Cut to the chase. Consolidation, unfair competition and monopolistic behavior is the behavior of selfish, greedy cowards who would throw thousands of people out of jobs to dodge taxes and fair labor laws.
But, that's not much different from a person who would rather have a luxury car than save a hundred starving children.
Or a comfortable IRS person who would bully a poor person, or a child support worker who would bully, insult, harass, defame, and rob a good and faithful spouse unjustly robbed of their children by a court system of extorting lawyers who shred families of little children for profit.
It's not much different from the person who votes in favor of abortion or fights for civil wrongs under the guise of civil rights.
It totally justifies and answers the question why a good, loving, fair, and decent God could send anyone to hell. Truth is, if He mere set aside a place called heaven for those who wouldn't ruin it, we would have sufficient heart and behavior to make the rest of the universe hell through our greed, through our cowardice and selfishness and self-righteousness and abuse and deceit.
Why is it a surprise that some CEO's would be honorable and some would not? Why is it a surprise that some judges might operate with integrity and sincerity and justice while others bray like arrogant jackasses feeling entitled to rule the world? Why is it a surprise that power seems to corrupt when it only reveals the corruption of the heart? And how could complete power corrupt completely unless the unrevealed heart were corrupted fully?
Good people want good things. Bad people want good things. Good people show good behavior. Bad people show good behavior. Honest people tell the truth. Liars tell the truth. Only when trials, tribulations, and temptation come is the goodness of the human heart tested. And what we see is what we hate to see. We defend. We hide. We justify. We retort. We bristle. We cut off friendships and relationships. We throw our promises and our integrity to the wind because we can no longer sustain a false image of goodness for ourselves. We sin, but we pretend we failed. Truth is we never tried. We say we made mistakes but in truth it was calculated and we betrayed. If we did not betray in outward actions, it is not to our glory that we were sheltered from the situations that would have revealed the corruption of our hearts. Truth is we had no regard for God, for the universe, for the love of our fellow human being or for what was good. We only loved what indulged ourselves.
The fact we cannot see this or will not admit to it will not diminish it's truth in face of an honest God, if there be one. You and I cannot make God exist or not exist by believing one way or another. Nor can we increase or decrease our accountability to whoever or whatever exists since we know we exist and we know our world and our universe exist around us as do the moral demands on our lives whatever religion or political persuasion we may embrace.
But, will we come clean? Will the problem of sin be resolved? Can we say we have a debt that cannot be repaid and use that to excuse the sins of the future? If not, can we bear up going forward forsaking our sins knowing that our responsibility for the crimes of the past can never be abated? Can we pay beyond what we owe if our debt is fullly honorable behavior and honorable intentions from birth until death? If there be no God, can there be salvation? If there be no penalty can there be justice? And if we be mere animals without moral obligation, how can we say what we should or should not do? How can we say the Nazi or the KKK member or child molester or terrorist is bad and anyone else is good?
Or does it matter?
Should we be concerned whether companies consolidate? Whether jobs are lost? Whether injustice reigns? Whether people hurt or starve? Or should we be concerned only for ourselves?
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