Wojtek on Greens

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Mon Jul 29 01:56:44 PDT 2002


It is a wicked sleight of hand to identify mankind's utilisation of natural processes with the enslavement of human beings. Nature has no preferences, nor personhood to suffer from being put to a better (read human) use. To say otherwise is mawkish sentimentality whose underlying meaning is that one hold's human life cheap.

Works of art don't have preferences or personhood either. Is it holding human life cheap to shoot someone to keep them from destroying the Nike of Samothrace, or blowing up the pyramids? (Not totally a rhetorical question.)

Chris Doss The Russia Journal



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