WHEN FOOLS RUSH IN or BREAD & MARMALADE
(you decide)
I often tell people I know to always step back for a second from whatever they're doing to really know what they're doing. But, impatience is a natural state for human beings. Even little ol me blogging this off ain't spared from scrutiny. However, we can appropriate ourselves from this state into a more manageable and tolerable situation.
What we should never allow ourselves to be, is impulsive.
It's a common problem though. And often the fine lines between morals and survival are challenged. Yet, how do we actually define morality or even survival? Does the same principles apply when it comes to basic issues of bread & butter? Who or what do we blame when everything morally correct has been done and still we can't put food on the table? Is it even relevant to question morality then?
What? You never lied so that you can get that last piece of pie on the table? If your answer to the last question is yes, then I believe you're on the wrong planet dude!
Perhaps...you could lie just once...or twice even. It's not like you're actually commiting murder or anything. Lie this once and you'll get that bread on the table. Lie twice and hopefully this time it'll be enough to have some of that wonderful marmalade to go with the bread.
It doesn't matter if the bread & the marmalade was already on another person's table. They can go and look for more. And it goes on. And it's easy. Next time it'll be even more easier.
So you eat and another goes hungry. And you feel it's ok. I think? You should be in another planet anyway! (hopefully with vast desert and iron bars to keep you where you are.)
(you decide)
I often tell people I know to always step back for a second from whatever they're doing to really know what they're doing. But, impatience is a natural state for human beings. Even little ol me blogging this off ain't spared from scrutiny. However, we can appropriate ourselves from this state into a more manageable and tolerable situation.
What we should never allow ourselves to be, is impulsive.
It's a common problem though. And often the fine lines between morals and survival are challenged. Yet, how do we actually define morality or even survival? Does the same principles apply when it comes to basic issues of bread & butter? Who or what do we blame when everything morally correct has been done and still we can't put food on the table? Is it even relevant to question morality then?
What? You never lied so that you can get that last piece of pie on the table? If your answer to the last question is yes, then I believe you're on the wrong planet dude!
Perhaps...you could lie just once...or twice even. It's not like you're actually commiting murder or anything. Lie this once and you'll get that bread on the table. Lie twice and hopefully this time it'll be enough to have some of that wonderful marmalade to go with the bread.
It doesn't matter if the bread & the marmalade was already on another person's table. They can go and look for more. And it goes on. And it's easy. Next time it'll be even more easier.
So you eat and another goes hungry. And you feel it's ok. I think? You should be in another planet anyway! (hopefully with vast desert and iron bars to keep you where you are.)
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