54. Social Sustainability Interpretations of Social Issues, -2

What has been missing from all societies since the beginning of clans and societies is a universal and timelessly consistent means of evaluating social behavior of individuals, families, communities, societies, governments, and all social, political and economic/financial organizations.  “How we have always done it” and “common law” and even statutory law are no longer sufficient to define behaviors in highly complex populations in a world of many nations and the concerns of billions of people.  Until now, there has been no existent, uniform standard of defining, estimating, validating or fair way of judging one person’s behavior in one nation in the same way in another nation.  The decision-making process produced from the three values of social sustainability actually does provide that degree of timeless consistency.

When laws, social policies and social expectations are based on the universal standards of the three sustaining values of our species, which have proven consistent to sustain our species’ existence over tens of thousands of years, then legal interpretations will be uniform from one court to another, from one state to another and one nation to another.  These values will form the basis for interpreting contemporary social issues in forthcoming Posts. 

Although these values have sustained our species for millennia, do not expect political interests, whether in communist, totalitarian, dictatorships or democratic nations who have their own social, political and economic/financial agendas to use these values for their interpretations of social issues.

Nations that chose to move toward social stability and sustainability will experience difficulties during the transition era from traditional decision-making that led to familiar and comfortable outcomes to decision-making that leads to socially sustainable outcomes.  That era will be difficult but not permanent. 

Tomorrow we will begin examining social references outside of the three sustaining values that do not support a socially sustainable society.  Our first re-interpretation deals with same-sex marriages.  We might as well bite the bullet as we begin to heal the social wounds that our painful attitudes, opinions, biases, prejudices and bigotries have caused for so many millennia.  They are not relevant to the sustainability of our species, and are detrimental to the stability and social sustainability of every society.