Each of us has an innate ethical code that is reflected in the quality of our actions and inactions when confronted with competing interests. How do you balance the equities? Is it mostly about you? Are there areas of your life wherein your ethical code simply lays dormant? Nothing inspires me more than reading about some great entrepreneurial adventure. And, nothing frustrates me more than seeing otherwise solid citizens forced to weather the fallout of their short-term gain mentality.
I am arguably the last person to be writing a essay on this subject. As a high school graduate and convicted felon my storefront credentials are a tad thin.
However, unlike the preacher who threatens damnation in the abstract, I have had the opportunity and personal misfortune of enduring the hell-on-earth reality of a Federal criminal conviction. My lengthy residency in the belly of the beast provided an eye-opening look at life under total government control. Nothing hammers home the concept of hitting bottom like a prison strip search. more>>>
