If we behaved as if ethics mattered, the world would be a radically different place.
The big issues are not nearly as complex as we assume.
The Gordian knot of every human endeavor can be cut by a fairly simple assessment of ethical responsibility.
Be decent.
Decency has become a luxury, after all your other needs are met, maybe you can feign it... used to be even if starving you were kind.
But then that is what you get when you build a culture upon the premise of competitive ownership of conspicuous wealth.
An innate decency: no flight of ideological fancy far enough that you cannot find your way back to it. Buoyed like this, society survives.
Politics is compromise, so decency is compromised, but there is a vast difference between agenda-driven politics and ethics-driven politics.
Ethics considers the human in the equation. Likewise it considers the connective tissue between ideologies, identifies their boundaries.
We are not bees in service of the pollination of ideas. The ideas ought to be in service of us, or they should be dispensed with.
Complexity cloaks circularity, it is the way unethical power aggregates as a self-sustaining web of axioms.
The big issues are not nearly as complex as we assume.
The Gordian knot of every human endeavor can be cut by a fairly simple assessment of ethical responsibility.
Be decent.
Decency has become a luxury, after all your other needs are met, maybe you can feign it... used to be even if starving you were kind.
But then that is what you get when you build a culture upon the premise of competitive ownership of conspicuous wealth.
An innate decency: no flight of ideological fancy far enough that you cannot find your way back to it. Buoyed like this, society survives.
Politics is compromise, so decency is compromised, but there is a vast difference between agenda-driven politics and ethics-driven politics.
Ethics considers the human in the equation. Likewise it considers the connective tissue between ideologies, identifies their boundaries.
We are not bees in service of the pollination of ideas. The ideas ought to be in service of us, or they should be dispensed with.
Complexity cloaks circularity, it is the way unethical power aggregates as a self-sustaining web of axioms.
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