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I have a moral and ethical conflict with my desire to have a rural piece of land. I am a truck driver by trade, the only job I have ever been able to hold and make decent money at. To make enough money to buy a relatively small piece of land I would have to drive truck enough to burn between 35,000 and 50,000 gallons of diesel. How can I justify this? Not only does this contribute to pollution by spewing poisons into the air, but it pollutes along the entire process of creating the diesel as well. And not only that, but the oil is being acquired all over the Earth damaging and destroying life in all the locations where oil corporations operate, and contributing to the damage and destruction of life in all the locations where other corporations operate by providing the base materials. People in foreign lands are being hurt and killed for oil which is used for the things that I haul. This so I can have a piece of land to call home? There is nothing wrong with wanting and needing a home. But the means cannot be justified by the end. In so doing I am participating in the psychopathic behavior of the corporations. Are you participating in the psychopathic behavior of a corporation? How do you justify it? How do you justify the harming of the Earth and other people? Are you a psychopath? Perhaps it would be better if I was homeless, hungry, dirty and had only a couple things I could carry with me. My honor would be intact. I would be behaving morally and ethically and I would feel some peace in my heart. It is not merely the trucking that is destructive to life in all ways, but the entire process of the making of all the stuff I haul that is destructive in all it's ways too. There is little upside, if any. This became clearer when I saw a documentary called, "The Corporation (Youtube)." The idea of Life in the minds of people has become confused with the way we are living. Life, and the way we are living are not the same. Life is literally that which is growing. And in much of what we do and how we live, we literally destroy life, directly and indirectly. Direct would be the use of something that kills something else. Indirect would be the purchase of something from a company that uses products that kill for the purpose of making the product we buy to make a profit. Psychopathic participation might be to do something knowing the harm it is causing, but choosing to do it anyway. Choosing to do nothing to change what is happening is psychopathic apathy. People are being displaced, starved and murdered so that we can have the nice things I haul. Land all around the Earth is being destroyed with chemicals, oil and gas. Land is being stripped of trees, not responsibly logged, which in my opinion is questionable, but downright stripped. This is other people's homes. Millions of people. This is not a case of unjustified Imminent Domain, this is plunder of other countries for the purpose of profit in another country. Our country is one of those doing the plundering. Developed countries are developed because they are better at plundering. My heart cries for the injustices we as a people are committing for such superficial wants, not needs. We do not need the gizmos and gadgets, fast transportation or other goodies to breath, eat, be healthy and happy. In fact, doing what we are doing has made it all but impossible to get pure unprocessed food with no chemicals. It is wrong. Harming others is wrong. It is an understatement to say we are harming people through our participation in Corporations, when what the Corporations are doing is plundering other countries and murdering people for the profit they get selling products to us. Maybe I deserve a piece of land to make a home. But do I still deserve it when I have participated indirectly, but knowingly, in the plunder of other peoples' land? Do I deserve to have a home when my means of getting it involves the murder of people that I help to perpetuate by participating with psychopathic Corporations? Only if I can take this real life horror and use it to participate in the ending of the horror, maybe. Make the Corporations into serpents that eat themselves and die. "I wish I was funny. Then I could be a funny psychopathic participant and make people laugh at the horrors they indirectly participate in. More laughing psychopaths. That's exactly what we need." --me Anonymous #Op Hiroshima video |