[ExI] Seven deadly social sins
spike
spike66 at att.net
Thu Mar 13 14:24:37 UTC 2008
>
> Someone wrote "The seven social sins are":
>
> >1. "Bio ethical" violations such as birth control
> >2. "Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell
> >research
> >3. Drug abuse
> >4. Polluting the environment
> >5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
> >6. Excessive wealth
> >7. Creating poverty
>
...
Items 4 and 6 are contradictory, becoming ever more so. Those with
excessive wealth can afford cleaner technologies for living. Poor is dirty.
Actually this is an understatement. Number 8 is self contradictory. There
is no such thing as *excessive* wealth.
spike
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