Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
> I don't believe in the theory of "freedom without responsibility" , and, besides, Mankind  ceased to be part of Nature when it ceased to be subject to natural selection. Once humans became domesticated, they were no longer part of the natural process.
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I don't believe in "forced responsibility" except insofar as one should 
not use force or fraud on another.  Other definitions of 
"responsibility" that includes the use of force to try to force other 
people to make mine or your choices will fail and be tyrannical.

Personally, I'm a libertarian and hold strongly that people should be 
able to control their person and resources as they see fit.  While I'm a 
fan of the Paleo diet and benefits to be gained therefrom (leveraged 
with modern technology, health care, etc), I'm not a fan of some 
hypothetical modern paleo ideal lifestyle with minimalist human presence 
on the planet.  I should add that I'm a transhumanists, I see man as 
taking control of their own evolution and leveraging technological 
innovations to maximize their own personal life, liberty, and happiness 
as well as life span.

Steve

> Geoff > Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:12:19 -0600> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Letter From New Scientist Magazine> To: [log in to unmask]> > Geoffrey Purcell wrote:> > Sorry, I should have made clear that I meant that reintroduction of species to an area where they were previously extinct was OK, but that introducing species such as rats etc. to areas they never were a natural part of the ecosystem thereof, was a bad idea. Of course, ideally, one should really just reduce human intervention in Nature to near-zero levels as that would allow a balance to eventually appear on its own, but that would require much harsher laws to make slaughterers of wildlife suffer decades of imprisonment, a considerable expansion of the size of National Parks to allow animals to migrate to other wild areas etc. > > > > Geoff > >> > > > I cannot say that I'm a fan of tyranny in any form. Man is a part of > nature just as much as beavers dam up water sources, bees modify trees > habitats, etc. The idea that man is somehow out of place on earth or > that he should not be allowed to modify his environment is ludicrous. > As to national parks, there should be none. Property should be owned by > individuals who can choose to manage their resources to best advantage. > Some will choose one way, some another, their choice. If someone or > some group doesn't like the way a piece of property is managed, they can > buy it themselves and change it's management. The idea of "Shoot a > meal, go to jail" is a form of tyranny that I find unacceptable.> > Steve> 
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