A wise girl knows her limits.
A great girl knows she has none.

This is quite hard. There's a lot of freedom in "anything", and that's what makes it difficult really. Ishmael has opened my eyes to a lot of things, and not only in Global Ethics, but in my other classes we're also discussing more about issues that are happening at present, whereas in my previous courses we focused more on "textbook material" and history which had little relevance to the dangers our world is facing at the moment. I like the way we're approaching this novel; we watch videos related to the subject, we discuss every chapter in a large group, and the previous exercises we did the first few weeks of school that prepared us for the book-- they were all very helpful.

The issues described in Ishmael are very philosophical and I would like to see them resolved, but the problem is that it's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be fast. We've come such a long way, and humans have spent ages living as Takers. It would be ideal for our environment if we returned to being Leavers like the rest of the community, but it's not very likely that we will, and having an idea about this is completely different from actually taking action. We're too comfortable with what we have right now, and humans aren't very good at adapting to new things. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic, but the fact that we don't know how to live the right way as a species might be what leads us to our own decline and ultimately extinction or the destruction of all life on our planet.