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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6354235" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>And this is where it all gets ... tricky. I have no good answers to these questions, and have thought about some of the very same questions. Arguably, genocide was committed against American Indians centuries ago. Am I morally obligated to remedy this? If people are enslaved by economic policies, am I obliged to act outside of the economy? There is no way that I can see to do this, except to become a hermit (ala the Unibomber), not, it seems, a feasible action.</p><p></p><p>A rule of thumb a friend once gave me was "Think Globally, Act Locally". We are too enmeshed, too interdependent, to restructure the world alone and quickly. Change proceeds across decades and centuries. But, we are able to effect local changes, and add our voice and actions to make small differences that can and do add up.</p><p></p><p>I've read a lot of Orson Scott Card (whose work I increasingly find less appealing than I once did); the same for Harlan Ellison, whom I once had a high opinion of, but have found to have less as I learn more, both generally, and about Ellison.</p><p></p><p>I find curious (as observed for myself) that as I learn more about authors and artists, I also find their work less appealing, not quite because of what I have learned about the artist, but because of everything else I learned over time. That is to say, there may be less of an issue here than there seems to be, as a result of one realizing the limited quality of a material, which one did not previously realize. Then, I haven't had to learn much about Card to change my opinion of his work; my opinion changed on its own for other reasons.</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p></p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6354235, member: 13107"] And this is where it all gets ... tricky. I have no good answers to these questions, and have thought about some of the very same questions. Arguably, genocide was committed against American Indians centuries ago. Am I morally obligated to remedy this? If people are enslaved by economic policies, am I obliged to act outside of the economy? There is no way that I can see to do this, except to become a hermit (ala the Unibomber), not, it seems, a feasible action. A rule of thumb a friend once gave me was "Think Globally, Act Locally". We are too enmeshed, too interdependent, to restructure the world alone and quickly. Change proceeds across decades and centuries. But, we are able to effect local changes, and add our voice and actions to make small differences that can and do add up. I've read a lot of Orson Scott Card (whose work I increasingly find less appealing than I once did); the same for Harlan Ellison, whom I once had a high opinion of, but have found to have less as I learn more, both generally, and about Ellison. I find curious (as observed for myself) that as I learn more about authors and artists, I also find their work less appealing, not quite because of what I have learned about the artist, but because of everything else I learned over time. That is to say, there may be less of an issue here than there seems to be, as a result of one realizing the limited quality of a material, which one did not previously realize. Then, I haven't had to learn much about Card to change my opinion of his work; my opinion changed on its own for other reasons. Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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