Greetings, Karpal
Thank you for carrying on the dialogue.
You brought an ironic smile to my face when you told me to go out and get involved in a protest. I spent much of my teen-age years, in my twenties, and early thirties doing just that!
Yours truly here was active with the War Resisters League, and with The American Friends Service Committee. As a Conscientious Objector to War, I did time in a federal detention facility. Then, I was very active in The Civil Rights Movement. I sat-in at lunch counters; opened up public swimming pools; helped remove the bar behind which people of color were expected to sit in movie-houses …in St. Louis and in Washington, D.C. I, along with a culturally-mixed group of youths, volunteered to paint rooms in apartments of poverty-stricken families.
As you can tell, this future professor of moral philosophy was quite an activist. …Did plenty of mediating between bigots and people of color. It worked out pretty well in gaining voting rights, but there’s still a l o n g way to go!!
These days, as President of the Board of Directors of a Condo Association, I often mediate disputes. I assume – for no pay - responsibility.
How about you, Karpal?
You’ve come to know some of my core values: I believe that (conscious) human life is valuable. ) I believe in Democracy rather than oligarchy, kleptocracy, or authoritarianism. I believe in sharing, and exchanging favors. I recommend cooperation to achieve some noble aim. I believe in maintaining a serene and peaceful attitude, all the while struggling to make the world better. Can we agree on any values? Do we share any common ground?
That last part is true. In missionary circles they say they are out “to convert the heathens.” I am not out to do that
If only you had read further, you would have come upon the sections of text where I explain how Ethics will make its impact on the world, and will gain prestige, and its ideas may spread. I talk about Ethical technologies, and explain what they are. The theory recommends improved design, and technical upgrades, in both physical and social inventions: improved methods of education and of therapy, for example. Those new methods would incorporate some concepts of scientific Ethics. {Most people don’t know the math of Circuit Theory, nor the physics of electron transmission, but they know how to snap on a light-switch. That is how science has its impact. The engineers devise technologies that make people’s life more comfortable. So they have a respect for science.