Bridges Between Us

Principles that uphold and advance social progress are those that good men and women agree upon and include integrity | fairness | justice | truth | compassion and care | egalitarianism | basic human rights | social responsibility | individual freedom | the pursuit of happiness | ensuring the basic needs of and dignified living standards for all | ensuring opportunity  for every person to achieve prosperity through reasonable effort | advancing and expanding innovation and productivity | freedom of religion | freedom to not believe in religion | freedom of press | establishment and maintenance of social institutions that can capably counter the government’s, businesses’, religious groups’, and anyone else’s attempts to hinder the principles societal progress | secularism | science | reason | decreasing ignorance and the lack of knowledge | maintaining an environment where everyone can freely and safely engage in constructive debate and discussion | and the reduction of social and economic disparities. Not a single one of these principles should be advanced in any way that impedes another one of the principles. That to some may seem like a challenge, but it is not a challenge that is realistically unsolvable.  

Thus, in what we do as individuals, as groups, as part of organizations and institutions, and as part of government, we should always ask, does our actions and activities hinder any of these principles. If they do, then that needs to be corrected, elsewise stopped.