At 10:59 AM 23/06/2014, Jim Birch wrote: >Where does the "right" to be forgotten fit into this picture? Reputation >is an important mechanism for maintaining cooperation. It can sound >unforgiving but requiring people to care for their reputations appears to >me to be something to not drop lightly. Indeed, the growing libertarian >world view where the individual has primacy, unencumbered by responsibility >back to society, seems to me to pose a basic threat to cooperative aka >civil society.
Thanks for that logical analysis, Jim. Do you do this sort of social analysis for a living? It read as if published. Anyway, the last paragraph exposes a sort of perverse irony. Because of the selfish libertarian perspective, major threats to civilisation are now in play, so we, as a species, may not have to worry about it much longer. Maybe we are a self-limiting species after all, like a virus that burns itself out by destroying the host, but with no where else to go. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com JL Whitaker "On A Life's Edge" - US Amazon print and digital http://www.amazon.com/On-Lifes-Edge-J-Whitaker/dp/1499787154/ Australia Amazon: ebook only http://www.amazon.com.au/Lifes-Edge-J-Whitaker-ebook/dp/B00KYW2YA8/ and other Kindle sites around the world. Available 13 June on Kindle Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link