Tag Archives: values

Markets and values

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 10/November/21 ] The responsibility to take reasonable action to ensure the life of everyone always outweighs any other personal desire for freedom. Freedom is a vital part of being human, but it must have responsibility if it is to … Continue reading →

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Israeli response to Covid

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Ted Howard NZ

Comment to Chris’s facebook posted in full the Israelinational plan to fight the Delta wave. [ 30/August/21 ] Sorry Chris, but his approach does not value life highly – and that is the issue around the world. There is, always … Continue reading →

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Is it possible to get over population under control?

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Ted Howard NZ

Is it possible to get the world’s over population under control? It is the number one cause of so many needless problems.[Changed to How can we control population growth] [ 25/April/21 ] Like several others here, I assert that the … Continue reading →

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Moral responsibility and climate change

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Should we hold individuals morally responsible for climate change? [ 8/10/20 ] What do you mean by moral responsibility? Are we morally responsible for supporting an economic system that guarantees poverty for the masses rather than one that ensures that … Continue reading →

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Rights and responsibilities

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Facebook post by Diana Paulikas [ 7/10/20 Facebook post by Diana Paulikas (#workprocastination) on “The American experiment”] The last time I was in Washington DC I literally wept as I read the inscriptions on the buildings and sidewalks that held … Continue reading →

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Worth

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Where does worth come from? Do you think you are worth something as long as people remember & recall you, but once earth and all things on it becomes extinct there is nothing to give you worth and your contributions … Continue reading →

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Loyalty

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 21/9/20 Daniel’s Facebook page – he asked “What does loyalty mean to you?Who and what are you loyal to and why?”] I am loyal to the values of individual life and individual liberty; and I acknowledge that all liberty … Continue reading →

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Overview – Vote for Ted Howard – Kaikoura Electorate

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

If you look hare at the many things I have written, you will find some consistent themes. My prime values have not changed: 1/ Individual life – mine and everyone else’s. 2/ Individual liberty – and that has to come … Continue reading →

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Lifeboat Foundation facebook page – What do you want out of life?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 31/8/20 On Lifeboat Foundation facebook page – What do you want out of life?] Security (including indefinite life & health extension), liberty (which includes responsibility for the biophysical and social systems that make life and liberty possible), and reasonable … Continue reading →

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Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else? [ 18/8/20 ] No. It is cooperate or perish. We either wake up to the mathematical and logical reality that all new levels of complexity require new levels of … Continue reading →

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