no probs. As much as I can offer to this blog but a definitive resource on the subject for those that want to research. Good topic. It's very tricky to make ethical choices as Singer et al discuss.
Without proselytising, Singer and Mason navigate questions of cruelty, the environment, economics, culture and social justice. Tracing groceries of three families to their sources, they arrive at unexpected positions. Is it better to buy farmed fish to protect ocean stocks? Not if they're fed with fishmeal. Is locally grown the best choice? Not for reducing world poverty. Can ethical choices be convenient, carnivorous and cheap? Yes.
Mason and Singer are utilitarian realists. Mason is a lawyer, teacher and journalist. Singer, an expatriate Australian, is probably the world's most renowned ethicist, considered the godfather of the animal welfare and vegan movements.
and in Australia it makes no difference as the law will determine your relationship status in this country irregardles of romantic concepts such as 'marriage'.
Hopefully when I wake up he will still be there and have not done a 3am runner. 'how much longer do i have to cuddle her before i can leave????" So no txt please
I think so. Sorts the men out from the boys. I'd do nothing witout a contract. In australia its called a Binding Financial Agreement. There is no such thing as a pre nup here.
"Sometimes there is even difficulty in deciding when a de facto relationship ends. There are cases of husbands and wives “living apart” in the same house and this can occur in de facto relationships that are breaking down. The Court would want to know why you were living under the same roof, whether you were having meals together and whether you were carrying out household tasks for each other.
With all these matters to be considered, there is even the possibility of your thinking you are in a de facto relationship while your partner thinks you are not.
Time will tell how much difficulty the Courts will have in deciding when de facto relationships exist."
we have too many rules in this country! Better not. I like where the constitution keeps changing over there. Great for a laugh!
its a bummer here. I have a few wealthy friends here who have gotten caught out with this stuff as due to how the law is read...its really difficult to know if you are in a de facto relationship or not and its not as simple or obvious as you think
Therefore always have a binding finiancial agreement or things locked up in trusts;-)
Thanks all tho seriously with all the compliments I think my head is beginning to swell. Thank goodness for study. The more I learn the more I realise how silly I really am
but I do like to contempate eternal philosophic things and keep my mind open
Thanks guys. I think unrealistic expectations contribute to the problem. Doesn't mean I go round chanting 'its all dooooooooooooom' but I'm over the happiness movement ;-)
Link by the same author on the 'Happy Clappy' movement
Why wealth's worthless Date: 24/03/2012
The pursuit of happiness and material gain can be a major obstacle in living a good life. Hugh Mackay cuts to the good stuff for ANGELA THOMPSON. IF HUGH MACKAY IS AN ACADEMIC warrior - wielding a pen mightier than the sword - then the self-help book aisle is his battlefield.
Some of the scalps he sets out to claim belong to the glib and oft-deployed old warhorses like "forgive and forget" and the slightly irksome notion of setting off to find one's "self", as if it were a lost set of car keys.
The happiness movement, a social wave dominated by positive psychology and self-esteem worship - "a gold star for breathing" - is another one Mackay likes to challenge.
One of the social research pioneer's 13 books is rich in anti-happiness sentiment and he has explained several times - including today, at the University of Wollongong's Positive 2012 conference - in a talk entitled Why the Pursuit of Happiness Will Make you Miserable.
He wants to "shake until their teeth rattle" parents who say they just want happiness for their children, arguing they should also experience disappointment, failure, difficulties in the playground, how to deal with an inept teacher, boredom and pain.
"Surely if you want your child to become a fully formed human you want to teach your child not to avoid these things," says Mackay.
"We need to experience the dark stuff. Almost anyone will tell you you learn more through failure than success.
"I think the happiness movement and the self-esteem movement have really gotten out of hand. If we pursue happiness then I think we are at risk of avoiding the experiences that are really going to teach us about who we are and what it means to be human.
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RE: Heads Up People.
no probs. As much as I can offer to this blog but a definitive resource on the subject for those that want to research. Good topic. It's very tricky to make ethical choices as Singer et al discuss.