onlooker wrote:How well what you Ibon and Dohboi are discussing fits in with the theory of the "Tragedy of the Commons" which is defined as: The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action." So, the question still lingers can we ever act in the best interests of all together and particularly for the sake of the future and its generations? Only time will tell.
Yes... I am sticking here with Dohboi's point that we are collectively still adolescents. If you know well your child development, just think of any high school teenager, you understand that when a young adult first begins to question politics or life they usually fix really hard on an ideological position without any nuances and they become ardent in an almost humorous black and white position over issues. There are no shades of gray when you are an adolescent. Something is cool or lame. No in betweens.
Any form of self regulation of our population or consumption is viewed by ideologues on the right as inherently evil and put right away into the black box of communism for example. It is a very adolescent position. Ideologically fixed. No exceptions.
This is where I do believe one day external consequences will mature us. Natural events bend ideology and even your most ardent libertarian is not going to remain fixed in his liberty of the individual as sacrosanct above all else when we see the consequences of human overshoot tearing at the very fabric of our society which provides us the freedoms we enjoy.
I guess it does raise the question.
Is this extreme libertarian position in regards to our environment adolescent and subject to maturity through consequences
OR
Is this extreme libertarian position unyielding all the way down the slope of correction of our over population.
We really cannot be sure the answer to these questions...... there are questions at times that have no answers....... those annoying Buddhists like to raise those unanswerable questions... I really do think this is one of those.
Only time will tell.