‘Best Company to work for’ Index. Now, in four countries, there are many practitioners, coaches, and therapists who employ the H.V.P. in their work.
…Very encouraging developments.
Yes, at times impulse-control is the right way to go. Long-term studies of kindergarten kids who deferred eating immediately marshmallows offered them by Psychologists, in order to get more of them a little later, concluded that those kids were more successful in later life than those who could not control their urge to grab the available treats and scarf them down. Good parenting includes admonishing your child who, for example, gave in to an impulse to swipe something, or some money, it desired out of a lady’s purse, etc.
Have no fear, Artemus, I have no use for “health systems” either !!
And Hahaha - we are aware of the problem; we are seeking solutions. Be careful not to fall into the trap of cynicism. It accomplishes nothing.
I agree with you, and Shakespeare, that all the world’s a stage, and we are all players.