Intermission
All people want to be good and do the right thing. No people can always do the right thing. Even when we do bad things, we can manage to justify it. Often times, we do something good after the fact to prove that we are still basically good. Governments, businesses, and people can all behave the same way. Think about a time you were involved in dubious behavior, either directly or as a bystander, that began as something righteous - or a time when you were a participant in behavior intended to make up for a questionable decision. You can see how our motives are mostly healthy and positives.
In Vietnam and Minamata Bay, things went horribly wrong. People died - innocent people. Thousands of animals died and the environment was devastated. Humans were maimed and disfigured, families were fractured, and reputations were ruined. In addition, the environment was distressed and the ecology was hugely disrupted.
In some cases, some good came from these disasters. Just as wars lead to some great breakthroughs in technology that help mankind, sometimes horrible accidents can lead to better understanding. What good things have come from war and environmental destruction? What understandings have come out of them?
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