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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (100781)2/17/2005 8:39:28 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 793772
 
It's critical to differentiate between the consensus part and the whole package. The rest of the package is up in the air.

It is all about degree <g>. It is all about getting the right balance. That is also nature.

No one seriously disagree that we produce a lot of pollution, we waste a lot of resources, that humans produce a lot of harm to the environment, and that we could and should do better.

There is probably very little daylight between our views on this matter.

But, the philosophy behind our views and how we solve these problems are something else. Forget for the moment all the extreme views on either side. The basic difference between left and right is the philosophic view as I see it, it is this:

We live in a world now where a lot of things are interconnected - including the environment, economics, and world order. We can't go it alone on a lot of this stuff. We can't dictate a lot of stuff. We can't get a few dozen people on this thread to agree on everything and to get the world to agree on anything is even more difficult.

The choices are these:

1 - we exhibit leadership and try to persuade the world to go along with us.

2.- we can go it alone - and do everything our way.

3. we can use force and tell everyone how we want them to behave.

For me, I think we should find a balance between 1 and 2. We should reject 3 all together.
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