I don't see the distinction <g>
We were talking about a "common basis." Individual ethics are, er, individual.
I guess I'm not quite finished with this after all. I have two observations based on what I've gleaned from our colloquy.
The first is that you and I have no common basis. Beyond speaking the same language, we don't communicate at all. Is that for a lack of common ethics? I think not. We both instinctively accepted the implied objective of that committee, which was to ease human suffering. There was no difference between us on that. Sounds like a common ethic to me,
Where we broke down is that we have no common methodology for addressing the topic of the colloquy. You say words. I say words. Nothing clicks with the other. The topic goes nowhere. You don't process information or present ideas in any way that is familiar to me. Perhaps my writing likewise looks like word soup to you. No common methodology for "addressing problems and making decisions". Ergo, it's the methodology, not the ethic, that we do not hold in common.
My second point is an observation on the committee and its work towards our shared ethical objective. The committee didn't designate a dime towards GW. GW came in dead last. It came in last because efforts to stop GW are throwing money down a rat hole, not cost effective, especially in comparison with all the easing of human suffering that could be bought with that same money.
How can the disparity between the committee and the GW zealots be explained? Perhaps the GW zealots don't share the human-suffering ethic. I've not been able to get a statement from anyone advocating massive efforts to stop GW about what the purpose behind that is. Perhaps the purpose is something other than combating human suffering. Dunno. No one will tell me. Or, if combating human suffering is, indeed, the underlying purpose, then perhaps they, unlike the committee, haven't thought through how ineffective it is to spend a lot of money on GW when there are so many other more cost effective ways to combat human suffering. |
