So for day three of BEDA I'd like to focus on morality. I find is so interesting that life is full of contradictions and shades of black and white. We'd like to believe that the world is black and white, right and wrong, good and evil...but when is the line ever drawn so clearly?
I work at a movie theater so one of the things I deal with constantly is people sneaking in. Of course when it's related to me directly, it feels so personal and I feel so smug when the cops give them the "this is stealing you could go to jail" speech. But just last weekend I got into Megacon without paying. Isn't it the same thing? Why is it alright for me to do this, but not allow the other? The truth is, it isn't right. I didn't have to lie and nobody really asked me to prove that I belonged there, but I knew that many around me spent money I didn't. Yet, I feel no guilt. At the same time, I would never slip some money from my drawer at work or at this point in my life pocket an item at a shop I didn't pay for.
I'll give you another example, say I worked at Universal. I'd sell those tickets in a heartbeat. But I work at a movie theater and I get free tickets. I don't sell those, or I don't sell the free movie posters I get because I feel like it would be shady. What's the difference? At what point is it unacceptable.
Shades of gray. The human mind is a funny thing. Everything consists of double standards.
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