Can Right Coexist With Wrong?
In a reply to a post which asks the question, “Can our society be happy again?” I identified one situation in particular that I feel is just one of the reasons that our society is not very happy as a whole at this time. What I identified as a roadblock to happiness, is the way that mental health is handled today in America.
My attempt at explaining my view on mental health treatment in America today and how it is affected by big Pharma, was me trying to convey greed in the form of big Pharma as being just one of the reasons why our society is not happy, and how it is keeping us from being happy.
Now, this was intended as simply a statement on the greed of big Pharma, and not as an attack on mental health doctors, nurses and research experts, who of course have come through with brilliant methods and advancements in treatments for individuals with mental health issues at various times throughout history. It also wasn’t intended to be taken negatively, but as an expose to illustrate there are things we have to fix first, if we seek a happier world.
I personally am the kind of person who never has and never will own stock in any big Pharma companies as, in my opinion, big pharma as a whole is evil because of its greed vice. Holding such stock is immoral and unethical, IMO, and it’s the same reason I won’t own oil and/or energy stocks along with some others.
The GermanWings pilot-(patient) was in the cockpit as co-pilot on the flight, and when the pilot went for a bathroom break or whatever, the guy on the big Pharma “medicine” that makes people want to kill themselves, locked the cockpit door and then spiraled the plane into the Alps, as the pilot pounded and pleaded desperately for him to unlock the cockpit door and the passengers, beside themselves, agonized, knowing of their impending doom.
Does this not constitute a severe and serious threat to our safety as normal citizens, to have pilots on anti-depressants that cause them to want to kill themselves, still being allowed to be in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft? Is anyone happy that this same flaw in the system continues on? Until I see something stating otherwise, I have to believe that big pharma used its “clout” to insure pilots can still fly while on their antidepre$$ant$.
The relatives, friends and lovers of those passengers doomed by that pilot, (who could be labeled as big pharma’s “hit man”), I’m sure are still extremely sad today, four years later, all because of big pharma’s greed.
Why do I accuse them of greed rather than saying it was just a mistake? Well, for one thing, as far as I know, (if anyone can correct me, please do, with an attribution to source), but I’m not finding anything showing that antidepressants have been banned for pilots, which would have been the only right and proper thing to do, but it would also mean the loss of $$$$$ from big Pharma’s coffers. A big no no.
A grave concern for maintaining the happiness of the world big Pharma and its stock holders, indeed!
Anyone? Your 401k maybe, you say? Take a look sometime at the people-negative stocks you own through your 401k, if you dare.
What big Pharma and this pilot did, actually increased the number of unhappy people on the planet! If each one of those innocent passengers had just 10 people that were sad at their needless, preventable deaths, that means that the number of sad people increased by the thousands that day, thanks to our greedy friends.
There was no happiness increase at all that day, and even if hundreds of reports of positive advancements in mental health care were published that same day or the day after, it likely didn’t outweigh the pain of those who were newly sad, and are still sad to this day, I’m sure.
I consider sadness to be a negative feeling, and when it is preventable and inexcusable, it’s very negative.
We can’t hide from things we wish didn’t exist. We can’t block out negativity and its cause by looking only at happy things. We can’t know truth if all that we hear are lies that make us feel better, but are still lies.
I see the mental health issue and how it is handled by government as a money-maker solely for satisfying big Pharma’s insatiable greed, which the congress people and the senators share in, along with the pay for play protection bounty, along with their taxpayer-funded sexual-offense accuser hush fund. While I am a positive person myself to the greater extent, I don’t shield myself from understanding why and how some of the issues that are killing happiness arise.
In order for us to look at something as vast and deep-rooted as the negativity that surrounds us in our world today, and then for us to set out to seek an answer as to whether or not our society can be happy again, we’re required to identify first, the negativity that needs to go. Just focusing on positive things exclusively, isn’t going to give us those answers nor bring us happiness, and it won’t help to solve anything negative, IMO.
The fact that it would be difficult to find a majority among common citizens saying that big pharma does good things, means there are a lot of people unhappy with something they are forced to deal with on a continuing basis, and out of their wallets, while others in the world pay far less than we do in our rigged system.
Understand that I was identifying just one of the things that we all need to understand and act upon if we can even begin to consider making the world more positive overall. The things that cause the negativity have to be called out, and then altered in the way they are done, possibly as far as a complete makeover. But we can’t make a positive world while allowing negativity-inducing entities to continue to exist as they have been.
Doing so will only make more people of the world sadder, IMO. Ignoring the negativity that people and other entities create will serve to only grind away the potential for an increase in happiness. Negativity must be identified and destroyed before that can happen and happiness can instead be the rule.
Can Right Coexist With Wrong? © free-reign 2019
Source for images used in this post:
Sign: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
GermanWings Plane: Image by Andy Leung from Pixabay
Pills: Image by Emilian Danaila from Pixabay
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