Today I had an exam, not very difficult, not very easy. Tomorrow I have another exam, not very easy. And here I am, talking about things that most of you do not care about, but you are reading it so I am going to tell you about something.
The last exam I had I let the person next to me copy the results, I know she was doing it but I did nothing to stop, as we are friends and I do not want her to not pass the exam. But later that day the teacher sent an email to the whole class telling that he knows some of us copied in the exam. We are 15 in class, so there are many chances that he saw her copying or we had the same results. And that is when I did not feel good about letting her copy. Something someone did that has nothing to do with me is making me probably fail the course. This really makes you think about how your actions should not hurt other people, even if the moment when that is happening you are not hurting the other person at the moment.
Everything is fine now, you can stop worrying about me, she talked to the teacher and he told us that the email was not for us.
There is a good phrase I heard somewhere: the freedom of your fist ends where the other person's nose starts. But when it comes to collateral damage we do not seem very concerned about the consequences.
Take our lives for example, we know the fact that if every person lives like a first world citizen we would not have resources for anyone, we are now negative in resources and we are few people consuming a lot of that resources. We know this is not viable, yet we do not change the way we live. That is hurting the people in poorer countries, even if we are not hurting them directly.
I do not want to get too philosophical, so I will let you think a little and I am going back to study a little.
