I wrote a poem that might suggest otherwise:
A guy sees me hanging myself
He walks on by.
Perhaps he thinks it's too late to help
Perhaps he doesn't care
Perhaps he reasons it'd be better if I were dead.
One less mouth to feed
One less body to clothe
One less soul to redeem
When there's one less me.
Again, I'm not suicidal, don't worry about me, but I think like this sometimes. I try to avoid harming others, I try to take less than my share so there is enough for everyone, but I wonder to what extent I should follow these principles. Is it wrong to eat sugar when farmers are using their land to grow and export cane sugar, and being poorly repaid when they could be growing food for their community? Even if I buy fair trade cocoa, is it problematic how much land we've dedicated to growing luxury foods when many live without essentials? I don't know the answers, but I can see, from my poem above, where such thinking can lead. Will I even be able to do more harm than good?
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