“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.