If you don't have a full belly, what's the right answer then?
Is it OK for people to advocate for the interests of groups that are larger than the individual but smaller than the human species -- like a family, neighborhood, city, nation, religion, race, or sex?
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Yes. It's not even close. BUT advocacy for smaller groups is good and ethical only within margins of the limits of our knowledge and the consequences of the advocacy. If survival of the 'species' may be at stake, 'human' civilization living on to fill the universe is everything.
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Good point that has deeply radical implications....
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It's more OK if it's an honest 'growing-the-pie' kind of advocacy rather than within a zero-sum kind of situation where more for my group necessarily means less for someone else's.
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Seems like group advocacy would be _especially _important in zero sum situations, no?
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So Balkanization now?
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Some might call it 'freedom of association', not balkanization
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Each of the subgroups should get its own question.
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Is there a principled reason why?
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