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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (229384)8/14/2013 3:42:23 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (4) of 542353
 
" I much prefer a kinder, gentler world, but I also acknowledge that all the beauty I see in the ecosystem is the result of a very long history of pain. That is a much more interesting philosophical question than most the questions which philosophers occupy themselves with..."

I think philosophers who deal with utilitarianism often tackle this question, but those philosophers are also often hated :-)
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