Food food thought...
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights.
We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights.
We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.
~John Trudell
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.it is arrogant and ignorant, even for a decent poet, to think that because the natural world has a right to exist, that human rights are arrogant and civil rights is ignorant. there doesn't have to be a trade-off. they're not mutually exclusive. so idon't think he will be my favorite poet any time soon.
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genessa
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Sep 15, 2018
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I am not sure what this really means.
Rocks have rights? It's a bit of a stretch.
We need to be respectful stewards of the natural world, would be a better way to put it, I think. For lack of a better term anyway. "Stewardship" implies being in care of something on behalf of an absentee landlord or owner, and as an unbeliever I think it's the wrong term in that sense. But it conveys the right idea: we care for something because we have the power to destroy it, and that's ultimately not in our rational self-interest.
It is not arrogant to advance human rights as a way for people to be reminded that they share the world with other humans; it is not ignorance to advance civil rights for people to be reminded that everyone deserves to be treated well. As for natural rights ... I don't think non-sentient things can have rights, but a respect for the beauty and wonder of nature and its limited resources that we rely on to sustain human and civil rights is certainly in order.
mordant
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Sep 14, 2018
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I agree. I think stewardship, in this case, means caring on the behalf of future generations so they will have something to care for.
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