In my opinion, the general realization that policies justified by the dominant economic theory
destroy human community and degrade the natural environment should be enough to persuade people of good will that they should look in other directions.
Hence, they tend to advocate policies that support the behavior they call «rational» even though it erodes or
destroys human community.
However, I state and restate the obvious because we have collectively acquiesced in a system that is based on the opposite assumptions, one that endlessly
destroys human community and degrades the natural environment on the grounds that this increases total wealth.
Not exact matches
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communities traditionally associated with the word «anarchy», in a crypto - anarchy the government is not temporarily
destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary.
The application of a theory that places no value on
human community has
destroyed much.
In a statement last week, the Christian
communities accused the Nigerian Air Force of «clear
human rights abuses» amounting to «genocide» and of helping the Fulani herdsmen in killing,
destroying homes and displacing many from their homes.
Since
human beings need
community more urgently than they need fancy cars, economic systems should be designed or managed to support
community, not to
destroy it.
Indeed, this system
destroys both
human community and the natural environment.
Humans are distinctive in their capacity to create, sustain, transform — and
destroy —
community, both interpersonal and political: Violence, whatever else it does, categorically repudiates mutuality and equal participation in decisions affecting intimate and family relations.
The economy should serve
human community rather than
destroy.
From the standpoint of our interpretation of religion the central Christian experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power of
community - creating and
community -
destroying factors in
human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome of the battle between good and evil.
What is
destroyed in the loss of the ecosystem, therefore, is not only the intrinsic value of myriads of individuals making up the forest
community but also very important additional contributions of the forest to the intrinsic value of
human experiences.
Given this understanding of
human beings, the policies that have
destroyed so many
communities both in the United States and in the Third World, are entirely rational and moral.
It isn't about
human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian
community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not
destroyed with all that is evil.
Instead of
destroying all boundaries for the sake of one homogeneous global market, it calls for the subordination of economic activity to the building up of
human community, and
community with the natural environment as well.
For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the
human race instead of threatening to
destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and
community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting
human needs.
In The Banner Saga, you follow the parallel journeys of warmaster Hakon, a member of the horned giant race, the Varl, who are escorting a prince of men, and hunter Rook, a
human suddenly saddled with leading his
community to safety after their village is
destroyed by White Walkers - cum - Baby Colossi, the Dredge.
Even the oceans draw more concern than soil, especially when their warming temperatures help fuel massive storms and floods that kill
humans and
destroy communities.
Calthorpe is writing in America, where the word «urban» is thought of by many to connote «the American ghetto, crime ridden concrete jungle that simultaneously
destroys land,
community, and
human potential.»