Re: The latest sins

Paul Dean wrote:
Quasin wrote:
Mark Goodge wrote:

* Accumulating excessive wealth

I own a house (well, the bank and I together own it), is that excessive?

Far from it. Probably not enough wealth by the sounds of it... ;)

Oh, I realize, but by world standards I'm probably "wealthy." Depending on how wealth is measured.

If a person lives in a place where they can cut down some trees or bamboo and build a house in a few days for nothing, or buy food for pennies, is it fair to say their $200 a year budget that supplies shelter and food should be measured dollar for dollar against the $20,000 a year budget needed for a cheap home of your own and food where I live, and tell the $20,000 westerner "you're rich"?

There is "wealth" just in living in a place with clean water and free schools. But there is a different kind of "wealth" in living in a place where you can go build a house out of cut-it-down-yourself materials instead of living illegally under a bridge if you don't have shelter.


* Inflicting poverty

I think the issue is with everyday things. Your clothes and your basic foodstuffs. The problem is to find sources for those things which *don't* increase the poverty gap, because they are so relatively expensive that very few people would buy them.

I used to sew my own clothes, now the fabric costs two or three times what the comparable finished product sells for in stores. Real hard to find sources. Food prices are kept low by paying low wages, poor people benefit from low food prices; cheap imports allow poor people to afford clothes but eliminate their jobs.



* Morally debatable experiments

Can't think of any I'm involved in

Wow, what a thought. I'm trying to think of some in my life, and am worried that there are a couple of plausible possibilities :-)

Occurred to me one person here would think my praying without wearing a hat an immoral experiment! :)
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