Rant 145 / You Are Always Who They Think You Are Because They Will Never Know Who You Think You Are

It may seem like buttocks at first, but I found this thread on a forum that tried to convince people that this is the side-view of a guy's chest and arm. I couldn't see it until I saw the next picture that explained it.








Yea, the neck is too thick though. I saw it, but it is really is a pair of butt cheeks. LOL!





The reason why societies should take decades to develop from a third world country to a first world one is not because people take a long time to gain enough wealth. I believe it has to do with their ethics. A person who grows up in poverty usually have very different moral standards from one who grows up in a wealthy environment.

That is also the reason why most poor people stay poor. It's not because they were not given the opportunities, but because of their ethics and their attitude towards work.

An example is certain very distant relatives of mine who used to work in a government hospital in China decades ago. They work in the pharmacy and they would give medicines to any friends and relatives who asked for it. Without a doctor to prescribe it, they did not know how many doses the people need. So instead of asking for advice from the doctors which would reveal their illegal activities, they would just give bags of them. Take the meds till the symptoms were gone, I guess their advice to would be. Which is bad advice when it comes to antibiotics.

I bet they didn't see this as wrong. Instead, they might even have thought it as right, if not lawful. Back in those days, people in China were poor. This would help them get well without forcing them to spend the money they'd need to buy food. These people would likely need to borrow money to buy the medicines anyway.

Is this the grey area then? True in some cases, false in others.

Not everyone were unable to afford the meds. How could they have known who really couldn't afford them and who could? Therefore, they must have given them to anyone who seems to be too poor to pay for the meds. Anyone could pretend to be poor.

Such illegal practices would be hard to stop once it starts. It is hard to stop giving out free stuff once people get used to it. Any interruption would cause protests and complaints, even though it was illegal in the first place. Illusions of friendship and good relations created by the Santa Claus behaviour would vanish. So even when people were reaching the level of wealth where they could afford the meds, this would not have stopped.

Ethics.

People find it hard to change after a certain age. And as an adult, one does not expect others to tell them to change, unless those others are people very close to oneself, eg spouse. If the people describe above were your parents, you'd likely grow up with the same views. However, because of the increasing wealth of society around you, you'd see less need for it, thus becoming less inclined to continue what your parents were doing. Nevertheless, you'd not see what your parents were doing as wrong. Most likely anyway.

But the following generation, not being able to witness the practice of your parents, would be more willing to describe it as wrong. In my opinion, it takes at least 3 generations to change the moral standards of a family.

In the end, how can a society grow if the people had moral standards like the above? Thank the powers that be that people aren't immortals. If the habit of turning a blind eye to illegal activites was to become rampant, no community can grow.