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RWStanding
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Pragmatism

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Pragmatism
There is only one value that can save us and our natural world for posterity. Pragmatism.
Those who believe in an afterlife may believe their reward is beyond this world, but if they destroy this world there will be no future ‘souls’ be saved, for an unproved vanity.
Pragmatism has no values beyond itself, other than is involved in a more or less stable global society which may be vicious or otherwise. And if vicious then it must intrinsically be some form of tyranny. If it is not vicious then it must involve values that take it away from tyranny to either an Altruism of some sort, or to Anarchistic autonomy of some extent. Those latter values relate to the relationship between people, but more particularly between tangible communities which together form the world. If the world persists as a body of antagonistic communities comprising ‘tyrannies’, ‘altruism’, and individualistic autonomy; then the world itself is still in a state of chaos. As such the relationships between communities [states or nations] that wish to survive involves the ethic of chaos which may be imagined.
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