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Originally Posted by Cantando  It will be interesting to see how it pans out. I wonder where we will draw the line between what is ‘wasteful’ and what is ‘not needful’, for example, with regard to the leisure industry - the vast amounts of energy required to run theme parks, cinema complexes, shopping malls, etc. Could we see an abstemious, puritanical attitude prevailing? |
I am a big believer in that, more or less... if you are not happy, you cannot hope to make other people happy. While i cannot truthfully say that this is true or false, i think it is quite reasonable. While it is admirable, I don't think pure altruism is necessary to lead a "good" life. Besides, if someone cares about others, they
deserve to enjoy themselves sometimes. Neh?
I think this is just a case of the golden mean; virtue. We shouldn't live our lives so frugally that we do not enjoy ourselves, just so future generations can have all the fun! However, we should be careful not to "over-do it," and have so much fun that we screw the prospect of being able to at least maintain our current state of "civilization." Really, we should be working on improving our civilization (in this case, energy producation), which we are. It's hard to say if we're doing enough or not though. That is really the arguement.
Oh well, that's my two cents.
