Human Ordeals Thrive On Ignorance. To Understand

Thailand's Economic Development Was Driven By Educational Expansion. That Has Been A Very Dramatic Factor, And South Asia Had Been Pretty Miserable In Not Learning From That Experience.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.

To Say That Certainly America Was Very Lucky To Get A Large Amount Of Land, And The Native Indians Were Extremely Unlucky To Have White Men Coming Over Here, Is One Thing. But To Say That The Whole Of The American Prosperity Was Based On Exploiting The Indigenous Population Would Be A Great Mistake.

Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5 Percent, Almost Never More Than 10 Percent, Of The Population. The Largest Proportion Of A Population Affected Was The Irish Famine Of The 1840s, Which Came Close To 10 Percent Over A Number Of Years.

I Remain Instinctively Hostile To Communitarian Philosophy And Communitarian Politics.