<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0fc9a747-0497-42cf-be60-04f67e697a75/81C5204E-F315-4868-B5A2-7AB3EC1E37FF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html" href="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">humanknowledge.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><B>Ethics</B>: the study of how individual persons should affect other persons and other beings. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html">Ethics consists in identifying the rights that each kind of entity has. A <A name="right"></A><B>right</B> is an entitlement of a <A href="#being">being</A> that <A href="#person">persons</A> will or will not affect it in a specified way. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><FONT color="#0000ff">Extropian Ethics</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><FONT color="#0000ff">A <A name="being"></A><B>being</B> is any entity possessing <A href="#life">life</A>, <A href="#sentience">sentience</A>, or <A href="#intelligence">intelligent</A> <A href="#volition">volition</A>, and are the only entities that have <A href="#right">rights</A>. There are two classes of beings: persons and organisms. A <A name="person"></A><B>person</B> is any <A href="#intelligence">intelligent</A> <A href="#being">being</A> with significant <A href="#volition">volitional</A> control over how it affects other beings.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff">All persons have the right to life and <A href="#liberty">liberty</A>.</FONT></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff">All beings have the right not to suffer <A href="#torture">torture</A> or extinction.</FONT></FONT></LI> </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><FONT color="#0000ff">Thus persons are obligated to minimize the incidence of</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff">deaths of persons;</FONT></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff">extinctions of species;</FONT></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff"><A href="#aggression">aggression</A>; and</FONT></FONT></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT color="#0000ff"><A href="#torture">torture</A>.</FONT></FONT></LI> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/81C5204E-F315-4868-B5A2-7AB3EC1E37FF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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