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Originally posted by Kool Aide Sipper
As America evolves there needs to be more people who watch other individual's actions and moderate these actions rather than act themselves. What do you think?
Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
Sounds like the younger generation is trying to get out of working for a living by creating a new market for themselves, lol.
Your idea is a little rough around the edges on this issue.
I sit in a cafe all day alongside other laptop immersed perople, and we're always watching over each other in different shifts - heck, even the patrons do this.
People watchers are everywhere.
As far as people who get PAID to perform this service - they better have passed through extensive psychological screening before being given the power to pass judgement on their fellow men and women based solely on looks/actions alone.
I was recently barred from a Starbucks for mentioning the word "bomb". I was also talking to a friend and in the context of a short story I was writing. A young girl working behind the counter has passed by and overheard a part of the conversation and took it upon herself to "report suspicious behavior".
I'm sure she meant well, but in relaying the story to her manager she added a few of her own details and now I was "threatening to blow up the place".
Public surviellence? Not a good idea for the untrained, and definitely not a good idea for hyperactive teenagers with short attention spans.
Also - the thread of your post is "America is not ethical enough". Just kinda curious what you meant by that. Care to add?
[edit on 30-5-2006 by GENERAL EYES]
Originally posted by Kool Aide Sipper
As America evolves there needs to be more people who watch other individual's actions and moderate these actions rather than act themselves. What do you think?
Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
Don't forget what Jesus taught us :
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Originally posted by Kool Aide Sipper
would a society with a strict code of ethics and laws be more ethical than one without?
Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
I suppose how those ethics were enforced and how any deviation from them were dealt with would answer that question.
Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
I suppose how those ethics were enforced and how any deviation from them were dealt with would answer that question.
Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
Don't forget what Jesus taught us :
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
(Matthew 7:1-5)
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
These exhortations are pointed against rash, harsh, and uncharitable judgments, the thinking evil, where no evil seems, and speaking of it accordingly.