Thoughted

Yes yes I know the topic has been covered before on this site! BUT BUT BUT I just read an article that made me rethink the whole issue…

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After a little incident involving a failed handbrake and my car smashing into a Saab, I have once again been considering the merit and comfort factor in being a rich bastard.

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I was just talking with my best friend around all the concepts that we create and abide by. I found it interesting to hear his thoughts on the subject and it got me thinking a little about all of societies implications. Read the rest of this entry »

Some things I have been doing/not doing have forced me to rethink the way I think of morals and ethics. Why do we do the things we think are right? Recently I am feeling more and more that we do the right things out of fear - fear of being caught out, or something punitive, fear of the truth about who we are, fear of embarresment etc.

There are surprisingly few things that I do naturally for the sake of doing something right! This might be something I need to improve on…

These thoughts lead me into a conversation that bore the fruits of surveying something ethical. Would I want other people to do what I have/have not been doing? Would I teach my kids these practices? What is the worst outcome of doing/not doing what I am doing?  After asking myself a series of questions pertaining to the questionable ethical dilemma I found the answer was simple, although I did not like it.

If you dig even deeper you MAY come to the conclusions that the reason behind this ethical dilemma is rooted in issues like greed, desire, and even shame and despair. This further ads to the ease of the forth coming decisions… We can all make excuses for our actions - mine was that I do not do something just because it is a law, that I need some ethical reasoning for it. But the truth will always be known/found and this is where the real us emerges.

A recent news article brought to my attention a deficiency in the justice system. I have long sat on the preverbial fence of the capital punishment debate. While knowing it is not correct and almost a backward way to set an example for the community and public, I also have a feeling that if someone were to wrong a loved one the way pedofiles, rapists, murders and other monsters of society do, I may not be able to control my own actions… I recognise this is a contradiction in my thought but am still left wanting when it comes to judgement time.

However, when a man recieves jail time for molesting youth for OVER 50 YEARS, and will obviously die in prison after serving a short time of his sentence, has justice really been served?

The hundreds of people whose lives he ruined will be in an abstract prison for the rest of their life, unable to retract the crimes done against them, while in my opinion, the criminal has got off lightly only really encurring a possible natural death.

What do you think about capital punishment? What is worse - dying in prison or being put to death?

This is a question that I have studied in the past and it came up in conversation recently which got me thinking about it all over again… What exactly defines charity?

A dictionary definition would be something along the lines of ‘generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless’… But does that mean if you give something to people who are neither poor, ill or helpless you are not engaging in a charitable act?

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Ever since I was a kid I have pertained to the theory that everything in a persons life reaches a balance as long as that person has a clear and rational perspective on life. If you have one bad thing on a scale of 1 to 10, then you will have an equally positive thing to balance the scale out. The trick is seeing the positives and negatives.

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Or are they one in the same? After countless hours contemplating peoples actions and the trends I witness growing up in a capitalist environment, I cannot find a definitive answer or universal truth. Rationally speaking, it should be accurate to say people are aiming for happiness by gaining status and money, however while looking at the evidence I come to a different conclusion.

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If a person is virtually a vegetable and can have no impact to society or any ones life, should they continue living? That is to say should their family continue allowing them to live and use the resources of the world. Is hanging onto their existence simply being afraid of death? Of losing a loved one? Read the rest of this entry »

Today I was having a talk with my good friend and co-writer of this site about my future. He brought up a subject which I have recently had deep thought about (as I do with many subjects unfortunately), and that was about making investments. Investment, which to me, is the simple the act of investing. The problem is there is a misconception of what that actually entails.

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