No plough stops for the dying man.
From http://albertis-window.com/2011/04/bruegels-dead-men/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75Roe_davA
In “Perpetual Peace,” Kant envisioned a “federation of free states” that would fall well short of an international Leviathan. It would be a gradually expanding club of liberal republics rather than a global megagovernment, and it would rely on the soft power of moral legitimacy…
No man is an island entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europeis the less, as well as if a promontory were, aswell as any manner of thy friends or of thineown were; any man’s death diminishes me,because I am involved…
Meaningful human lives … involve being moral, having true friends, and having opportunities to express our talents, to find meaningful work, to create and live among beautiful things, and to live cooperatively in social environments where we trust each other. If we have all these things, then…
Thankfully if we engineer biohappiness, the meaning of life can take care of itself.
David Pearce
From https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedonistic.imperative/permalink/10153314487021965/?comment_id=10153314487451965&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D
