PanixerseeLagdaPigniubovenAndiast26-09-2025djb Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 18, 2026 CategoriesBioethicsEthicsLegal Science (jurisprudence) Tagged , activists, automobiles, Aztecs, beauty, business, copper, Ecuador, emancipation, environmental regulations, fish, flourishing, government, hares, health, human sacrifice, ideologues, indigenous people, Jan van de Venis, judges, language, lawyers, life, lithium, litigation, Māori, modern life, nature, nature rights, New Zealand, Panama, permit requirements, The Water Diplomat, Whanganui River, zoning Using Mild Language to Push Radical Nature Rights Wesley J. Smith August 18, 2026 Bioethics, Ethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence) 6 Nature rights activists seem nice. They are not verbal bomb throwers. Rather, they deploy passive language. Read More ›
DelleboersterheidenatuurgebiedvanhetItFryskeGea05-0 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 17, 2026 CategoriesEthicsHuman ExceptionalismLife Sciences Tagged , ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality Wesley J. Smith March 17, 2026 Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences 5 We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›