On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:58 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 10/31/2013 3:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> I believe there's an important aspect of this type of discussion that >> is rarely considered. This sort of thing takes almost a religious tone >> where we are supposed to feel guilty. I'm very suspicious of this sort >> of thing. I was indoctrinated by catholic sunday school to feel guilty >> about things that I didn't even yet understand. This type of discourse >> has a similar smell. > > > I agree with that. But just because we aren't guilty, doesn't mean we can't > do anything to redress the problem.
Agreed. I also think that, pragmatically, the guilt trip doesn't do anything. Politicians are too sociopathic, they will just use it as an opportunity to gain more power while appearing to care. I put more faith in technological solutions like geo-engineering. > >> >> Neither you, Brent, nor me, nor anyone in this list is at fault. >> There's nothing we can do to prevent this. I would argue for a more >> radical idea:_nobody_ is at fault. There isn't a single human being >> that has the power to revert the way in which our species operates. >> Again, I don't mean to make a political point and defend or condemn >> certain ideologies. I mean to make a biological point: we are not >> social insects. We are somewhat altruistic but by far not as >> altruistic as super-sister ants. This is just how we evolved. We don't >> know for how long we'll be able we'll be able to survive as a species >> and we can't stop being human. The earth won't care. If we go extinct, >> other species will take our place. Or not. In the great scheme of >> things, does it really matter? > > > Does anything matter in the great scheme of things? I don't know. I care > about what matters to me. > > Brent > "It does not matter now that in a million years nothing we do now will > matter." > --- Thomas Nagel Nice! Telmo. > > >> >> Meanwhile, we seem to be rather special children of the Universe, in >> the sense that we are a mechanism by which the Universe can >> introspect: powerful telescopes, particle accelerators, these are all >> part of the introspection. There's beauty in that, and ephemeral >> things are even more beautiful. >> >> Sorry for the moment of zen:) >> >> Telmo. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
