It really bothers me that not doing anything wrong has become associated with not getting caught in America today. With all of the talk since the Clinton administration about America's "morals" it really bothers me that we've lost our moral center so badly that we've turned into a nation of Bart Simpsons. "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything."
Wrong… is STILL wrong. Regardless if anyone saw you doing it. It's still wrong. What the hell ever happened to doing right simply BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT?
I write this, because I saw a film clip the other day of Kathy Lee Gifford when she "discovered" (yeah… right…) that her branded line of clothes at K-mart was being manufactured by children in Chinese sweatshops for pennies a day. The nation was outraged… so she was sorry. Boo fucking hoo. It is my belief that she was NOT sorry that children were being enslaved to line her pockets…. I'm pretty sure that she KNEW about that and was okay with it. It is my belief that she is sorry that she GOT CAUGHT.
And now, think about us. Think about the buying American public. We were collectively outraged that Kathy Lee Gifford's clothes were being made by child slaves. How dare they. You can't buy Kathy Lee Gifford clothes anymore, because that wicked witch was profiting from the enslavement of children.
So why do we tolerate all of the other junk that's made by Chinese slave children? BECAUSE THE COMPANIES HAVEN'T GOTTEN CAUGHT. We willingly close our eyes to this so that we can have our cheap shit. Which means, as near as I can tell, that we are economically willing to smilingly slit our own throats en masse to insure that a few Americans remain very, very rich while the rest of us struggle to get paycheck to paycheck and live off the sweat of enslaved Chinese children.
Peace.
Rev. Randal
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I hear what you are saying, but the strong has never felt obligated to help the weak. It is that way in the competition of life and what consumerism really measures is how inhumane that human are being with one another.
Even in other organisms vectors on the biosphere, the strong does what it must to in order to insure its health, welfare and comfort. Some eat heartily due to a set of skill and circumstance. Others are born into it. Kind of like humans are born into circumstance and others have a skill set that allows for their advancement.
Now who is to say that it is unfair that one group was born into being preyed upon when there is something that they themselves will hunt for food? I know I am going around the way, but I don't know if this so-called 'humanity' exists. A quick study of the animal kindom makes the ideal that one should only take what they need is exactly that, an ideal.
I did nothing save for continue to breath after being born to earn my position in the genetic lottery. And that is what life is, a lottery. Even as a 'winner' there is still a social tree that my inability to climb has had its consequence.
It would be nice, pollyanna for people who aren't caught but are still wrong to suffer reprecussions for the 'blind crimes of ignorance or omission', but I don't think life works that way.
'clink, clink' that is my two cents!!
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