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Weekly Ethical Reflection

8 June to 15 June

Stupid Question

What would become of us men, if we all stopped abusing, agitating, arguing, assaulting, avoiding, bashing, battering, battling, belittling, berating, blustering, blackmailing, blagging, boasting, bombing, bragging, breaking, bribing, brooding, brutalising, bullying, burning, butting, carping, chasing, cheating, clowning, colluding, competing, complaining, conspiring, contaminating, corrupting, crawling, cutting, damaging, deceiving, defaming, defiling, degrading, dehumanising, deluding, demanding, demeaning, denying, despising, despoiling, destroying, deriding, dictating, discriminating, disregarding, dominating, drinking, drug-taking, ducking and diving, duping, embezzling, enslaving, escaping, evading, exaggerating, exploding, exploiting, extorting, fantasising, fighting, fooling, gambling, gawping, griping, grabbing, grumping, grunting, harassing, hating, hiding, hijacking, hitting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, ignoring, indulging, interfering, intimidating, invading, irritating, insulting, jabbing, jailing, jibing, jilting, joking, judging, justifying, kicking, kidding, kidnapping, killing, lazing, leering, lusting, lying, maiming, messing, misleading, mugging, murdering, neglecting, objecting, obsessing, obstructing, offending, oppressing, patronising, pestering, philandering, pillaging, pimping, pirating, playing, poking, polluting, pretending, profiteering, punching, punishing, quarrelling, raping, regressing, retaliating, ridiculing, shocking, shooting, shouting, slapping, slashing, smacking, snarling, sneaking, sniping, sneering, snubbing, soiling, speeding, spoiling, spitting, spying, squashing, squeezing, stabbing, stealing, strutting, sulking, suppressing, swearing, taking, teasing, terrifying, terrorising, thumping, toadying, torturing, trafficking, traumatising, tricking, twisting, undermining, usurping, vandalising, vanquishing, violating, vulgarising, war-mongering, wasting, womanising, yanking, yelling and zapping?

Stupid question but what's your answer, mate?

A. Carpenter

 
 
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