Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
The laws of the world codify and control
ethics drift
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Life is, from the start, about ethics drift. The rodents in the basement cannot take up undisturbed residence because they would soon drive me out of my home. I get a cat, purchase traps - might makes right and the mice have reasonably quick deaths. But they have rapid breeding and a balance is struck that all can live with.
Within human culture we have laws and lawyers and a different balance is struck. Unfortunately, it is less ethical than the balance of nature. The result is not happy.
See Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/this-changes-everything-capitalism-vs/9780307401991-item.html?s_campaign=goo-BooksByTitle&gclid=CI-4_fKAt8MCFYgAaQodq0kAdg
Life is, from the start, about ethics drift. The rodents in the basement cannot take up undisturbed residence because they would soon drive me out of my home. I get a cat, purchase traps - might makes right and the mice have reasonably quick deaths. But they have rapid breeding and a balance is struck that all can live with.
Within human culture we have laws and lawyers and a different balance is struck. Unfortunately, it is less ethical than the balance of nature. The result is not happy.
See Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/this-changes-everything-capitalism-vs/9780307401991-item.html?s_campaign=goo-BooksByTitle&gclid=CI-4_fKAt8MCFYgAaQodq0kAdg
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