[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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