Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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It is strange how we can get involved into the most minute details of any concern and being derailed all the way from what is really important in these concerns. Some time ago, my wife Sharon asked me on how to cope in dealing with some professional concerns and disappointed she said
And I responded
And therefore, I must say that quality of life is not economic growth but democracy. References on Amartya Sen Democracy as a Universal Value, http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/jod/10.3sen.html Third Way for the Third World, by Akash Kapur http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99dec/9912kapur.htm An interview with Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Development as Freedom, by Akash Kapur http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991215.htm A small Biography of Amartya Sen, http://www.qinfo.com/finance/amartya-sen-nobel.html |
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this morning, as I exchanged few e-mails with Timothy Shire, Editor
of Ensign, we covered few topics about our societal considerations
of having a cashless society, of changing our mental models, of
fighting poverty. And then all at once I realized that the strongest
social problem was poverty and as a consequence I recalled Nobel
Prize winner Amartya Sen saying that in no country where there was
an appreciation for democracy there has ever been a famine.