In response to a YouTube video at: https://youtu.be/nXUbkhl_uuQ (The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond - Factually! - 215) I wrote the following comment ("7 months ago", they report, which must be the summer of 2023): I became a POVERTY ABOLITIONIST in 1980, when I was 18. I am aware that there are many different forms of 'poverty'. Some people have 'poor vision', 'poor hearing', and some have 'poor taste' in men/women. I also understand that the word 'poor' means different things in different cultures and subcultures. For these and other reasons, I declare that the kind of poverty that I fight against is ' unearned/unchosen chronic human material poverty on Earth ' ( UCHMPE for short). One of the reasons for this narrowing of the target is the fact that SOME PEOPLE CHOOSE OR EARN POVERTY. Monks and 'sisters' of certain faith groups gladly "embrace lady poverty". It is not my (or your?) place to try
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5 March 2024: Using the pen-name Anseynol, on the evening of 7 July 2004, I created a blog at the Google spot: http://laruunash.blogspot.com/ I consider myself fortunate to have lived long enough to state, on a website, some of my core beliefs and values. I was also able to upload a summary to: https://archive.org/details/Laruunash_A_New_Nontheistic_Religion As I state there, Laruunash is a new, nontheistic religion which invites human beings to recognize the need to serve what they understand to be goodness , even if it entails going against their perceived sense of their self interest. Even though I favor a modified version of consequentialism, I acknowledge that many acts in the service of good, even if they are implemented properly, can bring suffering or huge costs to the (well-intentioned and competent) actors. With that acknowledgment, I urge my contemporaries (of whatever religion) to try to make the world a safer place for those who sacrifice their interests in the service of