RE: [Paddlewise] ethics

	Wow! This is gettin deep....

	Let's see.  Ethics and morals are really the same thing....they are
what "you" believe in, while the masses may or may not agree with you.
Integrity is how you respond to your ethics when nobody is looking, so to
speak. Therefore, a person who, lets say, believes all wildlife is bad and
should be killed, holds killing wildlife as his ethics/morals.  They are
only "bad" because they aren't mainstream thoughts.  Further, if he follows
through with it and kills an animal every chance he gets, then he's
responding to his ethics/morals with a high degree of integrity!  Okay, we
don't neccessarily agree with him, but we respect his integrity, right?!?!?

	Okay, now lets say the government passes a law that you don't agree
with.   Do you disregard the law, and by so doing, effectively hold your own
little revolution, or do you submit to the law (that, by the way, you agree
to when you accept the honor of being a citizen of whereever you are) and
try to create change from within the system?

	If enough people decide to reject their agreement to work within the
system, then chaos emerges.  From chaos comes the extremeties of change -
some good, some bad - kinda like destruction preceeds construction.
Somewhere in there, someone will want to get control where there is none,
thus dictators emerge...some benevolent, some ruthless.  Is ruthlessness
neccessary to restore calmness and order, and is calmness and order a good
agent to create positive advancements.

	Hummmm...sound like the beginning of any wars anyones ever heard
about or participated in?

	What's my point, you ask?............... I don't have one. I'm just
here to stir, stir, stir, stir, stir.........  Anyone want to take a break
from changing the world and talk "more directly" about Paddling?  :-)

	Rick  (....Virginia)

	(go ahead, take a shot.....I'm wearing my super duper flame
resistent underwear today - and for those who are interested, the answer
is..........Jockies - white - usually Fruit of the Looms.... but I will take
requests if asked nicely)



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