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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071204113746AA49lCk&r=w

This question is in response to an answer I got on a previous question (the above link). Tell me what you think.

If competition is wrong then is it wrong to play sports, compete for a job interview, American Idol, video games, card/board games, etc.?

My answer is this, however I’d like to hear Answers users ideas on this topic.

What are the positive things and negative things that happen during each action?

Sports…how many raves and players getting shot have occurred because of competition. How many home disputes have been over someone watching sports to much?

Interviews…how many times have you stepped on people’s toes just to make sure you’re hired?

American Idol…how many people are belittled all in the name of competition? Is this healthy as a society?

Video games…how many people try to commit acts of crime because a video game displayed it?

Games…family/friend disputes?
Is technology more important than your relationships with people or God (if you believe in Him)?

Competition is not wrong in itself. It depends on the side you choose and the reasons for why you choose those sides. Let’s take your examples one by one.

Sports:

This is not wrong for the players because they are simply having fun. Plus any fans are just supporting their teams so it is not wrong. The sin could come in if you think competition gives you the right of way to start cursing. Cursing is a sin, competition isn’t. So just be careful with how you do things.

Job Interviews:

How can people get a job if they can’t compete? Competition here is not wrong but yet again it is the context as to what you do during the interview. If you are bad mouthing another person to get the job then that is wrong. However if you simply are presenting yourself the best you can then it isn’t your fault if they hire you and not somebody else and vice versa. So competition here is not wrong yet again.

American Idol:

I don’t particularly like this show myself, but it’s not wrong in itself for the contestants. The contestants simply are doing the same as the job interviewers. They are trying to be the American Idol and make it in the music business. Yet again, if they are talking bad about someone else then it is wrong. However, if they are simply trying to present themself to the world, then it is okay.

Video games:

This is another thing I’m not much of a fan of. I’d rather be outside doing productive activities then play games. However, video games and board games can bring people together. If you are simply playing to have fun with a friend or family member it doesn’t matter because you’re just having fun. If you are doing something bad then it is wrong.

I bought a lot of action figures and sports equipment for my 7 year old son, but he greatly prefers drawing or painting landscapes, people, animals, etc to either of those activities. I also met with his teacher and she unfortunately told me he was the most creative kid in her class.

I hope it isn’t because he is gravitated towards a preverted lifestyle. I really don’t want my son growing up in sin , what can I do to curtail this kind of behavior and have him grow up to be normal so that he will be heterosexual and have a real job instead of an artist, which I can never accept?
Another thing to mention is that we have tried to take away a lot of the drawing material from him so that he can focus on the sports equipment, but then he just gets upset over this. How can we make sure that he doesn’t ask for these things all the time?

BAKA! BAKA BAKA BAKA! I am a male and a artist. a culinary artist but still an artist. the best artists in history were all male. but just because I am a artist does not mean that I am gay. I am NOT gay at all. I see that life style as a SIN aganist my GOD. let your son be an artist.

I have an uncle that is a great composer/musian in NY, that is a form of art it self. if your son wants to go into the feild of art then let him.

you are one of the worst BAKAs I have ever heard of.

How to differenciate right from wrong?
What must we consider when evaluating an action/inaction?
Should I consider my own benefits?
Or the benefits for my family?
And what about the benefits toward my groups (sports, job, school, city, nation, race, religion, style, any group to which I may belong, temporary or not)?
And the benefits for the Mankind… must also be considered?
What about if I consider all these questions at the same time? Would it make it easier to decide if an action/inaction is a good one?
But, what if it goes against my principles, my ideals, my moral, my sactisfaction… would it still be a good one? Is this also something to consider?
And if it hurts other living beings? Would it be important to have this in mind before acting/non-acting?
And what about if my action/inaction hurts Matter, Energy, Space and Time? Would it still be a good one?
And regarding God or Infinity, or Supreme Being, Alah, Jehovah, Eternity,… you name it; should I consider it?
The question is asked in the Spiritual sense. And of course any action/inaction produces a result.

The details are just to help me to put the question including all the possible ways to look at it. The question remains: How to say if it is a good action/inaction?
The two last questions:
Would anybody with a good sense aprove if I would polute rivers and air and Oceans? This wozuld be hurting Matter, as weel as if I would go out braking windows, cars, sign-posts… If I would live the cook and the lights on…, this wuld be hurting Energy; if I would be home doing nothing, just spend my Time and maybe even make you to waste your Time… would you aprove? would it be a good action? And if I misuse Space like puting order in a way that nobody else could use a comon Space, this would it be a good action? If I would allow somebody else to do it… would it be a good inaction?
The very Last Question:
What about if I create such a Nuclear Device that it would end all God’s creattion? Or, to be a little more spiritual… What if I start convince REALYY CONVINCE people that their God is not a good one that they should stop that crap and turn to my belief that my god woud be called ETERNITY for instance.

By the way I believe God is NEUTRAL. He is just God. He is not good, He is not Bad. He is just GOD. Just God!!!
I did not ask where can I find the answers… I wuld like to know if you agree with me and if, thinking the way I think, would be the best.

Regarding some anwers from Budhist people, I admire your philosophy. However as you put it, I shouldn’t hurt anybody. This is not totaly correct coz if I have a brother who i.e. assaults the houses of your family and friends, I have to hurt him by stoping him weather calling the Police or taking some other action. If somebody points me a gun, I have to defend myself maybe killing him (this happens when one goes to war). These, I think, are not wrong doings.

This is hurting somebody else. Of course I think you mean a person of good will, but because you didn’t say it I thought that you meant EVERYBODY else.
One asks a question, a quite detailed one and what does one get? ‘Read the Bible.’
You know what?Tthe Bible has too many ways of being understood. Dependes on the individual, on his faith, his perspective…
I have or I know a way to attain a higher spiritual satus. How to get to a Higher status is not the question. The question remains unanswered. How does one know for sure that an action/inaction is a good one or a bad one??? It has nothing to do with what is written in sacred books. It is a very objective one and it may be considered Universal. Should one consider the first questions in the details or not. If I consider all those questions before acting, am I sure that I will commit a good action or could it end up being a wrong action? This is what I want to know. Not about philosofies or sacred books, or what God tells you to do. I want to know if I could independentely find a way to, by myself, cause only GOOD.

Jehovah’s Witnesses consider the Bible to be the only infallible inspired means of determining God’s will and purposes.

Jehovah’s Witnesses consider the Holy Scriptures as the final word in all matters of worship, and actually encourage their adherents to elevate the bible over the human traditions which pass as worship for too many humans.

(Matthew 15:3,9) [Jesus] said to them: “Why is it you also overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition? …It is in vain that they keep worshiping [God], because they teach commands of men as doctrines.

(Mark 7:8) Letting go the commandment of God, you hold fast the tradition of men.

(Colossians 2:8) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry you off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ