Responsiveness - Part One

How do you know when politicians, their staff and public servants disregard the basic requirements of civility, and how do you respond to such rudeness?

What do you know about the history of such matters?

How have you attempted to improve standards this year, and how have people responded to your efforts? 

You may be aware that a physiological stimulus is the precursor to a response, whether the response itself is primarily physiological or otherwise.

What do you know about civility in terms of physiology?

If you have ever been expected to follow an inadequate or inappropriate code of conduct in order to be accepted within an organisation or group, how did you respond?

If no-one else, or at least not the people in the higher ranks of the associated hierarchy, appropriately follows and upholds a code of conduct you value, how do you respond?

What have been your experiences of complaining and campaigning this year? 

How have you used your emotional intelligence and moral intelligence to encourage improved civility this year?

How do you usually respond towards people you regard as incompatible with yourself and/or your tastes, your values, your priorities and/or your beliefs?

How have you attempted to improve compatibility between people this year?

How have you responded to the earliest articles here?

 

• Australia
• Landslide
• Constitution
• Standards
• Candidates
• Structure
• Power

 

Perhaps you have done so with empathy. 

How do you usually think about civility in relation to responsiveness?

Perhaps you only respond with civility and compassion if you feel compatible with the people involved.

Are you aware that compatibility as the same etymology as compassion?

Have you been planning compassionately for the year ahead? 

Whether you are or not, how do you prefer to respond to other people's stated plans, apparent plans, implied plans, impulsiveness and possibly hidden intentions, and why?

Comparatively evil people, and emotionally insecure ones, attempt to impress the people they admire.  They prefer to denigrate everyone else.

How, then, should good people respond?

How do your ethics inform your responses to various situations, particularly difficult ones?

How do you identify and acknowledge difficult situations? 

What do you believe to be the rights of everyone, even in difficult situations, and how do you attempt to uphold those rights?

If you believe you have a right to be treated with civility, how do you respond when people do not treat you that way?