Comments on: Ethics Vs. Rewilding

By: carlysimon

carlysimon — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:21:47 +0000

“the more scientific ‘right’ and ‘wrong’”
science doesn’t do diddly with rights and wrongs Petey…positivist science has to do with fact finding to support knowledge claims. Religion, faith and philosophy is where you get into the rightyness and wrongyness

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:54:51 +0000

The pope? Huh? Lots of interesting tidbits here – I especially like the proposed Lakota translation of sacred. I will certainly make use of that one in the future.

To quote a Supreme Court justice – “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.”

I’d say something about ethics, but at this point I’d feel like I had begun buffetting the poor chap who expired flogging the dead horse.

By: Urban Scout

Urban Scout — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:09:27 +0000

Thanks for the props. I swear I get more mileage out of that Martin Prechtel interview…

By: Jacob Haqq-Misra

Jacob Haqq-Misra — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:18:24 +0000

That’s a wonderful excerpt on the Mayan worldview.

Part of the problem in our culture is the disconnect between production and consumption; very few people purchasing a knife today, for instance, would give a second thought as to all the work and energy that went into it–let alone the people who routinely frequent grocery stores for goods that were produced halfway across the world. This disconnect makes it very easy to lose the spiritual connection that many other cultures seem able to maintain.

I’m also reminded of the Futurama quote: “Right and wrong are just words. The important thing is what you do.”

Great thoughts!