Living with Conscience

Peace of mind just can't be bought.
Trust me:  Even if your conscience
doesn't stop you from playing dirty
to get what you want, once you get
it, it will keep you from enjoying it.
As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye."  

Which is
why I always prefer a loss to
an underhanded gain; the one
brings pain at the moment,
the other for all time.

--Patti LaBelle--

I have to wonder how long these residual effects from Mercury retrograde are going to last.  It just never seems to end.  My home phone is in and out and the company keeps coming out to fix it, but the first windy day, it starts acting up again.  I say, 'Stop repairing the old and bring in the new.  You certainly take my money quick enough each month, don't you?'  So, I have finally broken down and entered into the 21st century.  I bought a cell phone.  Hubby's got one, but he is always forgetting the darned thing at work, and it was kind of scary going through a 3 day weekend with no phone in the house.  My son has his, but he works at night, so any problems, we would have been up a creek.

And now, my work computer again.  I am so angry.  Everything was fine yesterday morning when I decided to check my work email....something I rarely do.  There was a message there from someone I used to work with a few years ago, and I was so excited to hear from him.  So, I anxiously opened his email, or what I thought was his email.  Big mistake!!!!  Immediately, a big message came up from Microsoft Essential Security came up, and I was locked out of everything. I am generally so, so careful about opening emails because I fear something happening to my computer...so, beware...be extremely careful with emails even though you know the person who supposedly sent it.

Hence, the quote above about living with conscience.  I have never been able to understand how someone could send these things through the system to hurt people they don't even know.  Where is the thrill in that?  I just don't see it.  So, I asked the man at the help desk and his words were kind of chilling.  Many of these people who have developed these worms, viruses, etc., they already have the antidote.  And many are 'out of work' computer nerds who end up getting hired because they know how to fix it.  When you look at it, they are paid to inflict harm to others. Talk about a lack of conscience.  

But, sadly, no everyone was raised with the same morals as you and I. I'm blessed to have a job and to have the money to keep my computer protected with the best of services out there, but what about the others...the elderly on fixed incomes, the invalids, what about those who use the computer as their only outlet to the outside world.  Why?  Because there are people out there who will walk over anyone just to get what they want...and that is very sad.

And please, my friends, have no fear.  You will never catch a computer virus from me. 

It is not because people's
desires are strong that they
act ill; it is because their
consciences are weak.
There is no natural connection
between strong impulses and
a weak conscience.  The natural
connection is the other way.

--John Stuart Mill--