Reply to John
Okay, John, I'm beginning to get the picture and it all sounds fine in terms of
describing a course of action. Even your suggestions as to what we might consider as
morally considerable might have great practical import. However, I'm still unconvinced
that ascribing morally considerability (sic) is enough to legitimize the status.
It is beginning to sound as if you wish to ascribe interests to systems, and I'm
beginning to think that is what a holistic moral philosophy intends. If I'm correct,
then, leaving aside any practical advantage to those entities who clearly have
interests, we must ask if systems can in any way have interests.
I can understand easily the advantage to thinking in terms of the biome. I still have
difficulty in getting my head around the notion of "the welfare and continuance of the
biome."
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Ian
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