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radical choice

Practicing distracted navigation this vast virtual ocean that is the internet, I found a text of Peter Singer that has aroused considerable interest me. This is an excerpt from his book "Ethics live better" (by the year 1995 in its English edition), specifically Chapter 1 entitled: "radical choice" .

reproduce here part of this text:

(...) Most of the choices we make in our daily lives are restricted, in the sense that they are made from within a framework or set of values. Because I want to stay reasonably fit, I choose to go for a walk rather than stay lying on the couch with a beer and watching television. Since you want to do something to help the conservation of tropical forests, joins an organization dedicated to raising public awareness about the ongoing destruction of forests. Another person wants to make a well-paid and interesting career, so he studied law. In each of these elections, fundamental values \u200b\u200bare taken for granted and the choice is to find the best means to achieve them.

In contrast, the radical choices are those fundamental values \u200b\u200bthat are at stake. Since we do not choose within a framework that assumes that only seek to maximize our interests, or within a framework that assumes that what we consider ethically better. On the contrary, what we do is to choose between possible forms of life: one in which self-interest comes first, or one in which ethics is the most important, or perhaps opt for a compromise between both.

consider ethics and self-interest as two antagonistic approaches because, in my view, are the strongest contenders .(...)"

I think more often than we think (in fact think as they do because it reassures us) we might call radical choices. And is that almost anything we do has connotations affecting everything, since at this point is very clear that everything is interrelated.

When we choose for example to drive to work (often at a distance we could do on foot or by bicycle, or taking a public transportation), we are opting to maintain a level of consumption and occupation of space that we destroyed little by little our habitat.

When we choose to go shopping at a supermarket rather than a small store in our neighborhood, when we choose to purchase lower-priced products without caring or being moved by the way they have been produced or imported , when we choose to buy items or services that are produced by processes known contaminants, when buying products instead of disposable reusable equivalents (of course, with a slight effort on our part) because it is more convenient and because we can afford it, or when we put our savings bank assures us a bit more interest, no matter how dark they carry out transactions with our money when we choose to do each one of those things, we are choosing to maintain the status-quo, the current system of production, destruction and consumption.

better not pretend not to know.

I'm not saying we should be looking at the ground so as not to destroy our tread the life of any ant. I'm not as purist. But I say we must think of the connotations and implications of what we choose to do.

In another vein, and this is what I wanted to reach, is rapidly approaching when we will have to make another one (this itself very clearly) radical choice. Will be to choose the policy that we want to govern our city over the next four years.

I give pause to those who think this election hardly matters. Because although many like to think and shout from the rooftops that "all are equal" is far less certain. Because in relation to politicians: there are terrible, there are very bad, there are bad and less bad, and there are good or very good. Now I could not fail to remember the famous phrase Bertold Brecht on essential.

is not the same as during the next four years we rule in Cordoba Mr. Rafael Gomez, aka Sandokan, which would be terrible, or we govern the PP, PSOE and IU, which would be very bad, bad, or less bad. No, not the same.

And because he is not himself who governs, a group of people, with growing enthusiasm and great spirit, we intend to start changing things from the city of Cordoba.

I'm talking about, as the have guessed most of ECOLO CORDOBA.

ECOLO
Because we believe:

• in the greening of the economy.
• the sustainable transformation of the territory.
• on social equity and rights to tod @ s.
• in Participation, Transparency and Ethics.

enlazaré here shortly the Electoral progrm that Ecolo Córdoba assembly approved on 12 March.

Sorry that the blog appears to have been politicized (do not do politics so long, really?), But I had to choose between what they do or not do, and what I've done.