The Most Wanted Moral System

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The best moral system in the world is where greatest number of people fulfill the greatest number of their dreams.

This is the most wanted moral system by tautology.
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Not by tautology. It is the best IF  you value the well being of all people. IF  you are sadistic, sociopathic or extremely selfish, it will not be the best moral system. All moral systems are dependent upon an individual's values.
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It is most wanted by all people as a whole.
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You are correct if most people value the well-being of all people.
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People as a whole are a group of goals and wants.

This system is best suited for satisfying greatest number of wants of greatest number of people.

So it is the one desired by greatest number of people, as it fulfills many of their wants.

Any system which fulfills wants of some, but not of many, cannot be as desired by many.
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Hypothetically, if a poll were taken of every person on earth and it turns out that the majority do not want happiness for anyone but themselves, would your system still be the most wanted?
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My system is a society without contradiction.

So, goals that people have which they all can fulfill.

However, if the only desire of every individual is to prevent the other individual from achieving his goal, then such society is in contradiction since no individual has any common goal with the other individual.
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Also, in your example, no individual can realize his goal if anyone else realizes theirs.
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My system is a society without contradiction.
Do you think we currently live in a society where most people value all other people's well-being?
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Do you think we currently live in a society where most people value all other people's well-being?
No, but I believe people value their own goals and many of their goals are not contradictive, thus can exist with others at the same time.

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In your non-contradictive society, how would you account for competition? If 100 people are applying for one dream job opening, then there will 99 people who will not fulfill their dreams. What about sports? If it is the dream of many people to win an event but only one can do it, that leaves the dreams of the majority unfulfilled. It would seem that competition could not exist in that society.
What about desires? If many people dream of owning a one-of-a-kind piece of art, the dreams of the majority who don't own it will be unfulfilled. It would seem that desire, in some instances, could not exist in that society.
Greed could not exist, or any vices, for that matter as they might adversely affect someone else.
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If 100 people are applying for one dream job opening
Those are contradictive goals. Contradictive goals cannot be all realized.

Only non-contradictive goals can be all realized.


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@TwoMan
You have billions of people living next to each other. Thus, their desire for life is not in contradiction for billions of them.

Same applies to their freedom of movement.

Same applies to the food they choose to eat.

I would just take it a step further and enable as much goals as possible which can be common for all, so that contradiction in society is reduced and more goals are fulfilled.

But you are right. There is always going to be some competition and contradiction. There are some goals which cant be common for all, as they cant be realized by all, but only by some.
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If many people dream of owning a one-of-a-kind piece of art, the dreams of the majority who don't own it will be unfulfilled. 
Lets say that all people dream of owning something beautiful.

Thus, the beautiful art can be owned by each person.

They dont all have to have same piece of art. They can have some other art they are happy with and want to have.

Same applies to job. Sure, not all can have the most wanted job, but there are other jobs who are also wanted.