Our Ethical Creeds

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
Yes, I am surrounded by despondent people due to the nature of my job. Daily actually.
Despair is not a character flaw.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Likewise.

I know we shouldn't have favourites, when it comes to clients, but a few years back a chap i had a lot of time for threw himself under a train. He was in a very unhappy place, despite the people around him doing their best to offer support. I was very much saddened by his suicide, but didn't feel he had let anybody down by his actions. I wish i could have done more, but understand his despair became too much for him to bear.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
None of my family members nor friends have ever contemplated or committed suicide. Has your experience been different or similar?

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
That's the hope, but of course, not always effective.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
To be honest, i think that is quite a bold statement to make. I'm glad to hear none of your family or friends have committed suicide, but i don't think you (or anyone) can say with certainty that they haven't, at some point in their lives, contemplated it. - But then that is just the point. Suicide, or even the contemplation of suicide, is often a pe ...[text shortened]... 'inward' struggle that may never be evident to the people around, including family and friends.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
God's respect for human volition is not compromised by His omniscience and omnipotence because of His righteousness and justice.

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
That was a lot of blather. Then again, maybe the discussion had gone as far as it possibly could. 🙄

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
GD, I respect the Libertarian View as well as the Physician Assisted Euthanasia decision some terminally ill patients or their designated Health Proxy may choose; nonetheless, in my own view, God created your life and mine [and the lives of the rest human race since human history began] with an individual purpo ...[text shortened]... ing suicide?"
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No "worrying", BDP; simply an unwelcome statement of fact.

Respect the position of those in authority even when you don't respect them or their policies in the workplace or in any other applicable venue of life.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Respect the position of those in authority even when you don't respect them or their policies in the workplace or in any other applicable venue of life.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Respect the position of those in authority even when you don't respect them or their policies in the workplace or in any other applicable venue of life.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Respect the position of those in authority even when you don't respect them or their policies in the workplace or in any other applicable venue of life.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby (OP: Page 1)
Our Ethical Creeds

“The Paradoxical Commandments:

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”

(Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution:
Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council)
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Your "Ethical Creed"?
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Reminder: The only topic of this thread is "Our Ethical Creeds" which excludes
ad hoc attacks on other Red Hot Pawn members. Please comply. Thank you.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Reminder: The only topic of this thread is "Our Ethical Creeds" which excludes ad hoc attacks on other Red Hot Pawn members. Please comply. Thank you.[/b]

Originally posted by Kewpie
If "Grampy Bobby believes it, it must be "the truth" and those who reject it accept "a lie." That's the most bigoted, narrow-minded, egotistical statement I have ever read, and what I say in response is, how dare you take the God role upon yourself!

Using a person's happiness in the birth of a child to make snide comments about suicide is obscenely bad behaviour. Even for you, GB.

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