100 unethical acts which we commit every day:
From eoswiki.co.uk
We:
- Pay taxes which:
- Support the war machine
- Support dominators
- Are invested in “aid” programmes which further exploit the Third World
- Support ‘health care’ programmes which don’t improve health but rather deflect attention from the causes of ill-health: poverty, pollution, poor housing, isolation, inappropriate living and working arrangements; decimation of families etc.
- Support education programmes generate incompetence, manufacture differentials which compel participation in a dysfunctional society etc.
- Are used to build highways which transport identical goods in opposite directions using trucks which consume vast quantities of fuel.
- Support social workers who impose their definition of “the problem” on other people and take children “out of poverty” instead of remedying the poverty.
- Vote in elections - ie for dominators who at best seek to cure problems caused by social systems failures and the previous acts of dominators by domination and for a “political” system dominated by diversionary issues - such as health budgets and arrangements, educational arrangements, transportation arrangements - and precludes citizen participation, systems change, catering for diversity - and, in the end, legitimises abdication of personal responsibility insisting that it be usurped by “those who know best”; they will solve our problems when, in reality, it is only we (collectively) who can do so. Thus, by voting, we contribute to a system which obfuscates, mystifies, and disempowers.
- Invest in banks and building societies who suck money and resources from poor communities, acquire ownership of their productive capacity, and promote the growth of the rich and the powerful.
- Buy newspapers and, in this way, both reinforce the myths they propagate about the workings of society, a focus on power and trivia, diversion onto trivia like pornography and pin-up girls, reinforce a preoccupation with “knowledge” to the exclusion of action, and contribute to the destruction of the rain forests.
- Buy foods produced by energy and chemical intensive agriculture and airlifted backwards and forwards around the world, packaged in plastics.
- Buy goods made in China, Indonesia and elsewhere which have both destructive effects on their producers and require massive are freight subsidies and pollution.
- Wear clothes sporting brand names which drip with blood.
- Use computers, the manufacture of which pollutes huge quantities of water and destroys fish stocks.
- Use electricity generated by gas or nuclear power which uses vast amounts of water for cooling and destroys fish stocks.
- Contribute to the development, production, and marketing (including financial services and advertising) of junk foods, junk toys, junk insurance, junk investment, junk education, junk health care, junk research.
- Contribute to the destruction of community care and its replacement by carers, police, social workers, tranquelisers, drugs based medicine.
- Claim to care when those we claim to care for either do not need us or are beyond our help.
