If you could choose the legacy you leave behind, what would it be and why?
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    What we should be doing for our future is important.

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    @thatrahrah
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    What’s it all about, Alfie?
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    I have always found it to be a most poignant song/question and I wanted to ask it again in a milieu where it would be wrestled with a tad. With the 24 hour news cycle constantly informing us yet increasingly we have no clue as to what is really going on in the world.
    is viewing events the best way for us to understand the world? Or should we be looking deeper?

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    Tess Maskell
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    How is a good collective decision made?
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    John Briggs
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    Why are we so afraid of the soul?
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    I don’t believe it is considered enough. I believe the soul is at the core of what makes us beings, but we seem to shy away from treating our souls with tenderness and significance.

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    Kirsty Murphy
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    Is it possible to be a fatalist, an existentialist and a nihilist all at once?
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    @leglesslegs
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    Why can’t we have a government that can budget properly and have a caring attitude to the needy at the same time?
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    Kevin Blyth
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    Why do we find it so difficult to keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind?
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    To quote the late great Christopher Hitchens in introducing his autobiography, Hitch-22, “The most intense wars are civil wars, just as the most vivid and rending personal conflicts are internal ones, and what I hope to do now is give some idea of what it is like to fight on two fronts at once, to try and keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind, even occasionally to show two faces at the same time.” From the personal to the political, and the intersection of the two, why do we find it so difficult to keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind?

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    Andrew Legg
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    What lies in the future of Australia if we do not want to rely on mining, overseas students and toursim?
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    It is about the future of ours and generations after.

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    @frecklecat
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    Does democracy allow for diversity, which is equitable?
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    I am a teacher and very interested in finding peaceful pathways for multi-culturalism.

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    @@PreludePrefect
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    How can liberals and conservatives find common ground towards genuine progress?
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    I’m a recovering Catholic and apathetic atheist, classic Greens voter from a very conservative family. I’d like to know the answer so that we can all stop fighting.

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    @pintadoguy
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    Does agency exist when so many social structures, factors and norms pre-determine our life choices and outcomes?
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    Life in a democracy is presented as a level playing field where we can make rational, informed choices, but our fate is sealed by social norms. The cost of going of rallying against means that many won’t even question the possibility.

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    Soraya
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    Who really gets to narrate history?
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    In a university class at the moment I am learning about indigenous land injustice. I came up with this question in a tutorial. History is not objective, and who really shapes it?

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    Bella Barker
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    Is there such thing as too much hope?
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    I’m asking because to get through hard times I hold onto hope for the outcome i wish. ( if someone i am in love with will come back to me) is it unhealthy to hold onto this hope?

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    Kirsty Tascas
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