I am motivated to strive for a
survivable option for the future - so sorry.
That's the point Eva. You have a specific agenda in mind, and then reject
any information that doesn't support it.
We all do that to some extent, but "thinkers" will revisit beliefs when
presented with new
Mike raises the issue of human values - individual, cultural, and species
wide. The relationship of self-conscious free will and determinism as part
of nature is explored in a paper by Tom Clark linked below.
A main point I've tried rather unsuccessfully to make for the past two
years on this
- Original Message -
From: Michael Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"An Englishwoman...was accused of heresy in 1704...
[splatter details elided]
Remember that all she had to do to avoid torture was to change her
opinion.
You leave us to infer that so doing would have been "rational".
In
Date: February 20, 1999
To: IFFS/CAIA listserve
CSARE Ag Ethics Task Force
New Economics of Sustainability Group
Ecological Economics listserve
SANET - MG
(Please pardon duplicate mailings, those of you on
I kept out of Jay Hansons way for a long while now, especially since some
intelligent and very persevering people like Eva Durant answered him
sufficiently, but reading this just made my blood boil again.
One wonders if there is no ecological list where these same ongoing crazy
discussions are
Good subject title! :-)
Jan Matthieu wrote:
One wonders if there is no ecological list where these same ongoing crazy
discussions are not overshadowing what is really important.
Hope you agree that "what is really important" is 100% OPINION.
who now is going to take the place of evolution
The problem of health, commodities, the left vs.
the right, or the mental models that we bring to
these discussions seems to be making people angry
everywhere .The future of work is an
interesting thought except everyone only seems to
want to discuss the future of their work or their
...
Like it or not we have notions of good and evil, they're
important and we're stuck with them.
I don't like the notions of "good" and "evil" as they imply
relative (thus non-existent) human values.
However there are objectively definable
and measurable qualities, such as human rights,
From: Jan Matthieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are billions of people to be condemed to death because of YOUR
hundreds-of-years-old "beliefs" about "rights"?
So that's civilisation for you, doing away with everything valuable people
have died FOR in the past, like democracy for example, and indeed
