Avainsana: ethics
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Dangerous oligarchs and multinationals – why is Elon Musk one of the most dangerous people in the world?
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, many entrepreneurs who were successful in the two-system phase of the 80s, those in a significant position in the party, etc., bought state-owned companies cheaply when they were privatized. In a few years, they became super-rich multi-millionaires who also had a lot of political power. Putin…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…
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The end of machine world, postmodern bubbles and unity from diversity
The end of the machine world, postmodern bubbles and unity from diversity From about 1880 to 1945 we can talk about the modern era. In this way, technology, science and society changed and developed in many ways: electricity, telegraph, radio, car, airplane, etc. The world became smaller through technology (transportation and communication), the picture of…
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Path dependency, scenarios, change, sustainable development and wisdom
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated: ”Everything flows (changes). Nothing stays in place. — We both step and do not step into the same rivers, we are and we are not.” Everything in the world is under constant change, either fast or very slow. The continental plates move a few millimeters or centimeters a year.…
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Civilization and enlightenment – humanity’s path from darkness to light
The year 1995 is not far away in history. In Finland, we listened to the Spice Girls, 2Pac and Oasis. Children played with Tamagotchi and Play Station. Windows -95 had appeared. The Soviet Union had fallen and Finland had joined the EU. Today’s young adults lived their childhood. However, a bloody war was going on…
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The cruel reality of meat production – there is no such thing as a happy chicken or a climate-friendly pig
The biggest environmental act you can do is to become a vegetarian, preferably a Vegan. Did you know that more than 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production? This is more than all the traffic in the world combined. A kilo of beef has up to 50 times more climate emissions than…
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Elysium – A Good Earth in the Year 2122
I present a thesis: the world’s problems are caused by relationships. Ecological problems, i.e. environmental problems, arise from the fact that man’s relationship with nature is broken, and social, i.e. societal problems, such as wars and poverty, from the fact that man’s relationship with other people is broken. In the Bible, the relationship between God…
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The roots of capitalism and fair economics – in fair play everybody wins
Bhopal, India On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide’s insecticide factory, owned by the US giant Dow Chemicals, releases huge amounts of toxic methylisocyanate into the air and water bodies in a short period of time. 3,500 people die from terrible poisoning symptoms, tens of thousands are injured, and later another 50,000 locals die from diseases…
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