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Tag Archives: values
Moral responsibility and climate change
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
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged Climate change, complexity, Morality, Responsibility, values
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Rights and responsibilities
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
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, Politics, Responsibility, rights, values
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Worth
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
Loyalty
[ 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
Overview – Vote for Ted Howard – Kaikoura Electorate
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
Posted in Ideas, Nature, Our Future, Politics
Tagged Communication, complexity, cooperation, Economics, future, Philosophy, Politics, values
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Lifeboat Foundation facebook page – What do you want out of life?
[ 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
Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?
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
Posted in economics, Ideas, Longevity, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Abundance, complexity, cooperation, freedom, future, Longevity, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, risk mitigation, technology, understanding, values
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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?
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
Posted in economics, Ideas, Longevity, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Communication, complexity, cooperation, Economics, Ethics, freedom, future, Longevity, Politics, risk mitigation, technology, uncertainty, understanding, values
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JBP Study group – nothing should go back to normal
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
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged Abundance, complexity, cooperation, freedom, future, Jordan Peterson, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding, values
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A day of celebration.
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
Posted in diary, economics, Our Future
Tagged Abundance, complexity, cooperation, diary, Evolution, freedom, future, understanding, values
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