Seven Social Sins
From what I've read, the list was put together by a Frederick Lewis Donaldson, a prominent vicar in the English Anglican Church, in 1925. Gandhi was sufficiently impressed that he published them in his "Young India" newspaper that same year. and it is said that he gave a copy of the list to his grandson Arun just before he was assassinated which is probably how it came to be associated with Gandhi.
It has been retitled in numerous ways including memes calling it "7 blunders of the world leading to violence." I doubt Donaldson saw it in quite that way but I don't know.
Seven Social Sins
Wealth without work does too often produce damaged and destructive people to themselves and/or others. How many times have we heard of this or that person receiving a massive fortune by luck and squandering it away within a fairly short time? It could be one of several reasoned arguments for not paying reparations to people descended from another time for instance.
Pleasure without conscience leads to additions, law breaking, destroyed relationships, and unconscionable vulgar and obscene entertainment to children et al.
Knowledge without character can cause people to use information in destructive, harmful, dishonest, malicious ways.
Commerce without morality can cause sellers to misrepresent their products in malicious ways, manipulate markets to unethically destroy their competitors, to market their product dishonorably with disastrous results. (Example: Nestle giving their baby formula to poor African mothers and then charging them for it once their breast milk dried up. When most could not afford the formula the carnage in the health and well being of babies was massive.)
Science without humanity could be any number of things. Germans using Jewish victims for their medical experiments for instance. Or draconian laws, rules, regulations, requirements supposedly to combat climate change but that harm people far more than any climate change is likely to do to anybody.
Religion without sacrifice is harder to define, but I believe those who profess but do not live their religion are likely going to do more harm than any good.
Politics without principle No good can ever come of politics exercised ruthlessly and mercilessly in order to win to achieve a goal at the expense of others.
From what I've read, the list was put together by a Frederick Lewis Donaldson, a prominent vicar in the English Anglican Church, in 1925. Gandhi was sufficiently impressed that he published them in his "Young India" newspaper that same year. and it is said that he gave a copy of the list to his grandson Arun just before he was assassinated which is probably how it came to be associated with Gandhi.
It has been retitled in numerous ways including memes calling it "7 blunders of the world leading to violence." I doubt Donaldson saw it in quite that way but I don't know.
Seven Social Sins
- Wealth without work.
- Pleasure without conscience.
- Knowledge without character.
- Commerce without morality.
- Science without humanity.
- Religion without sacrifice.
- Politics without principle.
Wealth without work does too often produce damaged and destructive people to themselves and/or others. How many times have we heard of this or that person receiving a massive fortune by luck and squandering it away within a fairly short time? It could be one of several reasoned arguments for not paying reparations to people descended from another time for instance.
Pleasure without conscience leads to additions, law breaking, destroyed relationships, and unconscionable vulgar and obscene entertainment to children et al.
Knowledge without character can cause people to use information in destructive, harmful, dishonest, malicious ways.
Commerce without morality can cause sellers to misrepresent their products in malicious ways, manipulate markets to unethically destroy their competitors, to market their product dishonorably with disastrous results. (Example: Nestle giving their baby formula to poor African mothers and then charging them for it once their breast milk dried up. When most could not afford the formula the carnage in the health and well being of babies was massive.)
Science without humanity could be any number of things. Germans using Jewish victims for their medical experiments for instance. Or draconian laws, rules, regulations, requirements supposedly to combat climate change but that harm people far more than any climate change is likely to do to anybody.
Religion without sacrifice is harder to define, but I believe those who profess but do not live their religion are likely going to do more harm than any good.
Politics without principle No good can ever come of politics exercised ruthlessly and mercilessly in order to win to achieve a goal at the expense of others.
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