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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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Quora – Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world?

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Will global warming, automation, wealth inequality, in the future lead to a dystopian Authoritarian populist Eco-fascism/eco-socialism and or even societal collapse or will it all instead lead to a sustainable post-growth, Post -capitalist world? [ 1/8/20 ] In so far … Continue reading →

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JBP Study group – nothing should go back to normal

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Facebook – JBP study group – Joanna Hoffman shared a link to – Nothing should go back to normal [ 11/4/20 ] Far too many overly simplistic and destructive responses here. We are the most cooperative animal on the planet. … Continue reading →

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A day of celebration.

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

This day 26 years ago Ailsa and I got married. 22 years and 3 days ago the title for this house changed into our name (with a mortgage, which has been gone a couple of years). Today is a special … Continue reading →

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