Between
the apathetic and defeatist view of Fatalism—
whereby people believe everything is determined
before it happens, and that nothing we can do
will make any difference—and the equally-erroneous
view that everything happens by Accident or
Chance, lies one based upon the Law of Cause-and-Effect.
The present has arisen out of past causes, and
the future arises from a combination of both
past and present causes, although when it arises,
of course, it will not be the future, but the
present.
The present
is open, and the future not fixed; we are in
the process of creating it. The Greenhouse Effect
is largely the result of human activity; the
rest of Nature cannot be blamed for that. Likewise,
the good things of our civilization have been
brought about by people; they did not just happen
by themselves.
So, though
there are reasons to be proud of being human,
we must also accept responsibility for our personal
and collective mistakes; there is nothing and
no-one else to blame. |
