Ecology and Humanism

Author: Dr. James R. Castle

As they are made known to the world the great natural beauty and the protection given to nature in Costa Rica, its citizens own human viciously lash out and abuse a helpless puma kick and help take it to death. Sana, who is undoubtedly the anti-value that permeates every day and moves more into Costa Rican society, where the mob has taken control of the life and destiny of the country. This, like other facts, are signs of degradation in the quality of life when he must have evolved in the opposite direction, towards excellence.

The Church, which has been the representative of God in the world, he prefers not to notice that the mistreatment of animals and nature is an affront against God. If it were channeled in his preaching to his flock has a commitment to fraternal Creation. Abuse and death of animal in question may not have occurred and the attitude of man towards nature would not be so destructive that the principles of tenderness, solidarity and responsibility would be in effect.

On the other hand, the field of ethics and values has been replaced by people crowded regulations deriving from the tangle of decrees and laws, often upstart. The reference is legal or illegal, with respect to the personal, social or environment, but not the dynamics of the values arising from a state of consciousness that focuses on respect, beauty, harmony and the well where legal right and are implicit, but are overtaken by the personal desire to contribute has to make this a better world. These regulations dotted with sentimentality and moods have given shape to a moral circumstantial, accommodating and egoist, where some negative values are present and are tolerated. Populism where the riffraff abound, and unfortunately today is the substrate that influences our society is governed by this system.

It seems that people with ideas and principles altruistic and good, have left populism contaminate and affect their own lives and civility. Dancing the dissonance is that the mob wants to sound. It seems that confused and afraid to deviate from the known cling to ideas, prejudices and ways of life, hiding behind excuses lined morality, wisdom and sanity to hide their cowardice and lack of commitment to the highest values society, country and Creation. The ability to revitalize the life of the nation is lost. So we can never reconsider our values in relation to ourselves and to respect other creatures and the natural world where we live together with these lands.

Surely continue to issue regulations of all kinds, from the shelter of the institutions, to try to curb the irresponsible and the fury with which human bodies move in every way, but always with the fear that such disclosure, for all that does not like mass could be considered an affront to democratic freedoms and paralyzes the most painted of public officials. Mechanism and permissive attitude and cowardly, while convenient exit rather than face the mob, under what dignifies to humans and facilitates its evolution towards a more fulfilling life in communion with nature. There is no democracy without human livelihoods.

This state of affairs is also reflected in education, which can transfer a lot of intellectual knowledge to learners, but where those who do not have liberal education resulting in a citizen who fits the above populism.

That mob confusing legalities human values and has no ethical guidance and no transcendental destiny has destroyed a beautiful work of God in the form of Puma. It is not legal crime to kill a defenseless animal, not a mortal sin to kill a defenseless animal. Neither the State nor the Church recognize the dignity and right to life from an animal.

Ethics and human values are universal and transcend the boundaries of the human being, it is an anthropocentric, for his own good and dignity must be also of all forms of life present at the Creation.