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GliderGuider

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10. I don't know if that's your position...

Reply to Bob Wallace (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 07:59 PM

Dec 2011

After all I just met you a week ago.

There is a school of thought that says, "Life always finds a way", and points to the recoveries following things like the P-Tr event and the Toba bottleneck as proof.

Since Nature is amoral and we are as much a part of nature as mollusks and dinosaurs, why should morality factor into our relationship with nature (at least the non-human bits of it)? This seems to be the default world-view of modern industrial/technological civilization. Environmentalists tend to disagree, but that objection is quite anthropomorphic, with little connection to the utilitarian nature of the processes at work in the natural world.

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