Common Sense 101. I could see no other venue that needs as much discussion as the concept of common sense and wisdom. I do freely admit here though that this is not my preffered method of discourse, I enjoy the conversationalist approach to any where it is one person writing what they think with no other input from others; for how are we to know we are working towards the good if we have no barometers of knowledge to guide us.
As all blogs do, I am sure this will become my own little rant forum, this is not what I intend at the present time, but how do i succeed where so many more knowledgeable than I have failed.
Common Sense is something you would suppose all living things have an abundance of( Don’t Start Laughing Yet), yet in this day and age common sense seems to be dwindling among those of us that consider our selves to be at the top of the food chain. This is not going to be a blog pointing out the common errors in judgement that you have come accustomed to when supposedly knowledgeable people discuss this topic. I will not be talking about dumb crooks( well not the common ones atleast). What i will be attempting to do is bring to light the hidden mistakes in common sense that most of us are either ignorant of or prefer not to talk and think about.
Over this past weekend i witnessed a display that for lack of better words made my sick. what is this event you might ask that can so affect a man just by the sheer sight of it, well it is the act of panhandling. while most of you are right now thinking about your typical panhandler. A person of some sanitary questions that is doing nothing more than standing or sitting about asking people to spare some change so as they might eat or perhaps even return home that night with something to help provide for a desolate family. Well these panhandlers are not the ones I am, atleast this time, sickened by. The act I viewed was three high school age students standing on a street corner begging for money for their favorite charity.
Oh wait I know what you are all thinking well that is common place and your right perhaps as common as the scenerio listed above. Does this make it right though? Now before you start to think even less about me than most people already do let me enlighten you to my view points before you judge me for my harshness.
I am a firm supporter of charitable work. This is where i run into a moral and ethical conflict with the events, while I am a supporter of charitable work, I, in no way condone charitable panhandling. The difference is just a simple matter of common sense. Work is exactly that, Work, not standing on a street corner with your hand or bucket or boot or what ever tool you wish to use to collect your unearned monies thrust into the windows of vehicles caught at a traffic light.
Let us look at the lessons this teaches our youths by involving them in these kind of actions. These young adults who are living their lives in a country that is overcome with welfare and large amounts of government support for individuals not willing to work for themselves. This is the lesson i most fear that is being implied on our future, IT IS EASIER TO BEG FOR MONEY THAN IT IS TO EARN IT. This is an unnacceptable lesson for any one of any age to learn at any time (sorry to all the liberals out there who got the government to buy them a pc so they could read blogs). This is where I run into difficulty in writing a blog, due to the fact that no discourse can be advanced without reaching levels of agreement thru out the project. So I am going to assume that those of you who are still reading are in atleast partial aggreement with me.
We shall stay the course on this path and discuss the virtue of panhandling, most people would agree that for many a good reason the act of panhandling is either illegal or atleast highly frowned upon in most cities and towns. This my friends is due to the ideals that this country was founded upon. The American Dream ( for a man willing to work the opportunties in this country are boundless). However these same governmental institutions that have made panhandling illegal also have written loopholes in to allow certain groups to be able to recieve permits to legitimize this act. How can this be possible?
