January 18, 2008
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Featured Question #162: What wouldn’t you do?
What is the one thing that you’ll never do in life? Why?
This is a difficult question because who really knows what they’ll be required to do in their lives? Would I kill? In the right circumstances, probably. I would definitely kill if I felt there was no other way to stop someone from hurting myself or someone that I perceived to be defenseless. I could say I’d never steal, but what if my life depended on it? What if I’d starve otherwise? Or other people were depending upon me? Like some bad criminal types were holding my family hostage.
I can say, with confidence, that I would never kill, just to kill. I’d never steal, just to steal. I’d never lie or cheat, just because I could. I would never do anything to simply to be malicious or self-serving. If I had to kill, steal, lie, or cheat, it would be because I couldn’t do anything else.
What wouldn’t I do….? If I ever manage to become president, and that is a big if because who would vote for an asexual female Pagan socialist candidate anyway, I’d never declare war on another country. I would always try to come to a peaceful conclusion to any dispute. I would never favor my country over the needs of the world…. for instance, do you know how much of our trash gets put in overseas landfills? Not only is some of the stuff our country ships out extremely toxic, but there has to be a better way to deal with garbage. I hate these short term solutions which only create more long term problems. If I had my way, recycling would be manditory everywhere in the United States. If something could not readily be recycled, there would be people whose job it was to dismantle anything thrown away to remove any recyclable parts, and I’d have other people working on ways to recycle those things which are not currently considered reusable. There would be no landfills, but public and private composting would be encouraged. Another thing that irks me are the chemicals that the US uses in food and in products that can make their way into the food chain. Some of these products are banned in other countries because of their effects on our biology. How can companies make and use things like that knowing the effect it will have on their children or their children’s children. Seriously, there is not enough forward thinking in the government or the FDA to make a pencil roll off the edge of a table.
So anyway, back on track here… the one thing I’d never do in life is anything for the sake of doing it. I try not to do anything casually. I mean, would I still be a virgin at 33 if I was at all casual-minded? lol If I do something, it’s because I have a reason and that reason usually includes other people and how they’ll be impacted by my actions.
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January 18th
In Japan, the annual Outakai-hajime, or poetry party, is held at Court. Poems on a given theme are selected from the entries submitted by the public and are read aloud.
Comments (4)
I wish more and more people recycled-I wish I had the resources to recycle here. Since we live in a condo, we can’t just leave our garbage on the street. And our garbage people have 2 recycle bins: for aluminum and for plastic. There’s no glass recycling, tin, etc: at work, we recycle everything-
It’s too bad I can’t take my garbage to work and recycle it: but, since it’s state property, I can’t.
I would never rob a bank or hurt my grandmother.
Robbing a bank is stupid and I wouldn’t be able to pull it off anyway,lol.
I love my poor grandmother is why I would never hurt her.
Lame answers, I know.
The reason why these companies do it is A) the $$$$ for the dollars. B) because they can.
wuld not leave my iance by choice. I love the man! I would not torture or abuse a helpless animal.
I refuse to answer on ground that it may incriminate me…ok now where’d I hide those bodies… let’s see, x marks the spot on the map….doh….someone spilled something on this map! SEriously though, I’m doing things I never thought I’d ever do in a million years….we change, we grow and life changes.