The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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Idea May Technique
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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Conservatism Ecology Heart
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Growth Population Taken
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists’ chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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Fire Lying Real Trouble
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Agriculture Discovery Real
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
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Atheism Morality States
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Call Population Rights

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