minimize the suffering

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

aethyrflux May 26, 2010 02:16

i continually return to a belief that the fundamental structures for humans' success & happiness are so simple ( Read more... )

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tyranny may be able to slow our progress, but the will of the people cannot be stopped

aethyrflux Jul 01, 2009 16:32

"Transparency is an essential condition of democracy: citizens cannot make the informed decisions self-rule requires if they are denied knowledge of the actions of their government. Government cannot be accountable if its actions are veiled. But more than this, transparency is an ethical ideal, the political expression of a commitment to honesty ( Read more... )

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pleasure production & harm reduction...

aethyrflux Apr 17, 2007 16:13

( isn't it funny how questions of ethics so often return to the question of what we eat? )

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Subsistence Among the Orang Asli

aethyrflux Mar 15, 2003 15:03

( let_us_return_to_indigenous_culture )

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