Presenting the best argument for ethics

[prof]

Damn fine idea by the way prof I have more money than sense, and I am wondering what to do with the capital. Helping out my fellow man seems a rational solution in regards to the above. I will of course do so in my own time, I hate having more money than sense, I wish I had more sense than money, time will out.

It takes a good mind to recognize a fine idea! The very fact that you are at an Ethics Forum shows that you already had good sense, and an impulse to make the world a better place.

I have, in an earlier post, suggested good ways to invest money so as to improve world society. And have you read M.C. Katz - BASIC ETHICS yet? http://www.myqol.com/wadeharvey/PDFs/BASIC%20ETHICS.pdf Just skip over the technical parts if they bore you....
One very good use of funds is to back the profit-sharing principle, that we find in worker-owned enterprises, as well as in those firms enlightened enough to have instituted some form of 'gain sharing'.


Incidentally, I made my nest-egg via the stock market also, although I am aware that money does not bring security, it helps relieve some of the sadness. Life is still a struggle, and we will never leave this world alive. "The only true security is to adapt to insecurity!"

Yet in their quest for security people pursue money.... This explains a lot since human beings have a need for security. {Even Voice of Time would agree to that.}Striving to make money, though, often leads to corrupt practices - conduct that is unethical and immoral. .........Something to think about...

[Blaggard]

Yes Doc I know we both have a similar sort of ethical basis. I will probably at some point give all the meaningless cash I have made away, to people who need it far more than I. It's just figuring out what to do with such things that takes time, I like Karitas, the love of your fellow man, aka Charity, so it'll no doubt go to those who need it most. And me who needs it least will feel better about actually doing something to help other people, so everyone wins. There's no such thing as absolute altruism or any such thing as a selfless man, but who cares, nonetheless if it helps people well you done something more than the usual place holders that are the usual people.
I made money doc and a truck load, I seem to have a talent for it, and don't believe it should be wasted, and now I have made a shed load I know what to do with it. I gave my relations thousands of pounds at Christmas so they might have a better one, I felt good about doing that. Anyone who has money should IMHO spread it around, the pricks who keep it locked up in bank vaults so that it only helps them, well...

I don't feel I should be lauded for doing what is right nor do I seek anyone to tell me I am doing the right thing, nor do I care if they tell me otherwise; nor do I feel in any way, giving away a lot of money to people to help them should be lauded. I just feel I think that doing what is right is all I have to do. Let each man or woman's soul be his or her own.

It sounds no doubt trite, but I think trite is as trite does.