Why is work moraly good when it is ulimatley based on exploitation of animal humans or earths resouces?

Question

Why is work moraly good when it is ulimatley based on exploitation of animal humans or earths resouces

you changtzu the 3 monkeys and a 100 babies are in a boat at sea surrounded by sharks I punch a hole in the bottom of the boat so i am destroyng the boat but creating food for the sharks-you happy with that -no comment on good or bad ? just comming from an emlightened place

Answer 1

Morals are far from absolute.

One mans moral crusade is often someone Else's crisis.

Look at Iraq.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Once upon a time, we lived in small tribes and women took care of agriculture for the tribe (fruits, veggies, grains) while men took on the sometimes dangerous job of hunting for meat, fighting off other tribes, and so on. Men did this work because they were considered more expendable than women, as women can bear children. All this work left no time for liesure activities like creating a written language, music, poetry, stories - the cultural arts that are a keystone in our definition of civilization.

The first technological advances made certain tasks of food and shelter provision easier, left more free time. This led to the invention of the cultural arts, which were greatly in demand, which in turn led to specialization. Artisans of all sorts spent all their time on their crafts, gaining wealth and prestige for their tribes. In return, the rest of the tribe took care of their food and shelter.

This eventually evolved into our present system, where it is highly unlikely you grow any of your own food. Someone else must grow it for you. You probably did not build your dwelling place. Someone else built it for you. You did not weave the cloth your clothes are made of, nor did you in all likelihood make your clothes. Someone else did it for you.

Money is the consideration you give these someones for their skills. Work is what you do to contribute to society (the wealth and prestige of your tribe) and money is your compensation, to be used to pay others for providing you with what you cannot provide yourself.

It is true that human corruption and greed have led to greivous imbalances in the system, with people being paid too little to afford the things they can't make or grow, but work in and of itself isn't about exploitation. That's just the human twist on it.

Clear?

Answer 3

There is a flaw in the logic.... if not to be used, are resources merely meant to be kept in store?.... and mind you a lot of them in any case would deteriorate with the mere passage of time. Work as correctly defined means converting any existing material or energy into another form or situation so as to be better suited for use to fulfil our needs. Whether we work or not, we have to consume and that will anyway deplete resources... by working we make sure the resources are more useful, which as a corollary means that they serve the purpose better.

The excess exploitation of resources is less to do with work and more to do with unwanted and excessive consumption or waste!

Answer 4

Because it's a delusion specifically created to make laziness seem immoral. Work, for the past few thousand years, was not so dangerous because we did it on such a small scale. Now that we are destroying the earth every day, we have a hard time pulling back on that stance.

Answer 5

"Chuang Tzu

Translation by Derek Lin

Creation & Destruction (Three in the Morning)

When you break something up, you create things.
When you create something, you destroy things.
Material things have no creation or destruction.
Ultimately these concepts connect as one.

Only the enlightened know that they connect as one,
So instead of debating this with your preconceptions,
Approach it in an ordinary way.

Those with this ordinary approach, simply apply the idea.
Those who apply it, connect with it.
Those who connect with it, attain it.
This easily attained understanding is not far off.

It all flows naturally.
To attain this state and not even know it,
Is what we would call Tao.
To exhaust your mind trying to unify them,
And not realize that they are the same,
Is what we we would call "three in the morning."

What is this "three in the morning"?

A man who fed monkeys with chestnuts said to them:
"Three portions in the morning, four in the afternoon."
All the monkeys got angry.

The man then said:
"Alright, four in the morning and three in the afternoon."
All the monkeys were pleased.

The food and the quantity had not changed,
And yet resulted in anger and happiness,
All because of the different arrangement.

Therefore the sages incorporate the two concepts,
Don't even try to debate truth and falsehood,
And maintain the principle of natural balance.
This is what we would call the dual approach."

Answer 6

Work used to involve contributing to your society (hunting, gathering, maintaining dwellings etc) all of which ensured the survival of the community. Our natural inclination is to view work as beneficial to our fellow human beings (i.e. of possessing moral worth).

Nowadays however, work seems to involve ensuring the survival of ourselves and the maintenance of our nation (which is NOT a community but rather a collection of individuals). So today I don't think work is a moral concept.

Answer 7

Not work as such but rather exploitation is something that is morally wrong.

Answer 8

it would be better for you to throw your enlightened self in to feed the sharks and let others decide for themselves what they want for there life