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The Quality of Integrity

Honesty is a characteristic and a value that most people consider a requisite for successful interactions and moral fundamentality. When someone gives us reason to mistrust them, the damage is usually permanent. Unfortunately, our society rarely rewards honesty. Most of the media we consume is laced with a subliminal context and an ulterior motive. Either to inform, persuade or entertain, and of these three the agenda of the publisher is undoubtedly influenced by money or popularity, succumbing to both in traditional business models. The popularity brings in the bacon and popular topics generate conversations which lead to new ideas designed to profit on the current affairs. So everyone sort of wins, especially where information and entertainment are involved, but except when there is a deficiency of integrity. As consumers, we're complaisant whilst business provides us with our expectations, however as soon as there is a sign of a breach in that exchange, its quite possible to bri

Perspective of a Buddhist Hedonist

If it is said to be negligible that one should not become jaded about living for your passion, then can any of us really have too much of a good thing? Playing with your children or pulling an 'all-nighter' undoubtedly incurs averse health affects! Sometimes the things we love are bad for our health, such as convenience food, cigarettes and some cosmetic products containing potentially harmful toxins; should you care to perform an analysis of all the chemicals, the notion begins to feel a bit nauseating. On the other hand, manufacturers are constantly investing their profits into redesigning their product to deliver an innocuous result, organic to the generation whom secure their household brand names. Supplementary studies such as foreign languages or skills compositional i.e. musical instruments is said to be a benefactor in pleasuring potential guests or private time in solitude, but additionally postpones the assailment of diseases which effect the memory.  There is pleasur