Abuses

Investigating possible abuses, including the abuse of power, is an important and useful activity for any advocate of civility.

How do you account for elder abuse in Australia, and elsewhere?

What do you know about abuse in relation to age, gender and money?

How do you account for poverty in Australia, and elsewhere, especially when it affects children, adolescents, young adults and older women?

What is your acquaintance with social inequality, in theory and in practice?

What is your acquaintance with extortion in Australia, and elsewhere?

What is your acquaintance with the history of Australian currency?

What do you know about how that currency has been used and abused by rich, rude persons in Australia at various times in history?

What is your acquaintance with tokenism in Australia, and elsewhere?

Why does freedom of speech only adequately apply on the floor of parliament?

Why does freedom from verbal abuse and blatant lies not apply anywhere?

One of the most important tasks involved in accomplishing other tasks involves investing in good relationships.  Such relationships are neither superficial nor abusive, of course.

What do you know about social media use (and abuse) in politics?

What do you know about intelligence gathering techniques? 

How do you address misinformation?  

How do you assess whether an approach to management is abusive or not?

An abusive person in a position of power, especially when failing to resign from that position, is certainly worthy of contempt. 

And many abusive persons have a 'do as I say and not as I do' attitude towards civility.  They demand to be treated preferentially, and even obsequiously, whilst being rude.  They do not respond appropriately to experiences of education regarding courtesy, etiquette or other aspects of interpersonal respect.

How often have you voted for perpetrators of abuses of power?

How often have you donated money to the perpetrators of abuses?

How often have you ignored matters of justice when spending money and/or investing money?

Perhaps you never conduct essential research to prevent yourself from supporting the abusers of public trust and human rights.

Unfortunately, much harm is especially done to people in the name of productivity, particularly through the use and abuse of pharmaceutical products and other drugs, irrational fears about vaccines, and unreasonable coercion.

 

Yet an industry should always be assessed in relation to its associated communities, as should productivity itself.

How do you identify the communities of relevance to your decision-making activities?

What do you know about abuses associated with trade, and how did you acquire that information, and what have you done with it? 

What do you know about abusive techniques used to acquire money? 

What do you know about economic abuse as perpetrated in families and by governments in Australia, and elsewhere? 

What do you know about the economic and political practices of aggressors who loudly proclaim family values as the pinnacle of goodness, regardless of the prevalence of family violence and psychological abuse within families, possibly including their own?

What do you know about the aggressors who proclaim Western civilisation as a pinnacle of achievement and rarely mention the greedy evil conducted in its name?

What do you know about the politics and economics of service, including unpaid and underpaid service?

What do you know about the misuse of economic theories for financial and/or political gain?

What do you know about economic theories in terms of appropriateness and inappropriateness?

How have you attempted to understand the economics of civility? 

What do you already know about the politics of civility, and how did you acquire that information?

There has been immense, long-term damage wrought by the aggression associated with election campaigns in Australia and other countries.  Yet political campaigns are often devoid of civility, all over the world, with or without elections taking place.

Politicians use promises as bribes.  They waste public money in order to gain political power and then abuse the public by claiming public money is unavailable for desperately needed public expenditure.

What do you know about mental health problems in relation to the causes and consequences of abuses?