Thursday, April 27, 2006

The Sins of The Commons

The title-I admit-sounds tendentious. I regret that I cannot find a better word to express my points. The title has relation at all with the religious meaning, such as doing unlawful acts against God. What I meant by the "sins of the commons" are the sins that we commit even without doing anything, the sins that all of us commit and share. Most of them are done because of ignorance or negligence. Some because the facts is totally hidden from us, some because of our lack of attention.

By just being a member of a social group or a citizen of a nation makes us a contributor of an evil act. By being a good citizen and a tax payer, while your money is used by your goverment to buy weapons to invade other country or to suppress certain group in your own country, have made you an evil accomplish. Moreover if you vote to support the current goverment for that term.

By buying a product that is produce by a company that use child labor, destroying environment or even killing certain group of people for economic resource have made you an evil accomplish.

And the worst thing is, by using money-which is cannot be helped-have made you a contributor of the current world monetary system that is unjust and unfair (I will explained it in other writing).

How can we manage to escape from these sins?

Educate your self to know which one is right or wrong, build a self-sufficient community, and organize a non violence civil disobedience movement, such as the one by Gandhi, when necessary!

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