The more I look at this, the more I am starting to agree with meredith.

C'mon MikeM, is capitalism ethical or not? What's with the "compared to what" malarkey? If the only reinforcement you can provide for the ethics of the system that underpins our economy and government is a series of guessing games, your 2,200+ contributions to ethics.org.au have been pretty much a waste of effort, have they not?

Admit it, your perception of ethics is of a perpetual debating society, with a do-gooder hat on. Or as meredith puts it, just another agenda.

A starving African villager will have a significantly different view of the ethics of GM food than a latte-sipping first-world townie. A peasant in the rainforests of South America will have a significantly different view of the ethics of the deforestation of the Amazon basin than a professor at ANU - subsistence agriculture is the second largest cause, by the way, after cattle-farming.

If I am religious, I will have the ethical agenda propounded by the leaders of my faith. And so on.

Thanks meredith.

no worries Pericles,

and may the best (not most social fad like) mans agenda win.