Mark Jones wrote:
> > Let's see if I can cheer you up -- this a way
>
> Look, for the last time, I AM cheerful but if you keep telling me I'm not, I may
> change.
> >
> > Assume
> > for a second that you are wrong and it isn't too late
>
> This is the kind of thing which makes me fall over laughing.
Come on Mark -- you know the power of thought experiments,
and the truth or untruth of the premises in such simply is not
relevant. By focusing on this you throw the whole post off center.
Is it not true that there has *already* been immense suffering
in human history? Is that not just as real as the suffering that
is yet to come.? The point of the "let's assume" was the argument
that both premises (that it is too late and that it is not too late)
lead to the same personal and political conclusions.
The alternative to that argument is that repeated scene in disaster
movies in which people run mindlessly screaming down the street
in front of certainty, while a privileged elite meet the disaster
bravely and calmly. That is, as Hans argued implicitly some
months ago (responding to one of my posts) the *political*
implication of "certain ecological destruction" is a Platonic
Guardianship of humanity. And in practice such a Guardianship
is merely destructive.
Carrol
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