by Lanci B | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, What rights does every human being have
“Broadly speaking, in the United States, that would be life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness if you wish to go with Jefferson or life, liberty and property if you like the 14th Amendment. Both mean the same thing: property, happiness, wealth, earnings, savings, love, inheritance, intellect, ideas, concepts, goals , your favorite skate board, your soul. More explicitly; the 26 inalienable rights in the Bill of Rights and the 6 additional citizenship and voting rights in the subsequent Amendments.
Every person has these rights because our governance confirms what we all know to be true; we have them because they come from our Creator (or whatever deity you like or just from your own conscious mind) and not from any man or government and cannot be taken away because they are eternal and belong to no one but you.
It is the nature and the important weight of these rights that sets them apart from other concepts of desirability, hopefulness, sincerity and convenience that would be nice to have if there were a way to get them without depriving others of something for them. And no matter how desirable they may seem to be, they can be taken away if the resources for gaining them are simply not there.
The big 3 in the first paragraph and the 32 enumerated are not just inalienable and yours, they are truly free and come with nothing but your determination of hang on to them. They come for free, as long as you have freedom.”
by Big Dave | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, If humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens, would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence OR argue for the end of the human species? How?
“Depends on what the aliens thought we were guilty OF, really. Why are we on trial? Because we kill each other? Irrelevant your honor, since your alien fleet is here to wipe out humanity. You aliens kill other species. Is it the ideological reasons we kill each other? There are 190 nations on this planet, with varying ideologies that constantly change and shift. One of them is bound to match your ideological views if you look closely enough (and in some nations, there is no ‘core ideology’, but a bizarre mishmash of belief, which means that even folks in countries you don’t like will have ideologies you approve of).
Is it resources you need? We have water here, but it’s dirty….Try the Kuiper belt, or Saturn’s rings, or the comets, for cleaner water. So, for whatever galactic law were have supposedly broken, whatever moral code we are in violation of, I’d find the loophole, the exemption, the excuse to get them to back off. If all else fails, if humans truly WERE reprehensible and irredeemable, I’d argue that the court is wasting resources because we are very likely to wipe ourselves out in a few hundred years anyway, so why bother expending effort to kill something that’s already dead?”
by David R | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, What rights does every human being have
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets out 30 human rights that can broadly be grouped into civil and political rights such as free speech, voting and fair trials etc. as well as social and economic rights, such as the rights to work eduction and health etc. Here’s a link to it: Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
by Mike R | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, What would be the most ethical way to give away 5 million dollars
“Probably the most effective places for your money are third world health and sanitation charities. For short term impact that is charities focused on malaria and other parasitic disease, and for medium term impact look at sanitation and water provision. Long term, perhaps education and equality in the third world. Personally, I tend towards a medium and long term outlook, and put quite a lot towards Oxfam and similar organisations, though they do run the risk of being wasteful in a way the more narrow short term charities can avoid.”
by Ron L | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, What would be the most ethical way to give away 5 million dollars
“Invest the money in a trust and have most of the interest earned payed out to a charity. Have the target charity rotated annually. Research charities and select those with low management overhead. Inform the charity that the monthly donation is for one year to avoid expectations of continual funds. Ensure the principal cannot be accessed and that the fund is managed with low overhead. Set the trust up such that it can reasonably be expected to last 100 years or so. Specify what to do if the fund drops below some floor or exceeds a ceiling. Create a poison pill such that any attempt to access the principal liquidated the funds to a number of charities.”
by Travis H | Jun 3, 2020 | Ethics, If a person grew up in the wilderness without any human contact, how (if at all) would they be different from the rest of us
“Unfortunately, we know that persons developed in absence of human contact do not develop into what the common man would describe as human. The absence of human rearing and socialization prevents development of advanced linguistic and abstract cognitive capabilities; some of the most key aspects of humanity. In this way, it can be theorized that ‘being human’ is the result of engaging in a recursive memetic patterning process through which higher order consciousness is gradually acquired.”
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