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[khukuri] Ethics, human nature, and questions of inevitability | khukuri: What was of selective advantage in this kind of environment, so the logic goes, was anatomical and physiological equipment, and a behavioral repertoire, that both reflected the main features of the environment and consolidated the main ..... Rather, he had a growing appreciation of the complexities of the class struggle under socialism; a growing sense of the enormity of what had to be overcome, ranging from the weight of tradition to the entrenchment of capitalist ...

[Caelum Et Terra] Genetically Modified Organisms: A Catholic's Animadversions: The burden of my argument is this: genetic modification ought to worry people simply because of what it is””a way of manipulating natural codes we do not fully understand, with effects we may not be able to envision much less control.  All that we do is going to be irreversibly perpetuated in the wild once the seeds are out there, as has already happened and will continue to happen at an accelerating pace.16  This is a much more serious matter than, say, pollution caused by cars or airplanes.  All engines cause pollution, and pollution in general is a bad thing.  But there is only a remote connection between the use of any particular machine and the harm of the earth’s atmosphere.  The atmosphere can handle a lot of pollution, pollution isn’t self-reproducing, and finally, we and our animals don’t directly consume pollution, though it affects us in a variety of ways.  With GM seeds intended for the open fields””seeds that will grow into plants bearing many more seeds, until, by predictable patterns of consumption and random distribution, these new varieties come to be present in the entire food supply””there is a far more immediate, and a far deeper, concern.

[Cranach: The Blog of Veith] Over half of Democrats like socialism | Cranach: The Blog of Veith: Public funding for abortions will likely have a negleable effect on the overall number of children killed and I don’t know of any conservative Christians who think that Quakers should be allowed opt out of paying income tax because they don’t want to pay for our nations defence and any way it very likely the even the most hardened feminists would give up on public abortion coverage if it meant universal coverage in other respects)

[khukuri] Ethical Marxism: some themes and questions: 13 That the Cultural Revolution involved basic changes in the world outlook and motivation of the masses has been summarized by Zizek in this way: “Therein resides the necessity of the Cultural Revolution clearly grasped by Mao: as Herbert Marcuse put it in another marvelous circular formula from the same epoch, freedom (from ideological constraints, from the predominant mode of dreaming) is the condition of liberation, that is, if we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do not change those dreams themselves, sooner or later we regress back to the old reality“ (In Defense of Lost Causes, p. 196).

[MWR: Articles] MWR : Capitalism: un-Christian?: EMU, Goshen, Bethel, Bluffton and Hesston teach ethical capitalist practices in their classes. That is, they teach that one ought to take long-term sustainability, environmental, and social impacts of a given business plan into consideration, not merely what will gain the greatest short-term profits and bring investors the quickest turn around.

[everything was beautiful and nothing hurt] ambarvalia: THE WILD MIND: The bodhisattva is not anxious to do good, or feels obligation or anything like that. In Jodo-shin Buddhism, which my wife was raised in, the bodhisattva just says, 'I picked up the tab for everybody.

[Bisou] BuddyPress ”” Blog ”” Miyo Baby Hammock - Our Positive Experience: Antisemites have murdered Jews, sure, and antisemitic individuals in general are as guilty of the Holocaust as I am, but antisemitism per se has never killed anybody. It's a word, a concept, and as such antisemitism is as innocent as the swastika, a dozen Mohammad cartoons, or Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses.'

[AlterNet.org: Health and Wellness] The Growth of Citizen Co-Ops Is a Positive Development As ...: And though the failed (for the masses) laissez-faire/FREE-MARKET mentality and policies are constantly bandied about - at this point all Americans recognize the only thing trickling down is the crap from the Oligarchy!!

[The Kingdom Come] Review of 'AVATAR' Movie: A Christian Perspective | The Kingdom Come: Now, I know there has been and will be some controversy over the apparent promotion of paganism, as the alien race is very religious or "spiritual" in an evironmentalist way -- but again, if we were recounting the history and culture of the Native Americans, to leave out this aspect would not be framing the entire story.  However, I have noticed something interesting in space-based scifi flicks and tv shows -- humanity seems to never really believe anything.  Are humans to be thought of as having no faith?  I mean, society has been for centuries trying to downplay if not altogether expunge religion and especially Christianity from the human record.  Yet, we see movies and tv shows that fault humanity for being disconnected from "spirituality".  The true history of humanity, especially Europeans is that of a people so connected to a spiritual sense, that it permeated everything.  But for centuries, the elites in societies have shunned that spiritual sense and promoted instead a cold, calculated "scientific" approach.  I just find it a bit ironic if not hypocritical that those same elites are now faulting humanity for not being a spiritual race.

[Cranach: The Blog of Veith] The four ways liberals think about conservatives | Cranach: The ...: As a Christian who lived out his faith in his many different callings, Cranach thus embodies the Reformation doctrine of vocation, using the gifts God had given him in service to Christ and his neighbor in the church, the family, the workplace, and the culture. In the spirit of Lucas Cranach, this blog will discuss wide-ranging issues of Christianity and culture with a Lutheran twist.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » The Authoritarians In Our Midst: If government is to defend liberty and promote the common welfare, then it must promote and defend the integrity of the traditional family. In doing so, it will foster virtue and rebuild the country’s declining social and moral capital, thus fostering liberty and strengthening family.

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Causation Analysis: What “But ...: The Collectivist Societies of Europe, the Individualistic Societies of the English-Speaking Nations, the Totalitarian Societies from China to Venezuela, like London Bridge, all fell down. Let’s focus on getting those who gamble with other peoples money, that is, who take a cut of the winnings, but not a cut of the losses other people (such as ‘investors’

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Jesus the Capitalist: Another interpretation is an economic one: Jesus is saying that those who do not grow their riches (literally, prosper in an economic way through capitalism) should not benefit from the same economic system as those who do reap its benefits and make it grow, and they should be thrown out of the economic system (thrown into the darkness outside). Jesus also said: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto Me.” From this, we should all believe that those who absolutely cannot be part of capitalism, because of genuine physical or mental disabilities, should still be helped by those who do prosper from it’s benefits, but through charity, not through socialism.

[Acton Institute PowerBlog] Column: Christmas message should inform environmentalism « Acton ...: Ask yourself, which provides more protection for the environment: this view of the natural world that contends the order of the universe reflects the intentionality of a Creator who, in turn entrusts beings created in His image to care for and bring forth from creation its flourishing through a kind of environmental stewardship; or, the belief that the world is a chance collision of inanimate material forces that somehow produced being with no intrinsic dignity much less an august vocation to tend and perfect creation?

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Naming and shaming the AGW ...: This is particularly true when Eric has just explained how future innocent scientists could easily become enmeshed in future scientific / political scams. The same thing very typically happens to social scientists and economists, among others, in a wide variety of situations.

[Mises Economics Blog] U.S. Judge Grants Political Asylum to German Homeschoolers ...: Even though I consider organized religion (like coercive government) to be a satanic cult, there isn't a day that goes by that I"m not thankful that there are such people with this courage of conviction to stand up to the all powerful state, as it has provided me with the opportunity to educate my kids without interference from the state.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Avatar and the Environmental Religion: It’s a religion that doesn’t want to admit it’s a religion.  And the proof, beyond their almost comical contortions to justify these doctrines, is in this: when was the last time you heard someone try to sell you some mystical pap about gravity?  When a space shuttle departs, does your buddy wax rhapsodic about polar bears?  Is your Kindle a source for penance or obeisance?  To anyone?  At any time?  Science simply doesn’t work like this.  That’s both a good and a bad thing.  I happen to be a Christian, so religion doesn’t frighten me.  When I say environmentalism is a religion I’m not flinging an insult.  I just think it ought to be judged on those terms and defended on those terms, because it’s scarcely being treated, by most of its adherents, in any other fashion.

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