When you wish you had a crys­tal ball, or not.

I lis­te­ned to this while wri­ting this post, try it while you read :o)

This post is the sixth of a series of fif­teen posts about free­dom during the COVID-19 cri­sis. These posts must be read in order, star­ting with the 6th post would make abso­lu­te­ly no sense to the rea­der. Enjoy rea­ding and above all, enjoy reflecting.

Let’s the­re­fore unders­tand here that the prin­ciple of fair­ness is the first edict of indi­vi­dual free­dom. There can be no indi­vi­dual free­dom if eve­ryone can­not enjoy the same level of free­dom. Now, the apple tree example is an example at a time t, but what about a non-rene­wable resource? The prin­ciple of indi­vi­dual free­dom is time­less. A gene­ra­tion can­not pro­tect its own free­dom at the expense of a future generation’s free­dom. That is why non-rene­wable ele­ments are so pro­ble­ma­tic. If they are not rene­wable, they should either be repla­ceable, at an equi­va­lent effort, or recy­clable, at an equi­va­lent effort.

For example, we couldn’t leave a pile of plas­tic for a future gene­ra­tion by saying that they will find a solu­tion at a lower cost than what it costs us to pro­cess the raw mate­rial. If this method does not exist, we must find it before using the raw mate­rial. The prin­ciple of sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty of social equi­ty is the second edict of indi­vi­dual free­dom. There can be no indi­vi­dual free­dom at a time t if it takes it away from a time t2.

To be conti­nued tomorrow…

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on May 14, 2020 by Coach Dan­ny