Effects of Online Games on Teenagers

|ESSAYS                                                                                                    |
|on                                                                                                        |
|The Society of HumanKind                                                                                 |
|  THE FAMILY                                                                                             |
|SUMMARY                                                                                                   |
|The founding ideas of the Society throw new light and perspective on the institution of the family. It is|
|concluded that a variety of forms of family life should be accepted and supported by the Society provided|
|they do not conflict with, or detract from, pursuit of its Aim.                                           |
|There is no necessary or logical connection between an acceptance of the Axioms and choice of the Dogma   |
|as the foundation for our moral and social lives, and the family as the basic unit of human society. The |
|Axioms of the Society of HumanKind give no reason or justification for the existence of our species, let |
|alone any of our social relationships. This consequence of the Axioms is encapsulated in the Principle of|
|Unity; is examined in the Treatise on the Individual; and is further explored in this second founding     |
|book of the Society, in the Essay on Equality. In all those places it is recognised that the Axioms are   |
|entirely neutral in these matters. They propose that neither our existence nor any aspect of our social   |
|organisation has any inherent reason or purpose. They say that if we had never emerged on our planet     |
|nothing in the universe would compel our presence, or any particular form of human society.               |
|We cannot derive the necessity for any of our social structures or relationships from the Axioms. Yet our|
|species seem always to have had some... [continues]

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