The Ethics of Ethics (being unethical is ethical)

People die, it’s a known fact. If you are afraid to profit from that fact then in the words of Tom Flanagan and the ethics of Ezra Levant you just aren’t manly enough. You are probably a lefty who thinks torture is wrong as well. You probably are also against assassinating people that disagree with you. Even Christians, Jews and Muslims condone war so get with the program, there’s money to be made in the name of God!

Lying is profitable. Telling the truth; not so much. If the tobacco industry caved in to the truth decades ago millions of dollars of profit would have been lost. It only cost lives and millions health care tax dollars. In fact, all that money spent on caner treatment made many more people rich so smoking is ethical because it’s good for our economy. Money is valuable; human life, not so much. (Human life is valuable as a labour source and cannon fodder.) Therefore lying is ethical because we all know the economy is more important than the ecology and human life. So we can’t breath, there’s no fresh water to drink, our food is full of poison but at least we had a profitable last quarter! We have been lied to at every level from “ethical oil” and “war is peace” to “milk makes bones”.

For those who haven’t followed Stephen Harper’s every move his oily philosophy is based on the teachings of Leo Strauss. They feel that people are too stupid to figure things out on their own so lying to protect them is good, ethical, it’s even necessary! He lies to us for our own good and for the profit of his rich friends. That’s the new ethic: The Noble Lie. It’s for you own good.

Oil has never been “ethical”. From its very beginning it has been fraught with murder, deceit and war. To call something “ethical” because it is not as bad as something else is not only unethical but it is also immoral. It’s like calling a child molester ethical because he gave his victims candy before he abused them. Changing the name from “tar” to “oil” sands does not make it any cleaner. To let human life and the health of the planet get in the way of profit is now considered unethical.

So expect your government to lie to you. It’s the only ethical thing they can do because admitting the truth at this point would cost our economy millions and we all know that money is worth more than human life. To admit that our banking / financial system is fraud would cost us billions in profit. Keeping the lie alive will only cost us lives. In fact keeping the lie alive will make the rich even richer by profiting from war.

Being unethical is being ethical. To put human life and health ahead of profit is unethical. If you can’t handle that "truth is a lie" it’s because you’re not manly enough. Don’t you know it’s not ethical to be a lefty, feminist or believe in social justice! That’s as unethical as believing in Human Rights.

Unethical is new ethical.

NOT!