Two down, five to go. I introduced you to lust and gluttony, today we pass the baton to greed and sloth. If by now you still don’t have a clue what the hell I’m on about, read this first.
Greed and sloth are fun sins, as they are much more difficult to spot than the previous two. Quite paradoxically however, they might be the most prevalent ones out there; especially greed, as money seems to tie with sex for the title of best driving force for the simple (99,3%) people.
Greed
True greed is immensely difficult to spot, yet omnipresent within us all. Because of this, we will limit it to only the most extreme forms of greed. Imagine yourself the president of a starting company. By some fluke of fortune (not your skill, mind you) you actually develop into a big corporation and start making the big bucks. Soon you are successful nation-wide. The next thing you do is start monopolising whatever it is you do, let’s say you own a construction company and you are only one of five of such companies around in the country. Before you know it, you have already made deals with the remaining four presidents to start artificially raising the constructions cost. A few years later, when you have retired to Dubai to live on your own private island while using two helicopters to travel to the mainland where you cruise around in one of your customised twenty cars each priced little over half a million. What does this make you? A smart business(wo)man to say the least, and maybe even a little happy. Unfortunately for you, deep down you’re still a corrupt son of a bitch who made all those heaps of money over the backs of hard working people.
Think my example is far fetched? Think again, similar schemes have existed in first world countries like the Netherlands for years.
Conclusion; strip them of their wealth and use the money to train an adequate police force to prevent fraud and bribery from taking place in the first place. Also, the persons themselves should be considered for forced organ donation.
Sloth
Sloth is great. Sloth is everywhere. There is so much laziness in the world that you’d think that it is a part nature. Much to my dismay, this is true to some extent; any animal will try to spend as less energy as possible on any given task by instinct, provided the outcome will keep them alive, able to reproduce and/or well fed. However, we humans have come a far way ever since we lived in the trees and are no longer bound purely by our instincts but have found logic and reason to fill our minds. Soon we were able to store food and basically create an infinite amount of it (first world countries only). So with logic in mind, there’s was no longer a reason to sit on your fat ass whole day watching tv or wasting time in some worthless cubicle pretending to work.
Another example we literally find everywhere; scooters. Scooters suck. 99% of the people riding them have no reason to do so whatsoever. In fact, the only excuse is when your place of work or education is more than 1 hour of cycling removed from your residence. And even then, you might want to consider moving. If it is less, get up and start using those God-given legs. Next time I see some fat middle-aged woman riding a scooter through town loaded with groceries, I’ll follow her home and slash her tires.
Conclusion; ten laps around the world would be an appropriate punishment. Without motorised assistance ofcourse.
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Updates;
Greed and Sloth (4/7)Â <-Â you are here
Vanity and the conclusion (7/7)
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