Saturday, April 11, 2009

PC Paradigm...Plus Morally, Who Are You?

A couple of news items have sparked my thought juices.

It seems that being PC (political correct) is the height of intelligence, breeding and education. That in and of itself cuts out most of the population. Which gives the PC gurus the power (in their own mind) to pass judgement on the world. It is a confusing world...take case in point...the author of "Marley and Me" has been lamblasted for being the world lousiest dog owner. There are groups who are stating it is the owner who is untrainable not the dog ( this is a fact) but why do we have to pass public judgement on a guy who turned his story into a million dollar movie. Would Hollywood have made a successful movie with a perfectly behaved dog whose owner is equally behaved...totally not a blockbuster. Then there is the woman who breeds German Shepards...she made the mistake of selling one of her puppies to Biden. Now she get hate mail, death threats and protesters outside her home for choosing to breed purebred dogs instead of sending Biden to the pound. What business is it of anyone what kind of dog the Biden's purchase. Are public figures supposed to the the PC poster children??? Are they all required to only buy or live by PC rules. If one of them is caught on camera drinking water out of a plastic bottle will they be flogged by environmentalist.

Don't get me wrong, I spend a fare portion of my life trying to figure out what works for me, whether it be food, car, pet, job, house but, too use a totally un PC term...jesus h. christ...it is a free country and if you are following the law everything else is free choice.

Morality is ever evolving. Your behavior and who you are can change. So, if you are functioning under the moral radar on certain choices in your life and you recognize them as immoral like choices and you do not change...that is when you are on a slippery slope. We are not perfect but it is when we choose to change our behavior because we recognize it as default that we make progress to evolving to a better person. Case in point...a family goes to a restaurant and one member orders an all you can eat salad bar and shares the one plate with each family member. Is this wrong? Yes. You did not order an all you and your family can eat salad bar, only for yourself. It is these little bits of stealing that do not help in a marginally teetering economy. I am faced with little choices that I might have overlooked before, but once I decided to live a "clean" life...I am faced with moral choices left and right. What I do know is I want to be that person I believe I am.

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