You are right, there is always the question of whether you are in some way being forced or pushed into doing the right things or whether you are doing it because of your own decision.

I guess it all comes down to the various things we absorb as we are growing up. If you are lucky, your parents, and other influences, teach you about the difference between the right and the wrong things, not just by labeling them, but rather by explaining what makes them right or wrong. If you are even luckier, they also bring you up encouraging you to think for yourself.

If you receive both these gifts when you are young, you hopefully grow up with a strong sense of what is right and wrong for you, and an even stronger sense that nothing is ever written in stone. Once you have these things, I don’t think it adds much extra thinking to do in your life. After a certain point these desicions and the thinking process of right vs wrong become an instinct, but one that is thoughtful rather than blind.

As far as taking the time to analyse the small issues of life, I enjoy it. I ask myself these same questions. Writing about them is just a step on the path to answering them for myself.

Samir

Anyway, as far as the whole environmental “debate” goes, my very problem with it is that it has been reduced to a debate. I don’t think too highly of stunchly “green” types or of strict “non-believers”. The fact that important matters such as these are decided by “beliefs” is the ultimate joke. If human beings would stop being so attached to their beliefs & affiliations, and instead bothered to use that large mass of ganglions thet’ve been given for free to indulge in some actual independent thought once in a while, maybe we could finally start using the term “Human Civilisation” with some seriousness.

Until that day, I’m just at this big game whithout being affiliated to either club of “supporters”, and I’m refusing to do the stupid Wave on cue just because someone told me to.

Don’t know if I agree with the title of philisopher, but I loved “poetically prone philosopher”. Thank you.

Samir

In a meanwhile, governments of the world are slowly encroaching on individual’s rights with more taxes, and ridiculously invasive, anti-business ‘green’ laws – cap-n- trade comes to mind. Many people are jumping on the band wagon, and cashing in on Save the Earth madness with astonishing speed, while using catchy, make-you-feel-good slogans.
Nice to see for a change that creative artist, poetically prone philosopher uses common sense, fair approach in this matter,and doesn’t shy away from his opinion.

Magali