On 10/11/06, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.com> wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG stated for the record:
We have an obligation to living individuals to
show them a decent
level of human compassion.
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[[Social contract]]
To ignore our basic obligations to society would be unconscionable.
Fortunately: our fundamental principles, such as NPOV, align
reasonably well with our obligations to the greater world we live
within.
Were this not the case our efforts would have been predestined to
failure from the beginning. Man can tolerate many things including
things which disrespect man kind, but this tolerance is always finite.