buddhist
Well-Known Member
No, we don't know the same effects. You expect specific effects from certain choices. I might perhaps expect different or even opposite effects given the same choices. We should each choose to organize our individual circumstances accordingly. Future generations will do likewise.My question is, how will future generations, knowing that we knew what the effects might be, chose to respond to the obligations that our actions are imposing on them ... The future--including you and I perhaps, in the next few decades, but everyone's descendants in the decades coming after--do NOT get a voice in the choices made now, do not get to have justice done upon us, AFTER we have done what we've knowingly done. But, we get to freely impose consequences on the future; and that, to me, is immoral.
Are you saying it's a good thing that I should impose my future expectations, by compelling you and your behavior, through the hammer of government and law?
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