On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:27:20 -0300 Bruno Rocha <rochacbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> sometime ago I have been contacted by an user of this list asking me > help for a project. > > After some messages, this user wanted me to develop an e-store for his > client. A big company and this would be a great project (he would pay > a large ammount of money for me) > > so I discovered that it was a hunting stuff e-store. to sell hunting > weapons and taxidermy stuff. > > I reject the job and for sure I did not helped him directly with this. I would probably do the same...but that falls into case where someone is openly against some group, principles etc. > I am vegan and animal rights activist (abolitionist) for me is no go > to work in a project where animal exploitation is directly the goal. I fully agree with that, but what is the difference if e.g. you're helping the project which has animal exploatation as its goal or you're helping people to make money in some other project and buy meat in the butcher shop? Don't be in illusion that your karmic share is much different in the latter case. > also I will never directly work/help projects with any kind of > racism, sexism or speciesism. However, I would not mix *belief* and *deeds*. People complained about the religious BELIEF (maybe I am also included) which Johann expresses in his signature and not about what he DOES which, imho, makes a big difference. You're aware that the leader of this project is non-vegetarian and I buy his book I'm helping him to buy the meat. Still, I feel that if I receive something from someone (web2py in this case) who puts his time, energy etc. into it, then, there is no harm by contributing back. Moreover, after coming to know that our leader is non-vegetarian does not make him less worthy in my eyes...I was also born as meat-eater and by showing nice example to other people, we may help them to raise their consciousness and awareness. Here is inspiring post from someone I highly admire (knowing him from my Haskell times) who is religious person showing nice attitude towards those who are different. (higgly recommended to read!) http://changelog.complete.org/archives/7253-an-incredible-story-from-soviet-times Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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