Clean dishes are the good that make washing up have value — unenlightened
How would you define with exactitude and clarity what ethical work is? What should we teach the young generation as praise-worthy labour? — DiegoT
I actually find washing up therapeutic. — Andrew4Handel
I would rather define unethical work. Work that makes other people waste their money, work that damages the environment. Work that exploits the environment in an unsustainable way. Work that is cruelly monotonous. And more. — Andrew4Handel
Having a job means you earn a living ethically. It may be boring or difficult but it isn't immoral. — TheMadFool
Martin Luther called the work of lay people (whatever that was) as holy as the work of monks, nuns, and priests. Religious work (preaching, praying, serving) is holy, but so is bricklaying holy; so is milking cows holy; so is mining and smelting iron holy; so is teaching school, and all manner of work. That what the Protestant Work Ethic is about: The work of man is the work of God — Bitter Crank
I would not want to do a job or start a business that just harmed the environment and was not sustainable just in order to become rich and give people a short pleasure from a disposable item that then remained in the environment as a pollutant.
Also Jehovah Witnesses in Germany refused to support the Nazis and their war aims and so were persecuted and sent to concentration camps. I think that is a good stance to take but dangerous, by not contributing to something you see as highly immoral — Andrew4Handel
Not every unemployed person turns to crime. Some resort to begging and in the past that was even a religious order. Now we have state dependents and welfare recipients., I find picking tobacco leaves better than mugging someone in an alley. — TheMadFool
nyway, I find picking tobacco leaves better than mugging someone in an alley. — TheMadFool
The problem seems to me is the proliferation of unethical jobs where as you say in the past most jobs were less ethically suspect. Should we resign ourselves to propping up the status quo. — Andrew4Handel
You're welcome to come and do mine any time. I get heartily sick of washing up - and there's so damn much of it. It's a great mystery to me how two people (myself and my wife) can use 15 glasses, 10 mugs, 6 plates, 4 dishes, 5 pans, and dozens of knives, forks and spoons, all in the space of a few hours. I can only assume some kind of entropy is at work.I actually find washing up therapeutic. — Andrew4Handel
People expect him to work because they have to work, and they feel its unfair for someone to never have to work — Clark Callander
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