1544 - "And I'm floating in the most peculiar way."
I don't want to punch Derrick Jensen as much as I thought I would. At least so far (less than a hundred pages in of a 500-ish page book and this is just part one). His arguments and conclusions are farily well thought out (though I disagree of course) but he occasionally has a really nice way of phrasing things that I do agree with.
The fifth premise of this book is that the property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control-in everyday language, to make money-by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below. This is called justice.
The fifth premise of this book is that the property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control-in everyday language, to make money-by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below. This is called justice.