July 28, 2010

An example of the things that were always on his mind

I have constantly been frightened -- or I might even dare say horrified, by what seemed to me the true face of humanity through articles about certain scientific experiments carried out on multiple diverse groups of people from different cultures, backgrounds, social settings.

And it seemed to me that as long as it is not the subject's responsibility to answer for his own actions, despite having total free choice of choosing the "obviously morally right" action, an individual would chose the other action just because they are prompted to.

Abide the fact that the individuals protests, even without punishment for the choice of the "obviously morally right" option nor rewards for the opposite, only little further prompting is required for the individuals to do the latter.

So just imagine that somehow throughout the thousands of years of human civilization's evolution, the concept of taking responsibility for an action that takes advantage of another person's disadvantage with little work was never established, what would this world be like?

That might sound like I discourage competition if read the wrong way, but let's draw a line between competition and crime.

I am sure many agree that the race to obtain market share of certain products or services between corporations is competition, and is obviously healthy for the market, economy and the consumers' pockets.

However, what about the use of financial power to "discourage" market consumers to purchase from competing corporations?

That's what we call bribery to create unfair trade situations, and it is in fact against the law.

From the same basis of abusing power are other actions that are completely unrelated and are prohibited by laws all over the world, and this is action can be summarized as bully.

However, many such actions are not considered against the law, despite their basis of abusing certain forms of large advantage over another entity, yet entire "first-world nations" exercise this form of abuse and make it seem all necessary and morally right.

[There is so much more I want to talk about, but I have no time. Perhaps I'll add more to this later on.]