Those who have good memories or who have been taking notes will recall the last on the list of five universal and innate value dimensions recently proposed by research is “disgust.”  There has been quite a bit of discussion about “the morality of disgust.” I’ve been rereading the third of Tim Barrus’ Eighties novels about AIDS, the one called “Genocide”...

“[I]t could be argued that the real moral and political challenge of ecology may lie in accepting that the world is not about to end, that human beings are likely to survive even if Western-style civilization does not. Only if we imagine that the planet has a future, after all, are we likely to take responsibility for it.” - Paul Corrigan Decades ago when...