2007-10-04 04:46:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
truej: there are true believers in goodwill in every culture & it's the greedy rich in EVERY culture that are usurping their authority for their own interests
2007-10-04 07:00:01 · update #1
Sadism, genocide, corrupt leadership (certain politics), war, abuse (child, spouse, drug, self, all in general)... all in all, unkindness.
2007-10-04 04:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by Bob Saget 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The same thing that has always been going on, the thing that every serious reformer has attacked: the abuse of the poor by the rich. It is natural for a mortal, vulnerable human being to want to seek a reasonable level of security in an uncertain world. But there are two ways to go about it: do it yourself or do it together.
The first method requires tremendous personal effort to collect and utilize the necessary resources, food, shelter, defense, the escalation is endless. And with every gain, there is that much more to be protected, requiring an even greater degree of effort. It is fundamentally unjust, being based on the notion that I am most importand and there isn't enough to go around so I'd better make my pile as big as possible to the detriment of others.
The second method requires trust and risk, trust that enough people are working for the common good, risk that there are enough people abusing the public effort to ruin it. It is fundamentally just because it assumes each person has value and deserves equal treatment, and there are sufficient resources be spread and shared as efficiently as possible.
Because of the risks, the selfish method is the most attractive. But it is also an illusion. No individual can provide entirely for himself at anything more than a subsistence level, assuming that he has control of the necessary territory to hunt or farm. Civilization is premised on the division of labor and the sharing of resources to produce the efficiencies that make life beyond the bow and the plow possible. People who achieve great wealth do so because of the efforts of their fellow citizens, whether it be the labor of the factories they invest in or the utility of the roads their food suppliers travel on.
It is a common game of the rich to pretend that the infrastructure and distribution systems they live on required no creation and need no maintenance, that their riches were built entirely by their own effort and that the poor have no claim on them because the poor simply haven't applied themselves. Either they are deluded into thinking that some people are naturally more worthy than others or they realize their security is based on keeping others insecure.
The more wealth one has, the more effort is required to keep it protected from humanity. But with wealth comes influence, and civic government is easily corrupted by money to protect the interests of the richest against the interests of the poor, and even more, the threat of the middle class, that odious hybrid that has just enough power to siphon more potential wealth from the rich than the poor ever could.
Without poor people, a wealthy class is impossible. The poorer more people are, the richer the richest can be. That is the guiding purpose of some people as evidenced by severely unbalanced economic and social policies, both within and between countries. And every issue, taxes, trade, medicine, "morality", war, diplomacy, labor policy, etc. is a tool to both enrich and impoverish. The motivation for justice is chronically eclipsed by the motivation of greed.
2007-10-04 12:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The growing technological progression of the USA in counterpart to its ethical stagnation and the dumbing down of its educational systems and mass media.
I think men like Thomas Jefferson had a wonderful ideal for a nation and its upsetting that its been highjacked.
2007-10-04 11:52:23 · answer #3 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That a small minority of people want to force everyone else to believe it is okay for men to lay with men and women to lay with women. This is a choice to live this way. No one was menat to live this way. It is only because they live in the world and they care what the world cares about.
2007-10-04 12:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by Mark S 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Genocide
2007-10-04 12:25:31 · answer #5 · answered by mediahoney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where is my list...oh here it is..
1. war
2. people dying needlessly in war
3. poverty and our tolerance to see death on our tv
4. the way we slaughter meat if you knew the truth you would be sick
5. the way people neglect their animals
6. women that are treated like trash in their marriages
7. the media and how they make every event into a feature film OJ Vicks the list grows..
8. People die that are in the media and when a new one comes along the other is forgotten
9. The injustice of if you are wealthy you can buy a Not guilty verdict
10. Greed
11. Racism in all its ugly forms
2007-10-04 11:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Religion
2007-10-04 11:54:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The ungrateful attitude of some people who live in this free country.
Terrorism-Single desire to kill for no other reason than to destroy peace.
2007-10-04 12:28:18 · answer #8 · answered by Airmech 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People not using the brain they were born with. Many are gathering dust from disuse.
Common people, think!
2007-10-04 11:51:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rosie O'Donnell.
2007-10-04 11:49:40 · answer #10 · answered by Meat Bot 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
People turning from God,and denying and mocking him,
God said this is the beginning of the end.
2007-10-04 11:50:50 · answer #11 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋