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11 lines
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Who we care about is limited - this always has been and will be true. This is a foundation of our lives and who we think of ourselves to be - what we care about and how we act from that care. It is deeply important to liberation because liberation is fundamentally about economy - specifically building liberatory economies that meet everyone’s basic needs.
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Moral circles - philosopher Peter Singer - the number and type of entities you give moral consideration - provides a model for
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The seventh generation
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The first thinking tool I mention is *seventh generation stewardship*, believed to come from the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.[^1] A phrase often attributed to the Great Peacemaker reads: “In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine.” Haudenosaunee faithkeeper Oren Lyons wrote, “We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come... What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?”
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The eleventh concern
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[^1]: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy or the Six Nations includes six Native American and First Nations peoples located in northeast America: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora; together they form the oldest extant democratic government in the world. |