Comments on: Radical Thinking http://www.dissentdecree.net/2009/11/14/radical-thinking/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:49:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: shoreacres http://www.dissentdecree.net/2009/11/14/radical-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-648 shoreacres Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:44:28 +0000 http://www.dissentdecree.net/?p=920#comment-648 I've been a little gloomy recently, but I believe you beat me on the gloom-o-meter with your statement that "If, in the end, (compassion and love) fail, humans deserve extinction." I can't accept that, if only because of the weight of your own argument - 99.9% of the world might be loving and compassionate, but if the other 1% happen to be those who are playing happily with all that science put into the hands of politicians - love and compassion may not matter a whit. More realistically, if compassion, love, mutual understanding and respect fail, we may be doomed to extinction, whether we deserve it or not. There's little question the America I knew and loved is on the brink of extinction, and no one in our leadership - on either side of the aisle - seems to care. Whether Americans themselves (ourselves) can pull us back from the brink remains to be seen. I’ve been a little gloomy recently, but I believe you beat me on the gloom-o-meter with your statement that “If, in the end, (compassion and love) fail, humans deserve extinction.”

I can’t accept that, if only because of the weight of your own argument – 99.9% of the world might be loving and compassionate, but if the other 1% happen to be those who are playing happily with all that science put into the hands of politicians – love and compassion may not matter a whit.

More realistically, if compassion, love, mutual understanding and respect fail, we may be doomed to extinction, whether we deserve it or not. There’s little question the America I knew and loved is on the brink of extinction, and no one in our leadership – on either side of the aisle – seems to care. Whether Americans themselves (ourselves) can pull us back from the brink remains to be seen.

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