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How can it be right,

when money means more than life? How can it ever be right.

How can we let people die for vanishing slips of devilish green.

Is it ok with you?

Because this isnt the battlefield, its the marketplace. And you and I pulled the trigger.

And I feel sick.

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alphabuilder offline Verified User (5 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (12 hours, 38 minutes after post)

Yeah capitalism can be ugly, but is also responsible for inspiring mankind to fulfil aspirations he/she could never thought about in a non personal gain orientated society. Not everybody puts money before others life’s however in a free market it is inevitable that those who make the decision to place capital gain over moral and ethical responsibility’s will find themselves in charge of more power, and thus people end up dead for the evil green. More power puts such inderviduals in a position to influence changes in society which further instils a systematic mechanism for others suffering and there own personal gain. Allow this to evolve for a few century’s and you end up in a society like ours where the simple act of buying a pair of shoes is part of a abuse chain that stretches across the globe all the way down to a poor child in rags working like a slave in a greasy sweatshop. This however does not mean that the blood is on all our hands, its just that we are born into a world where so much is beyond our control, we learn to function in society before we learn the ugly truths of our society. Its normal to be angry as we learn. The truth is it seems injustice has been around as long as civilisation but so have kind deeds and acts of humanity. We all will find times when we have choices, make yours count for what you believe in.

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An Undisclosed Location | 5 months ago (1 day, 20 hours after post)

If we simply remain in the woodwork then the blood is not only on our hands, it is both what we bathe in and what sustains us. I accept this. And yes, as a child and even now I grew angrier as I learned, but more than anger is just a desire to change things. When I wrote this I found out a friend of mine is probably going to die because his insurance company refuses to provide for him the medicine that he needs to keep on living. Understandable isnt it, they need their profit. But its not understandable, not to human beings. Not to those of us who love eachother. Just because a system is in place doesnt make it right, just because people can and do thrive in it, does not make it optimal. Injustice has always been around, and people have always fought to fix that. I hope our complacency doesnt allow that fight to ever cease.

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An Undisclosed Location | 5 months ago (1 day, 20 hours after post)

No, it’s not right. But the truth is we are still evolving. Once we bashed each other’s heads in over a scrap of food. Now we exchange pieces of paper, or numbers, so that others can make our food (and only sometimes do they have to bash the workers’ heads). Eventually we won’t need food at all. We are not now more evil because we still compete. All of nature competes. We became aware of it and have evolved empathy as a means to propel us toward even greater change.

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An Undisclosed Location | 5 months ago (1 day, 21 hours after post)

I agree with that philosophy sans, I’d say that outrage too should spur change however.

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