Weekend Wars: Cats vs. Dogs
This week's been interesting in terms of topics and responses, on WSO. I almost feel like I can compete with Zuckerberg. Yes, I know...he has 500,000 million users under his thumb. But I am starting to get a good idea of what some of you monkeys are all about. So tell me just one more thing so I can know precisely what sort of irrelevant product to spam you with.
Today, we're going to hit on another pulse node of seemingly irrelevant, but all together potentially monumental monkey crap...
No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun...it's never what you do but how IT'S DONE
I'm young enough to be able to text message, IM and smoke signal back-and-forth between three friends at once, but also recall a simpler time... Back when analogies likening men to dogs and women to cats could be met by a serious thoughtful discourse rather than an instantaneous branding of sexism and ignorance.
So after a long hard week of espousing personal values, I'm curious...
What if you knew you could have every last thing you ever wanted...but had to do that one thing that makes you physically ill in order to achieve it?
The one thing you despised and looked down upon...the one thing you said you would never do...if it could make IT happen for you. Would you go through with it?
Is a mansion on the beach, twin Bugatti Veyron's and the perfect life worth a self professed alpha male's emasculation?
Just as one...of many potential examples.
I gotta say, it's the question that interests me most about all of you guys...and ultimately...about myself.
Are we willing to do what it takes to achieve what we want...if we know going into battle that we will have to commit the one "crime" we consider most heinous?
Can you let yourself meow or bow wow proudly, against who you really are...
If that magic future you've concocted in your mind is the product purchased by the ultimate price?
Meh....I have no ego. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make my nut, with very few exceptions which typically involve gun trafficking, crashing the market, or assassin for hire.
I take it back. I would be an assassin for hire. No women or kids though.
Welll.......no kids.
Show me the dotted line, that's all I've got to say.
Ironically just saw this today:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7076477n
Lord of War is great movie by the way.
I enjoyed the movie, too.
Hey, I happen to know a few respectable businessmen that believe a person or country has the right to defend themselves and I am offended at your crass use of the pejorative term "gun runner." At least defense companies sell a product that works as advertised (mostly) unlike financial services...
More on topic, I'd say I'm fairly morally flexible. I went to a service academy and dealt with all the political, relgious and life or death issues that come with that and the career that follows. I work for a major bank that makes most of it's profit off exploiting the lazy or ignorant (don't they all). I'm alright with rationalizing collateral damage, the "free" market and more generally the idea that the only real crime is letting a sucker keep their money. But there are some things I still won't do. People who had a chance to make a choice but made a poor one, fuck them. People who never had that chance however should be protected. Physically, politically or financially. That's the line I won't cross and the line that I think balances an evolutionary world with a compassionate one.
Yikes.....gun trafficking specifically implies smuggling weapons into war zones and/or supplying both sides of third world armed conflict with weaponry. It can also mean supplying narco organizations with weaponry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_trafficking
Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition. Arms trafficking is a crime and should not be confused with legal and legitimate commerce in firearms for private use, or for military or police procurement.4 What constitutes legal trade in firearms varies widely, depending on local and national laws.4
Maybe you should know what the hell you're talking about before you get all high and mighty.
I was attempting to make a joke, sarcasm doesn't always translate to the page.
And my sarcasm detector is in the shop so that doesn't help either :P
To play devil's advocate, would you sell guns to Hitler?
3M, I'll do almost anything as long as I don't violate my personal boundaries. ie I couldn't go ahead with the Hitler situation
Na dude, then you'd be like the old white guy from Inside Man. He had a magnificent white mustache though.
I think if it came down to it, most people would do anything it took to achieve what they truly want. It's in our primal instincts. Without the risk of getting caught, it's amazing what people will do for self-actualization, Maslow's highest need. According to several motivation theories, people will do great things to achieve their highest-order needs.
A battle won is one that needs no fighting.
I doubt I would cross the moral line mainly because I am sort of religious
Also what song is that line from I remember its from Nas but that's all
Everyone saying "I would do anything except that" is completely missing the point. The "that" is exactly what you'd have to do.
I'd have to pass though. Life is about the journey, not the destination. Afterall, happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Nah dude, Sorry to burst your bubble but happiness is all in your pants...
And maybe I'm really tired, but MMM it seems like you were on speed when you wrote this.
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