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- This film explores a theory that has shaped international and military law for hundreds of years and examines whether the current war in Afghanistan, which has gone on for nearly as long as both world wars combined, is a 'just war'. A film described by General Lord Guthrie, Former Head of the British Army as "a skillful, timely and succinct exposition of the challenges faced by those who have the terrible responsibility of engaging in a war and how those who are engaged should behave".
- Today's ethical traditions know how to deal with genocide but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with geocide and ecocide. Christian fundamentalists however believe that the environmental cataclysms we currently face are of no concern and are merely signs that the "Rapture and the End Time" are close at hand.
- While European missionaries, mapmakers and mercenaries believed the Natural World existed entirely for human gain, the indigenous Indians of the Americas experienced nature as a sacred web of interdependent phenomena; Chief Seattle, of the Suquamish Tribe describing his world view thus: "Every bird, every humming insect, every sandy shore and very shining pine needle is sacred and holy to my people. All things are connected. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. This we know".
- In ancient times the dangers of abortion for women were compared with the dangers of war for men... and little changed for thousands of years. This ground breaking film explores the legal and ethical attitudes through the ages that have shaped attitudes today highlighting key ideas such as Animation, Ensoulment, Quickening and The Born Alive Rule.