~ I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. ~
~ Our moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other species in the spirit of husbandry rather than destroy them in and attitude of conquest. ~
~ Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry-rot of the modern world. ~
~ The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse. ~
~ Grub first, then ethics. ~
~ We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics. ~