PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Credit Union, Distributive Justice, Genetically Modified Organism
31 Oct 2016
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In the long run, it might not be worth it. The nature is necessary for us, we need clean air and water etc. Nature is a good in itself (deep ecology) Any non renewable resource needs to be protected for business reasons. If you are a lumber mining or oil company, are example of resource are limited. Plant 100 * trees for every time you cut down. Business tends to seek short term solutions even if they threaten long term success. Golden rule of business: make as much money as possible; long term proposition. Genetics= manipulating the genes that make up the nature. Us case (1998) says you can patent any living thing except for a full growth human being in the us patent law. Nature is not anyone"s property. nature belongs to god. Slavery= when a human being becomes the property of another. Environment calls them frankensteins genetically modified organisms- gmos.
