IMMORAL
People play life as if it’s a game, whereas each step is a real
step. The shock of being unable to control what happens, especially
the tragedies, overwhelms one. Someone dies; someone leaves;
someone lies. There is sickness, misery, loneliness, betrayal. One
is alone not just at the end but all the time. One tries to
camouflage pain and failure. One wants to believe that poverty can
be cured by wealth, cruelty by kindness; but neither is true. The
orphan is always an orphan.
The worst immorality is in apathy, a deadening of caring about
others, not because they have some special claim but because they
have no claim at all.
The worst immorality is in disinterest, indifference, so that the
lone person in pain has no importance; one need not feel an urgency
about rescuing the suffering person.
The worst immorality is in dressing up to go out in order not to
have to think about those who are hungry, without shelter, without
protection.
The worst immorality is in living a trivial life because one is
afraid to face any other kind of life–a despairing life or an
anguished life or a twisted and difficult life.
The worst immorality is in living a mediocre life, because kindness
rises above mediocrity always, and not to be kind locks one into
an ethos of boredom and stupidity.
The worst immorality is in imitating those who give nothing.
The worst immorality is in conforming so that one fits in, smart or
fashionable, mock-heroic or the very best of the very same.
The worst immorality is accepting the status quo because one is
afraid of gossip against oneself.
The worst immorality is in selling out simply because one is
afraid.
The worst immorality is a studied ignorance, a purposeful refusal
to see or know.
The worst immorality is living without ambition or work or pushing
the rest of us along.
The worst immorality is being timid when there is no threat.
The worst immorality is refusing to push oneself where one is
afraid to go.
The worst immorality is not to love actively.
The worst immorality is to close down because heartbreak has worn
one down.
The worst immorality is to live according to rituals, rites of
passage that are predetermined and impersonal.
The worst immorality is to deny someone else dignity.
The worst immorality is to give in, give up.
The worst immorality is to follow a road map of hate drawn by
white supremacists and male supremacists.
The worst immorality is to use another person’s body in the passing
of time.
The worst immorality is to inflict pain.
The worst immorality is to be careless with another person’s heart
and soul.
The worst immorality is to be stupid, because it’s easy.
The worst immorality is to repudiate one’s own uniqueness in order
to fit in.
The worst immorality is to set one’s goals so low that one must
crawl to meet them.
The worst immorality is to hurt children.
The worst immorality is to use one’s strength to dominate or
control.
The worst immorality is to surrender the essence of oneself for
love or money.
The worst immorality is to believe in nothing, do nothing, achieve
nothing.
The worst immoralities are but one, a single sin of human
nothingness and stupidity. “Do no harm” is the counterpoint to
apathy, indifference, and passive aggression; it is the fundamental
moral imperative. “Do no harm” is the opposite of immoral. One must
do something and at the same time do no harm. “Do no harm” remains
the hardest ethic.