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The pointless appeal to morality - breaking the habit!

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass
I expect a review of historical life-styles is peppered with the plaintive cry of persecuted and abused citizens many of whom variously suffered under the regimes they found themselves subjected to.

The universal cry for fairness and equity is a connecting constant across the mists of time.

Studies invariably show a consistent disparity between the "have's and have not's." It seems our destiny is fixed and this stark observation represents humanities steady state condition.

The more the oppressed cry for fairness the more inequities stay the same... or even worsen.

Still... the appeals are made for morality, as though somehow the few individuals with the amassed wealth will unleash it to the benefit of others. By and large such appeal is pointless.

Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over
 Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels
An explosion in extreme wealth and income is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world’s ability to tackle poverty, Oxfam warned today in a briefing published ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos next week.
The $240 billion net income in 2012 of the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to make extreme poverty history four times over, according Oxfam’s report ‘The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all.’ It is calling on world leaders to curb today’s income extremes and commit to reducing inequality to at least 1990 levels.
The richest one per cent has increased its income by 60 per cent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process.
Oxfam warned that extreme wealth and income is not only unethical it is also economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive and environmentally destructive.
I am tempted to say, Yada, yada, yada....

It seems such appeals for morality are aimed at the entities whom have amassed obscene wealth, if examined carefully, it is easy to see the wealth came about because of immoral practices and a complete disregard for ethics, corruption has no moral fiber.

One can assume then... that appealing to the afflicted, (for such behavior is symptomatic,) makes no sense whatsoever.

The time to intervene is before all the marbles make it into the bag, not after. Cheating is best dealt with before or during the game, not after the game is won.

Psychopathic behavior cannot be modified through plaintive appeals for morality. 

I say psychopathic because other studies link immoral and unethical behavior to many captains of industry, commerce and governance, in other words inequity is built into the system and has no preemptive challenge.

Choose your nut - Disturbing Link Between Psychopathy And Leadership

The moral person can equally pursue wealth but invariably ensures prosperity is shared... without the need of appeals to do so.

Dealing with corruption is difficult once the corrupt are positioned to "buy off" any attempt to prosecute.

Rigged, fleeced, duped and scoffed at - Is EVERY Market Rigged?

My suggestion to OXFAM and anyone else interested in fair and equitable treatment of the underprivileged is this....

Appealing and grovelling to specimens who display obvious traits of psychopathic behavior is not only absurd it is probably counterproductive, such twisted  elitist power-mongers actually relish and "get off" on the misery they contribute to, thus righteous indignation is an enabler of said behavior.

These people have no morals other than to succeed, succeed, succeed. The more they do succeed, the more power they have to rig the game for their further success.

Until we are prepared to prosecute corruption with meaningful consequence we will continue with pointless appeals to those without conscious--it is well past the time we break that habit.

It is time to bring equality into the prosecution of law... equality of opportunity will result.



Stay tuned...
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