So the difference between me and him would be massive if I was the person I aspire to be. But it's still quite significant given the person I am. The most major difference is, if everyone was like me, even the imperfect version of myself I am, nobody would need to lock their door at night. Why? I might be willing to initiate conflicts in a video game based on competition as a source of mutual fun, but I'm simply not going to consciously screw over others for my own gain in my day to day life.
If I know your door is unlocked and you tell me you have ten thousand dollars in your dresser door, I'm not going to come take it because that's simply not who I am. Pretty sure if you're some dude Spetnaz doesn't know, and you tell him the same thing, you'll be down ten thousand dollars in pretty short order.
Secondly, yes. I'm actually a very conscious consumer. While it's impossible to research every brand of every single product you buy, our household has done research on our most commonly purchased products to ensure they're sourced ethically. Really that's what it's all about. Doing the best you can.
No. I don't sponsor any kids in Africa. As a recent college grad, I'm happy to have enough money for my fiance and I to live on ourselves. That will absolutely change if our own prosperity increases though. I may or may not sponsor a kid in Africa, but if I have much more than I need to meet my own basic necessities, it will benefit others who I don't have a direct relationship with. And even in our current circumstances, I wouldn't consciously screw them over to put myself further ahead.
*Sidenote. If Spetznat was the person with the ten thousand dollars and I was confident I could get away with it, I would give it to kids in Africa, because I do not respect your intrinsic value as a human or even fully recognize you as such if you routinely act on a lack of empathy for others. That's the chaotic-good side of me. He sees laws and morality as having no inherent value. I merely see laws as having no inherent value beyond when they create a better and more moral society, while morality has huge inherent value. We'd all be living in caves and stabbing each other with sharp sticks if we all behaved without regard to morality. Tribalism can only build so much when everyone is willing to screw over anyone they've never met.
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@Teknique and
@HappyHour
Kaemik, i think you got me totally wrong.
I see the world as it is, I for myself cant change the establisehed systems of robbing the african population. I for myself a powerless to do anythingh about it, even if i would be an activist and a vegan whatever guy. it wouldn't cahnge the world in my lifetime. ANd i wouldn'rt have any real impact on the world even after my death it would change nothing. If i would be the us presidant and the presidant of china and the money of bil gates than yeah maybe than you can change the world. but wtithout noo chance. I already accepted that long ime ago stuff i cant change, i will not waste my lifetime doing that.
I want to enjoy my life each moment i live. I dont want to waste my energy and my life in things i cant change. thats why profiting from it makes more sense. For my friends my family and me, befause when i got more than the people i know got more, my community got more, my friends got more, my family has more.
and second in your example i wouldn't rob you the 10000 because why should i. If you repsect me and you like me and i like you why should i, you trust me so you can also trust me to 100% percent. evne if i die. becasue your trust means more for me than any amount of money you can get, i would never betray someone who is loyal to me in any kind or way i would rather kill the guy who would have forced me to choose between. But if a gang is already robbing you anyway each month and i DONT KNOW YOU AT ALL. than why shouldn't i profit from it for my own sake and for the life of people i know. I cant change the fact that these people robbing you. And i can only be responsible for my action and what i do. And im doing no shit unless there is a logical reason behind, or it would happen anyways with me or without me.
second Moral and Ethics dont exists in reality. if they would exists we would live in utopia were everyone have everything they ever wnated. but thats not real.
If morals would exists in the real world we all would have burned nestle to ground. but we didn't.
Sure that some kid in africa die form nestle for all our prosperity is not right neither it is fair and nor it is good.
But the problem is it happens. If you participate in it directly or not. its reality it is like it is. Its hard and its frustrating and its shitty but it is like that.
And its no logically reason against profiting from it. because your friends your family and the people you know means more to you than people you dont know.
Im pretty sry i cant explain that very good. just google the estp mindset maybe than you realise how i think about that.
Thats why i hate the people saying. "oh shit we must stop nestle now". But as long that people dont throw molotovs immediatly or kill the responsible people at neslte. They are just hypocrits and shittspitters that dont take action. who think they doing the right thing, but they doing ntohing.
I admit i dont like that exploitation very much. But i relaise that i cant do much about it. And i see no ligical reason to take aways my freedom of choice and my freedom of opportunity for no result. Even if i change my life 100% i dont make any real impact at all. I can only make an impact about individuals and helping them and myelf thats stuff i care about.
its hard to understand and its hard tow rite that compact and in a way for someone else to understand.
to summarize:
Accept reality as it is.
And enjoy every second of your life.
And make the best out of it with the stuff that you're given.
Take care of the people around you.
Judge people by their actions not by their thoughts or by thier words.
Here maybe that helps:
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The Mind Info:
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