Whoever
you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to the profiteers and the
thieves who are taking advantage of the “Taal Volcano Eruption”. These
profiteers are selling the surgical mask at exorbitant prices to people who are
already suffering from the Taal volcano eruption.
These
profiteers had no scruples and they are rubbing salt on the wounds of the
victims without regard their already grim existence has now gotten a lot worse.
The situation rings alarm bells to the government. Yes, the victims would have
no choice but to buy the mask because they needed them desperately. On the
other hand, the profiteers are happy because they pulled a fast one out of the
situation.
The
profiteers might be overwhelmed with their big profit margin. But they failed
to consider what if the shoe was on the other foot; that the circumstances have
reversed and they are now the ones being taken advantaged of? What would they
feel? They better make more use of the analogous thinking based on an extension
of the Golden Rule. This goes also to the thieves who stole anything of value
from the abandoned houses.
It is
the mind that is the root of all human knowledge and values — and its absence
is the root of all evil. Reason is needed by all of us at all times. All of the
heroes are thinkers: they demonstrate an ongoing commitment to understanding
their work, themselves and the world around them. They choose their goals and
values by a process of thought, never putting their desires above their code of
ethics linked in their culture, their profession, their religion.
The
villains, on the other hand, are those who defy reason and evade the code of
ethics, acting on what’s left: their feelings. As a result, they are in
constant conflict with reality and achieve nothing. This is what leads one to
the conclusion that thinking is the basic virtue life requires, and that the
anti-mind is the anti-life.
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