We live in a world today where we can hardly trust many of our mechanics, lawyers, our government officials, many other types of businesses, and especially our doctors. The more unethical acts that occur, the more it will provoke others to do the same and spread like a contagion. Eventually you will be immersed and surrounded by evil if you do not take action and put some effort into bringing peace and happiness in your life.
The earth and society are your primary home and are also your root source of happiness, which is derived from interacting with the earth and society. Without them we cannot exist nor will we be happy. It only makes sense to spend a percentage of our time to help sustain them in a positive way. (Picture a house enclosing the earth and a second smaller house on the earth somewhere that says “your second home”)
MORE PROBLEMS
The lack of ethics in our society has caused tremendous suffering that has touched all of us and even worse, every act of evil can provoke others to do the same or worse. For instance, pratically everyone is effected by the financial and mortgage crisis that began in 2007, which was partly due to a chain of fraudulent activity by borrowers, mortgage companies, and some of the big banks. And now that people have less money, businesses are even more likely to be unethical and even less trustworthy. Usually during a recession crime rates go up as well.[1] [2] But all of this can easily be turned around by just doing the opposite and showing the love to others and educating others or just simply referring them to this site. Fundamental psychology teaches us that most people will follow what their surrounding group and environment does. |
| GM’s 1996 Electric Car |
Just as damaging, there are doctors every day prescribing unnecessary surgeries to benefit their pockets but putting their patients lives at risk.[5]
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| GM’s billboard for the electric car |
If one of your more important goals is to ensure happiness and peace for your friends, family, and yourself, then it is only logical for you to devote a percentage of your time in promoting the importance of peace and ethics in the society that you live in, and it will be illogical for you not to do as such.
MAJOR MISCONCEPTIONS:
The reason why selfishness, greed, and evil is able to proliferate in our society is because:“It is impossible to change evil/selfishness/the way the world works.” OR “I’m just an average joe and I can’t do anything.”
Our goal is not to change evil nor the trait of selfishness which may very well be impossible. However, it is very possible to make major changes in the world just like how slavery was abolished in America or how Wikileaks.com may be starting a new trend of whistleblowers for unethical acts. Major change can start with something as small as you reading this right now. Every action, whether big or small (good or bad) can have a ripple effect. Just by you reading this and telling one other person about this site can lead to a major ripple effect that you would have never imagined.
“I can scheme or rip people off because I will make a lot more money and that will bring me happiness.”
A quick and dirty buck may only bring you happiness momentarily, and that is if you don’t get caught. Conducting unethical acts will provoke others and give them reason to do the same or worse. Eventually, you will be surrounded and immersed in evil that is willing to rob or even kill for your money. Conducting unethical acts will eventually put a dent in your happiness.
To show you an example of how of this works we will take our complex society and reduce it to a more simpler example. Lets say for example, that there are 10 people in the world. One person decides to steal food from other people instead of working for it. The rest of the 9 people catch on and almost everyone begins stealing food as well because someone already screwed things up and its easier than working for it. Now life for the 10 people has become much more miserable because whether or not you work for your food, you have to protect your food and your own life.
Not to mention, that when you commit an unethical act, you take the risk of being sued, possible jail time, a bad reputation and rejected from society. So if you were a good mathematician you would understand that chances are against you when you make a choice of doing something unethical. There are many consequences to doing something bad, but you can’t go wrong being good.
“I don’t need to do anything because there are many others that are willing to help the world.”
We are at a time where ethics, societies, and economies all across the globe are deteriorating and spiraling down to new depths. If you haven’t already noticed, people now in many different countries are standing up to being robbed of their well being by fraudulent and corrupted people in the big banks and in government. There are major riots in Greece, France, England, and will soon effect us as well. It is crucial that we all act now. If everyone did their part, imagine how much less suffering everyone has to go through and how much happier everyone can all be. It is as easy as spreading the word to others and being more aware of what is going on a bigger scale by watching non-mainstream media because a lot of mainstream media is censored or biased. Mainstream media might report on an important event but it may be very short which is a type of censorship.
“It should always be ‘me’ first.”
The culture of individualism, our capitalistic society, and many other factors has led us to believe we as individuals are more important than the society as a whole. But the truth is society can function normally without an individual, but an individual will have a difficult time functioning and will be a lot less happy without society. Therefore, the placement of importance of society and ourselves may need some adjustment for many of us. If you want to be happy, you should put effort in promoting a peaceful and ethical society and environment that you live in.
SOLUTION
- Individually, we should become more aware of what is truly important and what is happening around us. One way to do that is to watch non-mainstream media such as NPR.org, RT.com, DemocracyNow.org, etc. However and regardless of where you get your information, you should always think for yourself and learn to question things that do not seem right. If we educate ourselves correctly, then we can also educate many others.
- Spread the word of peace, ethics, and sites like this to make people more aware of the problem and why unethical acts do not pay and will do more harm to yourself than good.
- As a starter and as more people wake up, many good ripple effects will cast out and there will be more peace and happiness in the world. It is not easy to produce change in the world but it is very doable and it depends on how many people come together and how much we desire a more peaceful and happier home. Together we are strong in numbers and policies can change if enough people speak out for it.
- One great policy that we can work towards, is to implement ethics classes into our education system, so that we can invest in all of our future generations; the future doctors, lawyers, businesses, etc.
References
- Rose, Gareth (2010-11-03). “Law-abiding citizens turn to crime during recession”. The Scotsman. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- Ball, Jeanne (2010-11-25). “Could Meditation Have Something to Do with Plummeting Crime Rates?”. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- “Who Killed the Electric Car”. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
- Hsu, Tiffany (2010-11-16). “California cars 99% cleaner than in 1960s, but smog levels still high, study says”.Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
- Barron, James (1989-04-16). “Unnecessary Surgery”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
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