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#humandignity

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udo m. rader ☕ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🐧

In the #NearEast, the drums of war drown out all humanity, and the civilian population seems, as usual, to be completely irrelevant.

Here and there, human dignity is crushed between warmongering males who act out their violent fantasies and hatred without regard for the consequences.

"... either war is insanity, or the people, if they do this insanity, aren't not at all reasonable creatures, as some might, for some reason, think." - Leo Tolstoy

#Israel#Iran#Peace
joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via #Newsweek @ 5:41pm ET on May 12, 2025

#Pope #LeoXIV has urged for "responsibility & discernment" over the use of #ArtificialIntelligence (A.I.) during his 1st press briefing w/ the #media since being elected as the head of the #RomanCatholic Church

Leo acknowledged that #AI has "immense potential" for the good of #humanity, but echoed his predecessor, Pope #Francis, as he warned it could also pose "new challenges for the defense of #HumanDignity, #justice & #labor"

newsweek.com/pope-leo-issues-w

Newsweek · Pope Leo XIV Issues Warning on AIBy Anna Skinner
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Aaron

I'm sure I've missed some other good points in this thread. (Feel free to add them!)

The main point is: WE ARE DOING CAPITALISM WRONG.

EDIT: I'm getting pushback on this point, so I'd like to clarify. I'm using "capitalism" as it is used in the typical 'Murican vocabulary. Please substitute "free market economy" if you know the difference between the two. I am 100% against extraction of wealth as passive income for wealthy people who contribute nothing. But if I say I'm against capitalism here in the US, people will assume I actually mean freedom and that I'm a dirty soviet.

#Coops
#Cooperatives
#Capitalism
#Socialism
#FreeMarket
#HumanDignity
#BestOfBothWorlds

Carolannie

“Each time I pick something. Beans. Apples. Chard. Garlic. Anything that grows is a miracle in its way. Or a mystery, perhaps.” “Plant genetics,” said Bruce. Jimmy shook his head. “Oh yes, plant genetics. But if you look at plant genetics, you’re only taking it back one level. And then can’t you find yourself saying exactly the same thing? Saying that it’s a miracle?” “I don’t know if that helps,” said Bruce. “Perhaps not,” said Jimmy. “But that’s what I still think. I look up at night – on a clear night – and I see stars that go on and on. And I think of how we’re a tiny, insignificant little dot in a universe that’s only one of millions of universes. And then I look down at the earth we stand upon and think how small it is, and how…how beautiful. And I think: how can we possibly be fighting one another, when we’re just so small and insignificant, and I can find no answer to that, and so I come back here and plant things and make them grow because…because that’s what you have to do if you don’t know any of the answers to the big questions.” He paused. “You ever read Albert Camus? He said something like that, you know. He put it better than I do, of course…” Jimmy laughed. “But then he was French, you see.” He paused again. “Il faut cultiver son jardin.” He looked at Bruce. “Of course, that was Voltaire.” Then he stopped, and looked at Bruce with sudden concern. “You’re crying.” Bruce wiped at his eyes. “I’m sorry.” “It’s onions that make you cry, you know, not garlic.” “I know. I know.”

Alexander McCall Smith, The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street Series)

#Gardening#MiracleOfLife#HumanDignity
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