All other knowledge is harmful to him who has not the knowledge of goodness.
[Toute autre science, est dommageable à celuy qui n’a la science de la bonté.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 “Of Pedantry [Du pedantisme]” (c. 1572-78) (1.24) (1595) [tr. Ives (1925), ch. 25]
#quote #quotes #quotation #goodness #knowledge #learning #morality #virtue
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Good. From the opponents I still didn't hear any arguments about why those in terminal illness should be forced to endure prolonged agony with little or no chance of recovery. Certainly palliative care should be improved but I think that's tangential : there will always be those who are absolutely untreatable. Leaving them to suffer when there's another option isn't right. Criminalising those who want to help their loved ones avoid unnecessary suffering is wrong.
The other main argument that people would feel pressured into it is more disturbing... who thinks all their nearest and dearest are secretly out to bump them off ? The general question of whether one should be allowed to end one's own life isn't an easy moral issue, but that's too broad to be really meaningful. This particular bill adds the important qualifier of "while in a terminal illness as determined by two doctors and approved by a high court judge". That's an extreme case which to me is much easier to address. True, sometimes patients make seemingly-miraculous recoveries, but nothing this complex is ever perfect. When you're as confident as is possible to be that you're going to suffer horribly with a negligible chance of recovery, surely it should be one's own choice as to whether to accept that or not.
A quotation from Chomsky, Noam
Another point of disagreement [with Lesser Evil Voting] is not factual but involves the ethical/moral principle […] sometimes referred to as the “politics of moral witness.” Generally associated with the religious left, secular leftists implicitly invoke it when they reject LEV on the grounds that “a lesser of two evils is still evil.” Leaving aside the obvious rejoinder that this is exactly the point of lesser evil voting — i.e. to do less evil, what needs to be challenged is the assumption that voting should be seen a form of individual self-expression rather than as an act to be judged on its likely consequences. […] The basic moral principle at stake is simple: not only must we take responsibility for our actions, but the consequences of our actions for others are a far more important consideration than feeling good about ourselves.
Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) American linguist and activist
“An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)” (2016-06-15) [with John Halle]
#quote #quotes #quotation #candidate #choice #consequences #election #evil #lesseroftwoevils #moralchoice #morality #responsibility #selfexpression #voting
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So no TV at all. No photos taken with microscopes of bacteria. No photos of any land not utterly barren. No photos of the sky with passing birds or insects. No Internet because of the ubiquitous cats. Seems simpler to ban all photos.
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Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America,
a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in
the public domain.
by Agence France-Presse
Kabul --
Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a
law banning news media from publishing images of all living things,
with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.
"The law applies to all Afghanistan... and it will be implemented
gradually" by persuading people images of living things are against
Islamic law, spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice Saiful Islam Khyber told AFP.
The Taliban government judiciary recently announced legislation
formalising their strict interpretations of Islamic law imposed by the
authorities since they swept to power in 2021.
The law detailed several rules for news media, including banning the
publication of images of all living things and ordering outlets not to
mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law.
Aspects of the new law have not yet been strictly enforced, however,
and Taliban officials continue to regularly post photos of people on
social media.
Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country
under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict
has so far not been broadly imposed since their return to power.
#afghan-taliban #taliban #afghanistan #images #photographs #television #movies #motion-pictures #videos #internet #morality
#politics #war #gaza #israel #morality #anti-antisemitism #hipocrisy
Being a convicted pedophile and child rapist doesn't either.
This is how the western civilization is showing their moral superiority.
#Olympics #Hyppcrish #Inhumanity #Raciam #Intolerance #Xenophobia #Genocide #Pedophile #WesreenValues #Morality #Paris2024
Quite unusual for me, but I just couldn't watch the lying, screaming, cult-fest all over the TV screens now...
So I checked into the interwebs here, and what did I see? Well, it is a family affair in #TrumpVirus-ville
Well, we've seen much much worse almost every day from that cesspool of evil and strange, the 'mind' of Donald's #truth & #social ...
#GQP #morality #hypocrisy #WeirdMan Such a loving and normal family! Nobody more qualified to be your savior, enduring bullets for you.
Making my #media rounds and came across this #HuffPost post on #discord, where the end-times #Post (RIP) was re-locating.
For a moment, I was frustrated by the lack of details. I followed links. Then I took a breath and reflected:This is it.... "it is what it is".
Silence from anyone with morals, critical reasoning, &/or fact-checking skills or even human perspective/empathy/intuition....
From the tumbleweed headquarters of public-service, reality-focused #GQP leadership (even the ones not guilty on #Jan6)
#truth #morality #accountability #law #morals #DefendingTheIndefensible #TrumpVirus #corruption #Jan6 #traitors
Every rock star began as a long-haired freak in a garage with a dream of a record deal and groupies. Every best-selling author began as a would-be writer being told that no one buys books. Every successful entrepreneur began by faking it until he made it. Every revolutionary began as a nobody. None of them had the odds on their side. Victory wasn’t assured; it wasn’t even plausible; it was so unlikely as to seem impossible! It was all a LARP… until it wasn’t.¹
The reason so many successful actors, musicians, and politicians are narcissists is that in order to become a highly successful actor, musician, or politician, you have to take long shots against long odds. Often the only people who take long shots against long odds are the people who are self-deluded enough to think they’re better than all the others who tried and failed.
People like Lenin.
#Lenin was a #self-deluded #nobody. He was a #loser. He had accomplished virtually nothing with his life except a stint in the #gulag. He was nowhere near as influential as the well-established figures who currently are prominent among the dissident right. He wasn’t even… #NickFuentes.
But Lenin he changed the world. Sure, he changed it for the worse — but he changed it. And so could we.
The advantage we have as #Christian #Nationalists presently subject to the #wicked #madness of #ClownWorld is that we know, as Bob Marley said, #Babylon is going to fall. Its fall is absolutely 100-percent guaranteed, because Clown World is a #rebellion against #God, God’s #Law, and God’s #Creation. It is a rebellion against #morality, #mathematics, #Nature, and #physics, and as such, it cannot possibly be sustained.
It is our job to be the hard place upon which Clown World shatters. Because Clown World is caught between a rock and a hard place, and the rock, being #JesusChrist, isn’t going to break.
We are #outsourcing #morality at this point, we are outsourcing #combat operations, we are outsourcing moving children, we are training other individuals, we are outsourcing #police operations. These are very morally poignant jobs that we are just giving to people 'saying hey you've had 2 weeks of training; come on in'.
#mercenaries #pmc #Iraq #USA #private #military #war #Blackwater
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/outsourcing-morality-blackwater-and-beyond-with-morgan-lerette
On the need for certain metadata in moral discussions. If you're going to contend that there's a difference in demographics, then it's a reasonable request to know what it is you plan to do with such information if it's true. If you're argument is mainly about what will happen in the future because of certain changes in the law, then it's reasonable to expect you to say if that change is bad in and of itself or if you're only concerned with a possible slippery slope. In both cases, if we don't know your wider opinions around such issues, then it's very difficult to have any sort of productive debate.
"A.community of cruelty" is what the #GQP and its #cult of #TrumpVirus and hate has become.... late of "Christianity".
As discussed by The Politics Girl and Pastor John Pavlovitz, on the day after Christmas.
Mostly about memories of growing up within the church, not as dogma, but as immersion in the words and teachings of Christ, from which the name of the religion is derived. And becoming estranged, not from the teachings, but from the "organized" aspects over time, and the trending away from the concepts like compassion and generosity into the use of "generic" allusions to God and religion, as messaging tools for mega-churches and a once-political party merging with "evangelicals" who embrace division and hate.
Anyway, it's nearly an hour, but just the first few minutes and the comments will give a sense... stay for the show if it engages.
#Christmas #Christianity #coopting #GQP #cult #faith #morality #hypocrisy #religion
❌ #Wealth without #work.
❌ #Pleasure without #conscience.
❌ #Knowledge without #character.
❌ #Commerce without #morality.
❌ #Science without #humanity.
❌ #Religion without #sacrifice.
❌ #Politics without #principle.
Origin: the list became widely known after being published by Gandhi in his #newspaper in October 1925.
#india #history #sin #philosophy #moral #society #guide #quote #wisdom
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/CT_1711:f?r=8fGMofvxii2ZPGaB6Wo3Q1i5oeM9PKKJ
Gaza is the graveyard of international law; graveyard of Western morality
--- Ghada Ageel, https://youtu.be/ZJl5Agzh300?si=t_TY3aq4I-sjDJfe&t=1065
#Gaza #morality #genocide #InternationalLaw #death #GhadaAgeel
https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=0YM9hYuEPj4
https://jairofunez.substack.com/p/malcolm-xs-speech-on-palestine
‘The battle for justice in Palestine is not merely a political struggle. It’s an elemental moral battle. It’s the fight for the most basic human rights of the people who have suffered these injustices for far too long. It’s the fight for the right to exist in peace and security, free from the ceaseless specter of violence and dispossession.’
#malcolm-x #freedom #peace #speech #1960s #transcript #freepalestine #justice #politics #morality #history #humanrights #security #stopthegenocide #ceasefire-now
source: https://autonomousweapons.org
Algorithms are incapable of comprehending the value of human #life, and so should never be empowered to decide who lives and who dies. Indeed, the United Nations Secretary General #AntónioGuterres agrees that “machines with the power and discretion to take lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant and should be prohibited by international law.”
Mankind would be well advised if its technology did not overtake its ethics.
#humanRights #future #technology #drones #military #security #AI #humanity #morality #ethics #morals #uno #problem #software #algorithm #terror #war #conflict #Slaughterbot #robot #weapon
