We live in a world where moral decadence is the toil of the day. We happily entered the millenium year with full assurances that we have made a breakthrough in technology and the arts. But unfortunately, evil is high on daily basis. Can you imagine the rate of terrorists attacks today? Can you think about discrimination and bigotry among 'Neighbors". We have to apply ethical rules to know how to live this life with our neighbors. We have to create awareness programs through the various channels of communication to teach people who are inclined to do evil the consequences that will result from their acts. Everyone has a conscience, although some people have a dead conscience. We can distinguish between ourselves the notion of goodness and evil. And our conscience is the immediate judge of our actions. Uthman Dan Fodio said that conscience is an open wound and only the truth can heal it. The Nigerian polity is diseased from corruption, ineptitude, avariciousness, greed and what else? I just read in one of my internet news that a Senator earns N36 million Naira a month and a member of the House of Representatives earns N25 million Naira a month. Maybe since my life, I have never touched N36 million that a Senator earns in a month. What have they achieved for the citizenry? A REVOLUTION perhaps!
I believe that need to be replyed locally. Ethics and moral rules behave, and it's not by accident, like microeconomic and macroeconomic.
Hi,
There's truth in what you said. We need a multi - polar world with major powers from different continents. But I disagree that we had a better world before 1991, and the world was better between 1991 - 2008. Do you imagine what the world would have been like if The US had not pulled down the Berlin wall by 1990? George W. Bush had stressed on the New World Order, whereby human rights and fundamental freedoms of all and sundry will be respected. Instead what we witnessed is the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms resulting in wars mostly in the small states under the former Soviet Union and in Africa. And all these happened during the period you said was better. Coming to the issue of population explosion, there has to be a paradigm shift from what used to be to what is obtainable now. You remember what happened in Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Libya, Iraq etc. There was color blindness even to people who are termed "peaceful and accomodating". Ethnic cleansing is what has narrowed down population before this population explosion. But above all we are proponents of our tradition, and science will take us to much greater heights.
We can imagine the probability of possible worlds (David Lewis), and it's a good experiment.
I understand your view, but the "feeling" of better or worse can not be sensed in micro and macro too?
Your concerns about the war, and we aways have an war or conflict in some point of globe, are right, so we need to understand the root of any conflict, and we got that all are about natural resources, even if the resources are people. Behind, we have governments and corporations, selling weapons and war stuff.
Etichs are things the people do for the god of ALL, so if someone or you lost or suffer for something, that cannot be ethical. Could be heroic, but not ethical.
This is why the nazy experiments results are not used.
Let me try explain how are ethics misused. Everyone say that the best for planet is public transportation. But is not good for everyone, if they can use a bike, or even the cost of gas from home to work, for exemple are small that the cost of public.
Today blindness problem are in part this misuse of ethics. Like the explanation above, government are talk to individuals, trying to make individuals feels beter to "help", in someway that do not redolve the issue. we have a maxim that says "One single swallow (bird) do not make the summer" and if you think even a billion of swallows does, because summer are relationed to Earth translation.
So, my hope is that we (includes governments and corporations) begin to see ourselfs as earthlings.
Yes, Sandro, I agree to the probability of your imagination of our living in possible worlds made possible through scientific breakthroughs. But we have to proffer solutions to the practical necessary world we are living in right now.
I don't brag to be a Pacifist nor a Fascist or even the feeling of "better" or "worse" both in the micro or macro sense.
The root cause of wars is not all the while natural resources as you opine. David Hume propounded the theory of "cause and effect". You have to do a thorough research to know what that root cause of conflicts not governments or corporations that sell weapons of mass destruction. They are in business to make profit. That will make us to ask whether there is any morality in business?
There is a difference between Ethics and doing what is heroic. If you read The Odyssey of Homer, you will understand what I mean. I am not an equivocator.
Martin Heidegger will have a clearer answer on the issue of using public transportation. It is also sometimes what the Germans will say "Gezond Heid."
I dont mind you be pacifist or facist. Sorry if seemed like this. The question was a phenomenological rhetoric.
About the main issue, we get to the core. The ethical problem are not in the individuals. As you said, "there is any morality in business?". I think This lack of morality are not in business, but in the capitalism, that sells self-regulation of the market adn competition, but delivery richer corporations buyng, destroynig or joining the others. Regulations on the market do not help in microeconomy, since the operations can be moved to another place. The regulatory needs to be global.
The "Gezond Heid" dont works to somebody in a bike, which takes longer time among other vehicles, breathing their pollution. I really dont read Heidegger.
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