Comments on: Foto Friday – Down at the Dead Sea with Shmuel Browns http://israelity.com/2009/02/13/foto-friday-down-at-the-dead-sea-with-shmuel-browns/ Life beyond the conflict Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jan Zaremba http://israelity.com/2009/02/13/foto-friday-down-at-the-dead-sea-with-shmuel-browns/comment-page-1/#comment-283665 Jan Zaremba Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:55:34 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=8259#comment-283665 David-Joe has just labeled a view he doesn't like as"philosophical irrational", and the holders of such views a "enviro whackos" spouting "lunacy". Can anyone think of a more efficient way of making communication and dialogue impossible? Congratulation, Joe, you win the prize. Is Joe at all conscious of the fact that his existence depends on the cooperation of millions of sentient organisms (who have no rights)? Does he know that his fragile life depends on the functioning of complicated interconnected natural systems? No. Joe doesn't know this. What he does know is "self interest", a universal concept which is understood by termites (who don't have any rights—but then they don't have brains, either). But, there's hope. "Not abusing the resources" is the line that he draws in the sand. Good. Do we dare ask Joe where, exactly, that line is?? David-Joe has just labeled a view he doesn’t like as”philosophical irrational”, and the holders of such views a “enviro whackos” spouting “lunacy”.
Can anyone think of a more efficient way of making communication and dialogue impossible? Congratulation, Joe, you win the prize.

Is Joe at all conscious of the fact that his existence depends on the cooperation of millions of sentient organisms (who have no rights)?

Does he know that his fragile life depends on the functioning of complicated interconnected natural systems?

No. Joe doesn’t know this.
What he does know is “self interest”, a universal concept which is understood by termites (who don’t have any rights—but then they don’t have brains, either).

But, there’s hope. “Not abusing the resources” is the line that he draws in the sand.
Good.
Do we dare ask Joe where, exactly, that line is??

]]> By: David-Joe http://israelity.com/2009/02/13/foto-friday-down-at-the-dead-sea-with-shmuel-browns/comment-page-1/#comment-283660 David-Joe Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:59:52 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=8259#comment-283660 To claim that the Dead Sea is bing "killed off" is philosophically irrational. It is not human and therefore possesses no rights. Utilizing such language accepts the lunacy of the enviro whackos that place Man as an evil force destroying the Earth. It is proper for Man to act rationally in mining any resource to the end that self-interest makes looking after and using not abusing the resource makes sense. To claim that the Dead Sea is bing “killed off” is philosophically irrational. It is not human and therefore possesses no rights.

Utilizing such language accepts the lunacy of the enviro whackos that place Man as an evil force destroying the Earth.

It is proper for Man to act rationally in mining any resource to the end that self-interest makes looking after and using not abusing the resource makes sense.

]]> By: Michael Parkin http://israelity.com/2009/02/13/foto-friday-down-at-the-dead-sea-with-shmuel-browns/comment-page-1/#comment-283656 Michael Parkin Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:33:28 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=8259#comment-283656 Wonderful photo essay. Oddly enough we can find a visual beauty in even the most horrendous situations. Wonderful photo essay. Oddly enough we can find a visual beauty in even the most horrendous situations.

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