So What Am I Getting At? Part I

So, what am I getting at here?

Well, what I'm trying to do with this post is stimulate a conversation about morality, about government, society and life in general by highlighting some observations about the way we all behave, and challenging whether or not our behavior is sensible.

Obviously I cannot do this all today, as I'm supposed to work on a Latin assignment tonight, but maybe I can get the conversation started.

In particular, a big issue I want to discuss is why various religions and organisations cannot seem to get along. And then I want to take it one step further and broadcast a proposal that may help us all.

When I imagine a perfect world, I see a Christian man and a Muslim woman working together to offload bread off the back of a truck, like builders passing bricks. The bread is being passed on to a retired Hindu man that is slicing and buttering the bread before passing it an atheist teenager that is adding the slices of tomato and cheese before handing a completed sandwich to a vegetarian African child of Asian descent and his Xhosa friend.

These volunteers doing the "work" in this scenario are all operating at Level 4 in the hierarchy of morality I discussed earlier this month. Let's call these people the Resource Benefactors, in other words, these are the people that have the ability to share some of the abundance of their resources with others.

The children, for the sake of completing the symmetry in the story are at Level 2, they do not have an abundance of resources to share with society. In fact, they don't even have enough to feed themselves. This doesn't make any less valuable members of society, in fact they could be the resource super-benefactors of the future, if they are given the opportunity to grow.

But I digress, the point is... why don't people from different ideological backgrounds work together in this way. In fairness, there probably are isolated cases of this kind of collaboration, but my observation from a Christian background, is that Christians will get together with other Christians and do this kind of thing... but wouldn't it be better if we could pool our resources... Economies of Scale and all that?

I don't know the answer to this question, in truth it probably cannot be answered; but I think a factor in answering this question can be found by looking for clues in the behavior of supermarket chains...

Give it some thought. ;)