Recently the venture capital firm, which is an investor in Facebook and a co-founder in PayPal, invested millions of dollars
in a marijuana company. Most companies are leaning toward more beneficial investments for the world than “sinful companies.” But is smoking weed sinful? Is it morally wrong? First of all if it’s against the law it’s obviously a sin to partake in, but what about Colorado where it’s legal? Then is it morally wrong? Does marijuana benefit our health, or does it corrupt our minds? These are all hard questions to answer. I think marijuana can medically be helpful, but there are always people who will corrupt it for something different to make them feel good, and that’s when it becomes morally wrong. It is also a personal conviction with most people, same with drinking or smoking cigarettes. Most people would say it is unethical to smoke weed, as well as invest in a company that sells it for recreational use. Part of me wants to disagree and say no its fine to invest in a company for something you disagree with, as long as you're making money. But that's not right, because if you're investing in a company you are supporting them, it would be the same thing if someone invested in a prostitution organization but didn't believe it was right. So it obviously is wrong to invest in a marijuana company if you do not fully support them. But it is their choice and their money, I just think there's many other things that could better benefit society than drugs.
Charlie Hebdo, if you haven’t heard, is a magazine that in a sense makes fun of everything using series of cartoons to illustrate their senses of humor. Recently the largely populated area of Muslim’s in France got a little upset about a cartoon done of their prophet Muhammad. A little upset is an understatement, two Muslim extremists came in and killed ten of Charlie Hebdo’s employees and two policemen as well. Most people would think to back off to avoid even more casualties, and that’s the exact opposite of what they did. They decided to make another cartoon with Muhammad holding a sign saying “Je Suis Charlie” meaning I am Charlie in French, pretty ballsy move. You would think that the Muslim extremists would bomb the whole building where they work, and they very well could, but they haven’t yet, and this cartoon has only helped them. It has given them fame and revenue, normally Charlie Hebdo prints about 60,000 copies of their magazine, but after the killings they printed and sold over 5 million copies. Talk about opportunity cost, I mean yeah they lost 10 lives but they sold over 5 million copies! But in all seriousness the loss of those employees is a tragedy, it’s inspiring that these people, even after those deaths, continued to fight for their cause knowing well that there could be dire consequences. These people had a choice, either to back down and get walked on and killed, or to stand up and make a statement, if only everybody had an attitude like the people of Charlie Hebdo.
Recently as everyone who
drives knows, the gas prices have dropped crazily. We can thank the Middle East
for increasing the Oil exports, which increases the amount of gas we have in America,
at a lesser price. This increase in oil has in a sense hurt the NYSE and also
the Japanese exchange Nikkei 225, for most investors of oil traded their stock,
causing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to fall 37.62 points. So although
the decrease of gas prices is helping everyday average Americans, it’s also
hurting the economy in a sense. There are always two sides to every story
though, I would describe what has happened is a good thing, but someone might
disagree with me. A lot of workers are getting laid off in North Dakota and
Texas because they are no longer needed, if we can just get oil from the Middle
East why would companies want to pay extra money to workers? This is in a sense
a Cost Benefit Analysis, we could be using money to pay workers in the U.S. to
be harvesting this oil, or we can just get it from the Middle East which is
obviously cheaper since prices are going down. The Marginal Cost has gone down
since the Scarcity of oil has gone down as well. We no longer have to pay $4.00
a gallon because we are getting oil for cheaper, in larger quantities, which is
our, as customers of gas, our Marginal Benefit.
Recently as everyone who
drives knows, the gas prices have dropped crazily. We can thank the Middle East
for increasing the Oil exports, which increases the amount of gas we have in America,
at a lesser price. This increase in oil has in a sense hurt the NYSE and also
the Japanese exchange Nikkei 225, for most investors of oil traded their stock,
causing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to fall 37.62 points. So although
the decrease of gas prices is helping everyday average Americans, it’s also
hurting the economy in a sense. There are always two sides to every story
though, I would describe what has happened is a good thing, but someone might
disagree with me. A lot of workers are getting laid off in North Dakota and
Texas because they are no longer needed, if we can just get oil from the Middle
East why would companies want to pay extra money to workers? This is in a sense
a Cost Benefit Analysis, we could be using money to pay workers in the U.S. to
be harvesting this oil, or we can just get it from the Middle East which is
obviously cheaper since prices are going down. The Marginal Cost has gone down
since the Scarcity of oil has gone down as well. We no longer have to pay $4.00
a gallon because we are getting oil for cheaper, in larger quantities, which is
our, as customers of gas, our Marginal Benefit.