It feels like the clock got turned back at least 100 years or I woke up in a bad dream. What good does it do anyone if no one has any money to buy anything, or access to health care, or school, or retirement, or clean energy, air, water and food?
If you need money, you need to jump on the war wagon. In the last fiscal year, the Dept. of Defense paid out 315 billion dollars to contracts aiding military efforts. Corporations make lotsa dough off war. This was true with the Vietnam war, as well, and one of the reasons it went on, and on, and on.
The progress of social justice is slow and measured. Its growth depends on an increasing number of us becoming aware of the truth and consequences of our actions.
I believe that it is morally wrong to allow our wanton desires to interfere with the basic needs and interests of other sentient beings.
I believe the physical and psychological abuse – confinement, social deprivation, mutilation, genetic and reproductive manipulation, and profit exploitation – imposed by us on other animals is morally wrong.
I believe the suggestion that the exploitation of other sentient beings by humans can be achieved without cruelty, violence, or injustice is false and misleading.
As an advocate for all life, committed to compassion and justice, I refuse to take part in the exploitation of other sentient beings or to collaborate with those caught up in such injustice.
I pledge to do my best to live a life that conveys a clear, sincere and uncompromised message that is free of resentment, fear, exploitation, anger, cynicism, and manipulation.
Furthermore, I pledge to continue to support a broad range of nonviolent initiatives and programs that will hopefully one day eliminate the needless pain and suffering we inflict upon all the many wonderful creatures with whom we share this planet.
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It feels like the clock got turned back at least 100 years or I woke up in a bad dream. What good does it do anyone if no one has any money to buy anything, or access to health care, or school, or retirement, or clean energy, air, water and food?
If you need money, you need to jump on the war wagon. In the last fiscal year, the Dept. of Defense paid out 315 billion dollars to contracts aiding military efforts. Corporations make lotsa dough off war. This was true with the Vietnam war, as well, and one of the reasons it went on, and on, and on.
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