Call me a misanthrope, but there isn’t one ethics that is universally valid. The Golden Rule, in all its forms, has proven time and time again to be problematic. Even the principles laid down by Kant are tenuously justified, as he puts the cart before the horses at the earliest stages of his Groundworks in order to give […]
Author: A.C. Stark
A.C. Stark is a campaigner, teacher and writer based in West Sussex, England. Passionate about nature, when he is not writing he can usually be found tinkering in his garden, working on an up-cycle project or birding.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome: The problem that what a generation perceives as the norm is determined by what they witnessed during their formative years; And that generation after generation we tend to think that only a little damage is being done to our ecosystems (and thus care only a little), when in actual fact the damage is […]
