“If it’s true that only individual rights matter, then our descendants really don’t matter because they’re not individuals yet. This is what the West just has not been able to deal with. This is why the West pushes off to the future: environmental pollution, global warming, government deficits, the energy crisis, the global food shortage, the global water crisis, and so on. It’s taxation without representation across time. The truth is: we have not inherited this earth from our parents; we are borrowing it from our children. And we are leaving nothing left for them. The idea of individual rights is likely to be the fatal flaw of the West.” - M. Nagasawa (partial credits, P. Singer)
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