Skeptiko001
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again, these are fair points Alex, but think big picture, UN style (not that we should be a fan of the UN I can tell you horror stories)
The simple answer is there’s always some grey, but as helping Mischelle understand, we mustn’t let the perfect ruin the good. Again, don’t let the perfect rob the good.
We can always come up with some outliers of “yeah, but” however, just like a small portion of negative NDEs, don’t let that rob the overall 90% positive wonderful human NDEs accounted for. At some point, the child you fought for in Somalia who gets his vaccine and survives the bullshit childhood disease his pediatric friends once died from, at one point he will grow old and grey and may very well become a child molester. So we deal with it then. It does not change the principles and basic human rights we can stand for. Of course there’s is grey areas like amount of equal pay, affirmative action, abortion, but none of these were listed.
We are talking the brain dead obvious stuff for the general population, which yes will include some good guys and bad guys, but I don’t hear any of you arguing with our subways here in the US to start morality screening before the can come aboard and use our tax dollars even though they may be an undiscovered child molester. To some degree, we decided as society to let everyone use our bridges, planes, hospitals and public transit without knowing the true morality of anyone (unless convicted of something they’ve really did).
When dealing with public policy for folks like me in the business of it or folks just discuss/voting on it, my message to you After years of work with professors and local leaders from various cultures and lands and languages, is “don’t let the perfect ruin the good”. Yes ‘good’ can have some debate of what is, but ultimately let us not make a mountain of molehill when discussing access to food, water, shelter, medicine, physical safety from rape/murder. We don’t want philosophical masturbation blinding us to their “goodness”
John
The simple answer is there’s always some grey, but as helping Mischelle understand, we mustn’t let the perfect ruin the good. Again, don’t let the perfect rob the good.
We can always come up with some outliers of “yeah, but” however, just like a small portion of negative NDEs, don’t let that rob the overall 90% positive wonderful human NDEs accounted for. At some point, the child you fought for in Somalia who gets his vaccine and survives the bullshit childhood disease his pediatric friends once died from, at one point he will grow old and grey and may very well become a child molester. So we deal with it then. It does not change the principles and basic human rights we can stand for. Of course there’s is grey areas like amount of equal pay, affirmative action, abortion, but none of these were listed.
We are talking the brain dead obvious stuff for the general population, which yes will include some good guys and bad guys, but I don’t hear any of you arguing with our subways here in the US to start morality screening before the can come aboard and use our tax dollars even though they may be an undiscovered child molester. To some degree, we decided as society to let everyone use our bridges, planes, hospitals and public transit without knowing the true morality of anyone (unless convicted of something they’ve really did).
When dealing with public policy for folks like me in the business of it or folks just discuss/voting on it, my message to you After years of work with professors and local leaders from various cultures and lands and languages, is “don’t let the perfect ruin the good”. Yes ‘good’ can have some debate of what is, but ultimately let us not make a mountain of molehill when discussing access to food, water, shelter, medicine, physical safety from rape/murder. We don’t want philosophical masturbation blinding us to their “goodness”
John