hugepedro wrote:
rescueman wrote:
hugepedro wrote:
Many of my clients are government agencies, even foreign governments. I wouldn’t stand up in front of an audience at the Pentagon and say I think their budget should be cut in half.
And it's a still further breach of integrity to refuse to address strongly-held beliefs simply because it might compromise your business opportunities.
If I felt that the Pentagon was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world (as MLK did, and I do), then I would say that to their faces and would refuse to do any business with them for personal gain.
For that precise reason, I have refused to pay federal income taxes for 32 years (after having been arrested protesting the launching of the first Trident nuclear submarine in 1979), and I will state that publicly to the IRS, the FBI and the Pentagon.
My moral stance has meant that my work possibilities and earning potential have been severely limited and I have had to get by on a subsistence income at constant risk of prosecution by the powers that be. But that's the price one pays for integrity. And it's worth every penny of it.
Kudos to you on standing on your morals, but I don’t feel that way about the Pentagon, I just think they spend too much. No moral/business conflict there.
And I was helping the South African government improve their justice system processes, which would make them more fair to all races. So not only was it not a moral conflict, but it was an opportunity to bring my moral beliefs to influence in a positive way.
One can act on their morals by disengaging, as you have, or one can act by engaging and changing things, and there is no moral conflict in doing so. Personally, I welcome opportunities where I can actually improve things instead of standing outside the fence yelling at people.
You don’t pay taxes? You fucking goldbricking freeloader. You’re welcome for the free ride the rest of us are giving you.
Huge, you should google this guy. He's unfrickenbelievable.