Politicians seem to think that life is just a game, that people can be slaughtered and Mother Earth destroyed for meaningless reasons, reasons that make sense to no one.  Should we not be following the rules of nature rather than the rules of money and greed?
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G.W.Bush thought being a CEO of a Company Qualified him, it certainly was not his Military background, Monopoly didn't help him . he needed War games.
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I don't believe they go hand in hand, like cyanne claims, but they are certainly not polar opposites as you seem to claim.  Law is not about money, it is about ethics.  The problem is that law is written by politicians, and politics is about money.  You can group together law and ethics, you can group together law and politics, but you cannot group together politics and ethics.  Law is that which is torn between the two.
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I think that in this day and age, it is not practical to avoid doing anything that might harm the environment.  I consider myself a true environmentalist but I still drive my mom's minivan.  Al Gore never said in his movie that we should all pound our cars into whatever, maybe bury them and and walk everywhere or get horses.  He said, "If you can, by a hybrid."\n\nIt is our duty to ourselves and to our children and to God and to his creation to do what we can that is also practical to not harm the Earth.  And so I do.\n\nI went to the theatre and bought a ticket and admired Gore for getting back up after losing the election and fighting for what he believes in.  Yes, he had to be driven around in a car.  What would you expect him to do?  Walk or ride on horseback all over the U.S.?  I, however, personally don't agree that he should have flown when he could have driven, maybe his own car.  But that may have taken too long.  I think flying expends too much fuel.  As for charging admission for the movie, I went on the website about the movie and it said that at least a portion of this goes to the cause.  I forget how much.  I think it was worth every penny, anyway.\n\nI walk to the store, instead of driving because it is only 7 blocks away from my house.  When I go to the store, I bring cloth bags with me to avoid using their plastic bags.  When they put my groceries in their plastic bags before I can put them in my bags, I then take them out, put them in my cloth bags and then hand the plastic bags to them.  I buy distilled water because it is healthier than tap water but I have bought 2 of the gallon jugs of it from our stores "Water Island" and when we run out, I simply go and refill it at the Water Island for only 35 cents.  I never buy spring water or mineral water.  It is true like it says in Gore's movie, that this makes the springs, etc., smaller and hurts the wildlife that lives there.  I support, instead, distilling and recycling the water we use locally.\n\nI am saving up for a hybirid but I cannot afford to buy one right now.  I try to cut down on the elctricity that we use in the house.  In the summer, many times, I use the grill with charcoal instead of our electric stove.  We don't have lights on during the day.\n\nAnd when we go somewhere and are going to meet friends there, going to church, etc, we carpool, meaning we pick them up or they pick us up so we can save on gas.\n\nAt work, I am the one saving the empty boxes our merchandise comes in and taking them home to be recycled at the end of the day, that they were simply going to throw out.\n\nI am a memeber of a group called Freecycle, which is www.freecycle.com.  They have chapters all over the world and in many cities of the United States.  On this website, people give things away that they don't want anymore without having to throw them away or find a resale shop to drop them off at.  The person who answers your post simply comes and picks it up.  How many of you know someone who throws out a perfectly good pair of shoes that are only mildly worn?  I know lots of people.\n\nI recycle everything that can be.  When I am walking and I find an empty plastic bottle laying on the ground, I pick it up and take it home with me to be recycled.  The garbage bags I am using right now are from recycled plastic and it is taking me months to use them up because between the two of us in my house, we throw out very little, and recycle or compost the rest.  Our local recycling plant only accepts #1 #2 plastics, so we save all the other plastics, yogurt containers, etc. that are #3- #7 plastics and mail them to a plant in Romulus, MI about and hour's drive from us.\n\nWhen I go to church and they always have bulletins for us and music sheets to read, a lot of people leave these in the pews or they pile up on a shelf outside the santuary or even in the garbage and I stay after and gather all these things, even out of the garbage if
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I completely agree, except for the speculation that the environment might not get taken care of, simply based on the fact that there has been little done to help the environment all along.\nWith that said, I do feel Christians are living out a self fulfilling prophecy, as it is in human nature to create that which is most thought about. I do think it is an unfortunate reality, and something should be done about it! The problem, I feel, is really a no win situation though, considering that we are free to practice any religion we choose, and anyone has the potential to become a politician. It's an inherent catch 22 situation.
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Politics is a big money shell game\n\nThe politicians have to court the special interest groups that financed them\n\nNo one is held accountable any more\n\nIt is our age of " Enlightenment"
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Exactly.  If we continue to cheapen human life, then some of the supporters of these ideas will find themselves on the wrong end of them because they "no longer contribute to society" or some crazy junk like that.
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What you're advocating is philosophical anarchism. It's an old idea; and one that has been tried numerous times over the centuries to no good effect.\n\nThere's a simple problem with your view -- it only works if every single person in society behaves perfectly. Without government, what do you do if someone attacks you? What do you do if someone just wants something you have and decides to harm you to get it?\n\nEvery time anarchy has been tried in the past it has failed because the fact is, people aren't angels, and aren't going to behave like them. What happens under true anarchy isn't peace and love, but a Hobbesian state of nature -- a "War of each against all."\n\nSo the question stands. What do you do when you or your loved ones are attacked by others? What you do is band together with like minded individuals for mutual defense. You create rule to live by, and get people to enforce those rules. In short, you create government, because you need order.\n\nCan governments go too far? You bet. But your original question was "do we really need government?" And the answer to that question is, "Yes, we do."\n\nCheers, mate.
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all war is rooted in religious beliefs, masked by political agenda. people feel justified in killing because they believe that God is on their side, and not the other. this is an egoic belief. the truth is God is on all our sides and demonstrates this with free will. we are allowed to create whatever it is that we choose. even physical death. the purpose of this never ending game is evolution, to grow to re-member who we really are- individuations of Divinity. as we awaken our consciousness, more and more people will choose peace, and the suffering will cease. it starts with you. \nbe the change you want to see in the world. ~Ghandi
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Yes.  It comes from our primitive hunter-gatherer days.  Greed exists in all living things in this world, it is necessary for survival.  They (all living things) are greedy by taking advantage of the weak, it can be seen in nature and primitive tribes in the Amazon and Papua-New Guinea.  Some humans still participate in tribal warfare to steal women from neighboring tribes to propagate the species.  Some baby sharks eat the rest of their siblings while still in the womb before birth so they don't have to compete for the same food when they do come out (sorry run-on).  Even plants compete for the same sunshine, blocking sunlight from shorter plants therefore killing them--we know plants don't think, but can this be considered greed?  We (humans) are animals, whether we want to admit it or not.  Greed is natural and is all about survival.
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You are so correct and good to see that someone recognizes that there should be a amount of personal responsibility within politics. If Politicians were accountable for their actions on a yearly basis just like companies...He wouldn't have a JOB would he....duhh.....He has no reason in today's climate to carry the burden of responsibility. His spin doctors will push any necessary blame onto others.
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Well. the song of songs seems to put forth there is more to sex than making babies. \n\nYou can still have a moral society with out abortion, divorce, gay marriage, and Std's and still use birth control.\n\nGod wants us to be good stewards, and having more kids than we can take care of is not very moral either. \n\nWe do not live in an Era where the earth is empty, people have been fruitful and multiplied. Living n a urban structure means the need for a lot of kids is lessened. \n\nYour arguement is weak!\n\nbirth control = abortion, std, gay marriage, and divorce!?!?!?
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I've always said that we need to take care of our own first.  The truth is that we could take care of them all, and make things so much better for everyone, if the people in charge of all of this - the politicians and corporate leaders - weren't so d@mn corrupt.
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Corrupt politicians are traitors who betray the trust of the people. They should either be sent to the Firing Squad, the guillotine or simply HUNG from the nearest tree.
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all governments are powered by those they rule over. without the authority (our apathy) & taxes (our money) they are just idiots in the corner. all governments are inherantly wrong. they cant solve anyones problems, only create laws about it. there is nothing they do better than private industry, used to be space exploration but thats out now. obviously they cant protect but end up endangering us by producing policies that are the reason that 'terrorists' are mad enough to attack. the cure for a corrupt government isnt a bigger government, like the un, the cure is no government. basic technology has given each of us a voice (1.800 numbers, internet, ect), theres no more need for representatives that swell & bloat the governments to absorb so much of our wealth (taxes) that most live in poverty. the mindset is reliant on government so much that the thought of life without one is scarry & absurd. if you can think of something governments do really well, lemme know.
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Have you ever wondered whether the advances in science and technology would provoke nature’s need for revenge? Have you ever thought of what might happen if we keep on the exploit what we have, our lands and our bodies? Because I have. I feel that what nature is preparing for us will come out of the blue, exactly when we least expect it. And the cause for this would lie in our actions. And why? Simply because we have no idea what we’re doing while polluting our planet, using chemicals in everything and we are even thinking about modifying our children’s looks and brains. We are pushing our luck with the advances in agriculture, genetics and medicine. \n\nFor a start, all humans are so used to using technology and taking antibiotics that I’m not even sure that we could survive without them. For example, children weren’t used to such strong pills ten years ago as they are now, since a very young age. The research that I’ve made into the media shows that genetically improved corn makes the danger of famine in many parts of the world a thing of the past, but do these people realize that such meals don’t provide enough vitamins and thus puts their health at risk? And do they know how a specific body would react to such things? My opinion is that people should consider their interference in agriculture if they don’t want to provoke nature to strike back. \n\nModifying plants is not the only business of nature with which people mess up. Knowing the way your child will look like when it grows up is to be no longer something extraordinary. But if it becomes a normal thing to take a picture of a star and say that your heir looks like him or her, imagine how simple the child’s life would be, there would be nothing interesting or surprising to happen to its looks. Not only that, imagine what life would be if we all looked like dolls in the Disney shop :). In addition, the smallest and simplest mistake could cause mutations or provoke long-lost inherited diseases in the family tree. It is the same thing with the organs that will be created in laboratories soon- the risk of health ‘problems’ is too high. My research shows that the average lifespan would soon be over eighty years of age. And what will happen if everyone lived up to a thousand years old? The world would be overpopulated and the people who would work wouldn’t be enough to feed those who wouldn’t. And that would be a disaster. \n\nHowever, medicine is well developed nowadays. A patient who had an organ transplanted is celebrating the tissue’s tenth year of normal function in his body, according to the media. Transplantations make people with an infected organ live normally, but that has its price. First of all, it is very risky to undertake such an operation, but the results might be tremendous. The second threat comes right after the end of the surgeon’s ‘masterpiece’- the danger of inheriting diseases from the owner of the organ. In addition, I don’t think it is ethically correct to allow people to literally sell parts of their bodies. At least not for such prices like $2000, which is how much a kidney costs in Turkey. What’s more, we all know what kinds of risks cosmetic surgery involves- for example, if you make your lips bigger, the substance might decide to change its position in a year and move to your cheek. \n\nTo sum up, scientists’ ability to make nature work for them has had clear benefits. Of course some people do question the ethics of certain experiments, and others demand to know just how far we are prepared to go with scientific changes. Nevertheless, the benefits to both individuals and the whole of society outweight these concerns, but can’t outweight what the future could bring to us as a revenge for playing with nature.
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I don't think the ideology of "pride" or egos are the explanation for what you're pondering. "Survival of the fittest" explains why every living organism on the planet does what you've detailed in your post.
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No. Not solely both. The question is a false dichotomy with an intentionally limited number of theoretical causes, where anyone choosing only one or both of the choices given would have no induspitable idea why there was an earthquake that spawned a tsunami that killed 100s of thousands in south Asia. Or why vesuvius erupted and covered the people of Pompeii in deadly ash. Or why, if it existed, Atlantis sank. \n\nI hate to break this to some people, but the only difference between man and the rest of nature is our capacity to understand our potential impact, which does not by default prove that every other lifeform on Earth acts in the best interest of nature. We are nature. All that we have created stems from us, and from nature we were born. To separate us from nature and say that much of what we do is inherently against its design, is to create a distinction based solely on a projection of nature as infallible and perfect in its effort to create balance, even to correct itself, predicated on some concept, I suppose, of a Gaia of Eden, or somewhere, whom governs benevolently. For all anyone knows, no amount of prayer, no amount of better environmental stewardship can stop the occurence of some disasters. \n\nI do not oppose better environmental behavior. I generally agree with strict regulations to aid the environment. But I certainly think there are more theories of equal or greater rationality than the choices presented. Some of them might absolve human kind of blame for somethings. Should we not include the possibilities that we are human not only in the sense of being more responsible, but in the sense that there is a limit to what we can do and have done?