Most people will never know the sacrifices others make on their behalf to maintain safety and freedom; freedom doesn't come for free - lives pay for it. Some of these operations are overt and some covert as you say. The problem is that some of those operations and situations are done for the wrong reasons, criminal reasons or just out of human greed and that's often why people reject them on a wholesale basis. That is their prerogative of course, but millions of people sleep soundly at night (and enjoy freedom) because others put their lives on the line.
If we are kind to people most people would reciprocate. I don't see many cases where someone does something bad to a person and the person will return with kindness
Kindness is indeed a good policy...but people doing bad things to people like me don't get kindness back. I know there's some who will judge me for saying this but it is my way. I'm not talking about nonsensical things like Hive downvotes or name calling, I mean bad things. Again, sometimes it takes someone to make a stand, to stand up and say, that's wrong and I will make it right. Fortunately for the Jews and others people did that in World War Two, just to give one example.
Anyway, thanks for commenting. This is a little off topic for this post but in truth I think it's all sort of interconnected right? Thanks for bringing these things up.
Ya there is no doubt there are some circumstances where it's done for the wrong reasons as you said. If it keeps the world running and peaceful I think it's ok since most of us will never know whats happening anyways unless they choose to let us know.
Yes. I feel the same. I treat others how I wanted to be treated but if someone really does something bad I'd just cut them off. I wouldn't do something bad in return though I feel karma will handle it. fortunately I never got into that drama on Hive.
No problem for commenting it's good to exercise my thoughts and also hear what others think about their own opinions on a topic. Ya it's a bit off topic but I feel it's kind of linked in the sense that there's a lot of things being done in the back that most people are aware of or may not.
In this case, that lady that shared her credit card stuff; I guess doesn't seem to be aware of the people behind that steal peoples credit card information and steal their money. Just like how most people are unaware of all the sacrifices some people make for us to live in a peaceful world
Most people are simply unaware of the dangers, or don't think it could possibly happen to them. It can though.
Maybe there's not enough education on this~. Just like how when we are taught not to do drugs in school and taught sex education. Maybe schools need to include some basic class or lesson on the dangers of exposing our information on the internet?
I agree, there's comments to that effect in this post by me and others.
Schools don't really teach life lessons though, if they did they'd include some classes about financial matters, credit debt and all. The information is out there though, and I think the onus is on the individual to some degree; always relying on someone else is lazy in my opinion, but people are becoming less self-reliant these days, which is a problem. Also, what's a parents role if not to warn of potential risks and ways to avoid them?
hmmmm yes this really should be included in the curriculum. It should be a basic life education. Honestly, there should be classes in middle/high school that teach these basic life things like saving money, protecting our identity, etc. But as you said there are bad people in the world and the system was probably designed this way to have the world work as intended. Like we need people to be those garbage cleaners, mow lawns, house cleaning maids, plumbers and other dirty work sadly. I think in most cases if these people had the option they probably wouldn't choose to work these jobs I could be wrong though. There may be a small outlier of people that would actually love working these jobs.
As you said, parents should also play a role in teaching this. I'll definitely teach my future kid(s) all the important life lessons and mistakes I've made but in the end it'll be up to them to listen and take in what I say lol. There is a trend though that seems to be "i know mom I know dad I already know" - and I definitely fell under this category in the past; I won't try to pretend that wasn't me at a point of my life.
That's why I think it's better to have it taught in schools as well so it can reinforce how important it is. Sometimes a third party is needed to convince someone that hey this is actually important or worse case we learn through experiencing it which would not be ideal but would be super effective.
And a lot of the time people still won't listen preferring to do whatever it is they want to do, irrespective of the implications. That's pretty obvious to see.
haha well we've been there before no? well i can't speak on your behalf but I've definitely went down one of those rabbit holes.
IIn some cases it's good. For example there's those that prove others wrong. They get told their business idea is shit and they'll never make it and they end up generating over million dollar in revenue per year