Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Carpool Coordinator

I think a good idea for a website would a carpooling website that would maximize carpool efficiency. Each person would enter in their home location where and when they need to go and when and where they would be willing to drive. If a large enough community were to use this service I think that it could become enormously efficient. Benefits included, decrease in traffic, less necessary road construction due to expansion and wear in the roads, increased community atmosphere, saves time for people not driving as they could engage in other activities.

Pay Scale Crimes

I think that fines and criminal penalties should be scaled up and down for income and life expectancy.

Beautiful People

I think that all people are too complex not to be inherently beautiful.

Extremes vs. Moderation

Does society prefer individuals who live lives of extreme highs and lows or ones of moderation, assuming that they average out the same. Which is better from the perspective of the individual.

Zero

I have a theory that if you add up all the good things and all the bad things in the universe it adds up to zero. I apply this to many things, but mainly for luck and emotion. The amount of good luck and bad luck that an individual has over their lifetime should add up to zero in the end, as probability would suggest. Therefore, you shouldn't be disappointed when you experience something that is unlucky, because it just means that you will experience an equal amount of good luck in the future. For emotion the amount of happiness (aka positive emotions) a person has is equal to the amount of pain (aka negative emotion) they experience in their lifetime. This happens because of how we adjust to our surroundings. If we become used to something good happening then its happiness strength is less. This also makes it so that if something bad happens instead, the strength of that negative feeling is stronger to counterbalance.

If emotion does add up to zero then it would help to prove an additional theory of mine. I believe that people who use drugs, injecting happiness artificially, will experience an additional amount of negative emotion as the scales of emotion are forced to counterbalance leaving with a net total of the same amount of total pleasure and pain. So if you chose to use drugs you are just deciding to have larger swings of emotion rather than a more constant an moderate level. As a person who usually doesn't have a very large swing of emotion it is one of my reasons to use as I am often jealous of people who experience larger ranges of emotion as I feel it is a better way to live life.