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On the BBC today Sunday 5th. The Home Secretary and Interviewer got bogged down in the concept of Rights. When this country in reality at least pretends to be an Altruist Democracy. An altruist democracy is founded on Responsibilities. Its citizens have an absolute responsibility or duty to protest ...

Migration When politicians say they want to deport all immigrants who are here illegally. It is a statement of the obvious and fairly empty. The real question is whether the law is rational, in the first place, and then whether it benefits those who run and own the country. Or whether it benefits in...

There appears to be a presumption that the universe was 'created'. That there is therefore a 'creator'. That 'he' must be omnipotent. And so forth. That does rather limit what god must be, or rather indicates our limited imagination and biased views. Indeed, if 'god' is part of the totality of exist...

The idea that the population can be ever larger, providing it can be fed, is what I feared might be the outcome. Commerce can expand and even feed people artificially, with barely a limit. If that is how people see it then I am vastly pleased that I will not see the glorious future. As to health ser...

Do we answer this question merely in regards to the immediate war. Or do we answer it in a long historical perspective? Britain had the Palestine Mandate not an Israel Mandate, which did not exist before WW2. If Palestine had been recognised as a state in 1946 along with an area as Israel, with UN o...

Racism is a term that tends to mean whatever suits the user. If it is not defined as part of a holistic ethical-political philosophy it is just whimsy. Merely something to do with ethnicity and culture. As a part of a whole philosophy it can be used in three ways, taking logic to the extreme - which...

Property It is obvious that property in its many forms may be owned and controlled in a hundred and one ways, when these are defined in petty detail. But these will in fact be variations on a broad theme, in which the opposing absolutist forms are but three. In the clear nature of a tripartite divis...

Rights Democracy is not about Rights but more about Responsibility. All feasible values relate to Society in the negative or the positive, but certain values define a society in contrast to others. If our present world were not so obsessed about rights, perhaps Gaza and Ukraine – and other places – ...

The State It is impossible to to talk rationally about ethics, economics, politics – which is to say social ethics – other than on the fundamental basis of what form of society we believe in. That belief being partly rational or pragmatic and partly by sentiment. It is my conviction that any and all...

Slogans Slogans are in essence minimalist statements designed to rouse feelings. As such they are always potentially dangerous. Sensibly, they need to be divided into two categories, epitomised by Ban the Bomb, and Fighting for Freedom. The one concerns a material object while the other concerns a m...

Progress to the Past It is quite clear that our world today has progressed backwards to the 1930s, in ethical-political terms. Except that now we have the technology of annihialtion and also ultimate subjection to authoritarianism. We have two ideologies that are in fact in logical oppostion to demo...

Tripartite Society Law can be created by the state or simply as a social norm. There is a tripartite division in the extremes or ultimate forms of human society that are lawabiding. That in which people are serfs or slaves of the state, or its rulers: that in which people work for their own benefit ...

There are philosophers now who are at last questioning the simplistic division of 'politics' into Left and Right Wings - with a vague mixture between. But a discussion on radio indicates that all they are doing is comparing party policies and dissecting them into a medley or chaos of 'policies'. It ...

How will a person choose? According to how the world has made him. How will he change his mind? According to how the world inclusive of himself changes him. How will he do what is right? According to what pragmatically works to suit his preconceptions.

It is absurd to base a fundamental ethic or philosophy o what is 'good'. It is the ethic that defines what is 'good' or merely a choice of action .