The best quality a human can have?

[Iconoclasm]

Wisdom.

If we were all wise we would have no problems.

/thread. All other traits mentioned are all measured against the rubric of this.

Moving on...

 

[Paksenarrion]

The best quality? In what situation? I'll go with survival instincts.

You cannot be kind or loving or humble or ambitious if you are dead.

Well, the discussion did spur that way. One point brought up was if everyone was selfish then only the strongest could survive, and strong units in a species helps it stay alive and evolve. The counterpoint was being selfless helps provide safety from predators and helps resources gathering and management. I think the original question was for right now though.

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

 

[crudus]

Wisdom.

If we were all wise we would have no problems.

/thread. All other traits mentioned are all measured against the rubric of this.

Moving on...

You don't just get wisdom. You seek it. You need curiosity to get it. However, you need to seek it relentlessly to get the good stuff so determination and ambition are important to obtain wisdom as well.

 

[crudus]

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

Why do we need to privatize the space program?

 

[StBishop]

Humility.

Think about. How much better would the world be if everyone just admitted their short comings.

Japanese.

U C WUT I DID THAR.

OT: Empathy. That could, and would, actually lead to world peace.

I'll second empathy.

I think that the inability to understand how others are feeling/will feel greatly inhibits my decision making abilities.

It's hard to be a good person when you can't fully grasp the outcome of your actions.

 

[katsumoto03]

Kindness. What more can I say? A bit more kindness in the world wouldn't hurt.

Schwa-bam! This. Thisthisthisthisthisthisthisthis! If you're kind, people will like you! Not overly so, but just being a nice person.

 

[Nouw]

Respect.

With no respect, there is no society.

 

[Iconoclasm]

Wisdom.

If we were all wise we would have no problems.

/thread. All other traits mentioned are all measured against the rubric of this.

Moving on...

You don't just get wisdom. You seek it. You need curiosity to get it. However, you need to seek it relentlessly to get the good stuff so determination and ambition are important to obtain wisdom as well.

But that's placing the journey there before the institution. The same can be said about ANYTHING EVER, EVER.

Bottom line is, if we're simply stating traits we find to be "the best" in our species- and that's exactly what we're doing- it is wisdom that judges the best kind of each thing previously mentioned, thereby placing it prior to all other things. What is an appropriate empathetic response? What is funny and why? What is beauty? Is this a good or bad action? What is love (baby don't hurt me)? What is the will and how can I grasp it?

Philosophical questions one and all.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Humor. If you take everything too seriously, you can't be happy.

agreed. without humor i might go insane, i dealt with enough humorless people in high school that nearly drove me into being an anti-social twat because of it.

 

[Paksenarrion]

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

Why do we need to privatize the space program?

So that we can eventually colonize other planets, and increase our chances of survival in case the Earth becomes uninhabitable.

Then we can afford to be as nice and as humble and as ambitious as we possibly can.

"263 roweem", CAPTCHA? WTF.

 

[Iconoclasm]

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

Why do we need to privatize the space program?

So that we can eventually colonize other planets, and increase our chances of survival in case the Earth becomes uninhabitable.

Then we can afford to be as nice and as humble and as ambitious as we possibly can.

"263 roweem", CAPTCHA? WTF.

Because in every work of fiction where there is a Space-faring Corporation, everything turns out A-OK!

Weyland-Yutani, Lunar Industries, Union Aerospace Corporation... to name a few.

 

[crudus]

But that's placing the journey there before the institution. The same can be said about ANYTHING EVER, EVER.

Bottom line is, if we're simply stating traits we find to be "the best" in our species- and that's exactly what we're doing- it is wisdom that judges the best kind of each thing previously mentioned, thereby placing it prior to all other things. What is an appropriate empathetic response? What is funny and why? What is beauty? Is this a good or bad action? What is love (baby don't hurt me)? What is the will and how can I grasp it?

Philosophical questions one and all.

Ok, lets place the journey after the institution then. Lets say you are very wise. What then? Without ambition/drive you don't do anything with it. Without humility nobody will want to listen to you even if you wanted to use it.

So that we can eventually colonize other planets, and increase our chances of survival in case the Earth becomes uninhabitable.

Then we can afford to be as nice and as humble and as ambitious as we possibly can.

"263 roweem", CAPTCHA? WTF.

That would start on Earth. We need to get it so we can build stable, enclosed colonies on Earth before we can think about doing it elsewhere. Then we need to figure out how to build those in space(robots). Most of the money is probably going to have to go to the former before the latter

 

[Paksenarrion]

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

Why do we need to privatize the space program?

So that we can eventually colonize other planets, and increase our chances of survival in case the Earth becomes uninhabitable.

Then we can afford to be as nice and as humble and as ambitious as we possibly can.

"263 roweem", CAPTCHA? WTF.

Because in every work of fiction where there is a Space-faring Corporation, everything turns out A-OK!

Weyland-Yutani, Lunar Industries, Union Aerospace Corporation... to name a few.

Don't forget the Concordance Transaction Corporation, the parent company of the USG Ishimura!

Truly, the best qualities of man magnified a hundred fold.

 

[pulse2]

Love. We don't have wnough of it, wisedom & intelligence for example won't prevent us killing each other. We just use more creative ways to do it.

 

[zehydra]

humility. A person who can understand that he isn't the most important thing in the world is a person who is willing to listen.

 

[kingcom]

Luck.

 

[Denamic]

Sentience.
It's pretty mandatory.

 

[Iconoclasm]

But that's placing the journey there before the institution. The same can be said about ANYTHING EVER, EVER.

Bottom line is, if we're simply stating traits we find to be "the best" in our species- and that's exactly what we're doing- it is wisdom that judges the best kind of each thing previously mentioned, thereby placing it prior to all other things. What is an appropriate empathetic response? What is funny and why? What is beauty? Is this a good or bad action? What is love (baby don't hurt me)? What is the will and how can I grasp it?

Philosophical questions one and all.

Ok, lets place the journey after the institution then. Lets say you are very wise. What then? Without ambition/drive you don't do anything with it. Without humility nobody will want to listen to you even if you wanted to use it.

Wisdom is less about doing something or having people believe something (that's politics) than it is about truth. Sure, you'll want to do something with it, but just because you need the drive, will, etc (eyes bleed from it all - insanity is imminent), doesn't mean that those things are superior. If it is the case that those things are superior, you'd need a metric by which to judge humor, will, drive (bleeding eyes - don't sleep) etc... this metric is wisdom. What wisdom means is a completely different matter - no one has asked that question yet (nor should they, because it's a relevant but separate topic).

 

[escapistraptor]

I was going to say perspective, but that's just what I like the most. How about flexibility, since it works in the context of not just emotional/mental/spiritual growth and discovery, but also in the practical sense that allowed us to adapt the way we did in the first place

 

[Scolar Visari]

The best quality? In what situation? I'll go with survival instincts.

You cannot be kind or loving or humble or ambitious if you are dead.

Well, the discussion did spur that way. One point brought up was if everyone was selfish then only the strongest could survive, and strong units in a species helps it stay alive and evolve. The counterpoint was being selfless helps provide safety from predators and helps resources gathering and management. I think the original question was for right now though.

For right now? Then I'd say, the best quality to have is to be rich; a multi-trillionaire.

How else can we privatize the space program?

Video related maybe?
We certainly didn't get to where we are on a rainbow of lollipops and caring did we?