Consider the importance of the 6 different "broken-symmetry" layers of organization in earth's multi-celled life, namely layers that look in (←|) and out (|→) from the boundaries of metazoan-skin (←1|2→), gene-pool (←3|4→) and idea-pool (←5|6→). These suggest that we might look at fitness (←1), pair bonds (2→), family (←3), community (4→), culture (←5) & profession (6→) as separate but key elements of a healthy human world.
If so the real challenges that we collectively face, of balanced approaches considering all 6 levels, are much more ambitious than the challenge associated with any one of the issues normally covered in the news. Hence to examine the balance of any given argument, we might want to look at its impact on all of these layers.
For instance, does a law which prevents a raped 10 year old from getting an abortion serve all 6 layers well, or does it serve a mainly cultural mandate (←5) but help replicate the gene-pool (←3) of rapists (2→) while boosting the population of uncared for children (4→), at the same time promoting governmental infringement of an innocent 10 year old's personal space (←1)? If this law is not well balanced, then it may help lead toward the decline (rather than the bloom) of layered complexity, especially if our planet is having trouble providing all 6-layers of opportunity to the folks already here (6→).
What other "news issues" might be put into an integrative context like this?
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