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 your statement  ( how things should be ) is prescriptive.

my statements ( how things are ) are descriptive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

reality is you can't say how things should be unless there is a goal we can all agree on that your suggested solution is trying to help achieve

yet you never bothered to define such a goal - you're just rationalizing your own desires by saying the world should serve your personal interests over those of literally everybody else 

at the same time you do absolutely nothing to move the world in that direction other than constantly repeating what you want every day on 20 different forums hoping that through sheer repetition people will accept your point of view

and to be fair that is how most people accept ideas - by having these ideas repeated to them over and over 

but it works better on small children and you're telling your ideas to adults