Wednesday 12 November 2014

Misplaced Ethics, Maybe.

There’s a shop in Ashbourne with big banners across both windows proclaiming:

Closing Down Sale
Everything Must Go

I would be most reluctant to go in and buy anything. I would assume that the business was folding due to having fallen on hard times, and that buying something at a knock-down price simply because I could would amount to taking advantage of someone’s misfortune.

I suspect that my lack of ruthlessness probably has a lot to do with why I never amounted to very much, since life does tend to reward the ruthless. I’m more than happy to grab opportunities if I’m comfortable with them, but opportunism is quite another matter.

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