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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by silverquiet on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:35PM (#41040056)
I'm curious how you would prove it? The biggest indictment of humanity to me is our destruction of the biosphere for future generations (and at the rate we're going, a few current generations as well).

Is it that or something else?

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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:37PM (#41040079)
I can enumerate the long list of policy that treats youth as a resource to extract from vs supporting and enabling their success. Is that what you had in mind for this?
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Re:No One Expects Young Men to Do Anything and They Respond ... by silverquiet on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:44PM (#41040139)
No need to enumerate the list; I can imagine rather a lot of it, and it probably isn't limited to youth, but they're usually the least able to deal with those who would extract from them.

But I still think the largest indictment of humanity is our failure to care for our home. Buckminster Fuller gave us the idea of "Starship Earth"; that we are all the crew of a spaceship that winds through the galaxy and we must all cooperate to maintain it for those that come after. It seems almost certain now that we will not make it.

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