(January 4, 2016 at 4:36 pm)bennyboy Wrote: People get used to being congratulated just for expressing correct ideas. You'll get 5 dudes with $2000 computers sitting their drinking their Starbucks douche-o-chinos and talking about the desperate plight of Tibetan Buddhists or whatever. However, the chance that any of them would send money, or so much as touch an actual Tibetan outside a sanctioned charity event, is a little less than 1%.
That being said, we ALL hold values we don't fully act on-- because that would automatically mean a life of poverty and complete dedication to a bunch of causes. So you have environmentalists buying Apple products made in Chinese factories, vegans buying vegatables from farms that kill thousands of rodents with pesticides, etc. Tell one of those vegans they aren't really vegan because they are failing to act, and you'll get a strong negative reaction for sure.
Let me ask you this-- do you own a car? If so, how many sandwiches could you buy if you sold the car and made other transportation arrangements?
Oh I won't debate that benny. Certainly you make good points, it's when someone "claims" to be extremely passionate about something but their lack of some sort of action on the issue merely classifies it as moralizing and not compassion.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
