Free Beer: The truth about dishonesty

RSA - Free Beer: The truth about dishonesty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGxguJsirI

Majority of people in general believe it is their right to live life the way they see it fit, and if cheating is part of one's cognitive behaviour and own's embedded beliefs in good living, cheating for those people is a natural behaviour and a smart way of living a good life to the full. These equate with a reality of life, which favours by far the notion of the 'Survival of the Fittest'! (hence the latest crave over our 'health & fitness' at times to unhealthy excesses such as those thriving aesthetic surgeries making millions from ever more unhappy 'customers'!) Morality here doesn't hold any value or consideration! For many, 'cheating' has simply different connotations linked to our perceptions and interpretations, along our understanding of what 'cheating' means and represents! These are very much relevant to our own engrained perspectives, state of mind and depth of vision. All these are linked to a variety of variables, from our cultural, to inherent and inherited traditions & customs; to those being taught, institutionalised and groomed by way of industrial labour & corporate skilling, along those inculcated through community, the society and religious beliefs. Many of these get very much to dictate our propensity towards fear or bravery, greed or abstinence, self-control or indulgence; to all levels of our moral values, including our empathy & compassion to truly care for one another, and love others. These will differ from one person to another or society to another. For example, some don't think it is actually 'cheating' if one is enjoying a simple and honest Life from having a decent home, listening to music, to walking in natural parks and enjoying our Earth's natural resources, to learning about education and knowledge, to receiving essential healthcare keeping us fit & healthy, or to living in a civilised peaceful world, where mutual respect, love and harmony as a humanitarian and basic human needs truly exist and are freely provided, with 'free access' to a 'Respectable Good Life' (Maslow's hierarchy revisited here) as a natural human requirement for adequate living and a dignified survival in our modern times (why else do we condemn 'poverty' and 'destitution'?!). With the advent of 'Trade' along 'Monetized Currencies' since ancient times, cheating was created, discovered and polished to suit the masses. It has been thriving ever since! For many, it has taken totally different names & contexts, and runs mostly under the umbrella of 'The Economy' and 'Politics' very much thriving on inequalities! (including disputes, bickering & jealousy over all sorts of social contracts and legal rights) Cheating is so intertwined with our lifestyle, many in fact now recognise it as our moral imperative and birth right! Just like in the animal kingdom, it's like trying to explain to a Lion why he ended up eating his own cubs?…Humans reverting to the essence of existence where 'Ethics' and 'Morality' are simply freaks of nature, rather than Nature itself…It's actually pretty sad when contemplated at such primary addictive impulses, reflecting a 'contained', yet chaotic modern times behaviour and current apparent 'sophisticated' understanding.