A person who does good and righteous things and always
has goodness
and righteous in his thought
to guide, correct and improve himself is a good
and righteous person. If a person keeps righteous-ness when
the proper
interests of some other
country or other group are concerned as well as the
interests of his country or
his group, he is also doing good for his country
or his group.
If such a person is regarded by the group or the
country*1 of which he
is a member, or regarded by
some members of the group or the country, as
a bad and shameful member,
the problem, the wrong and the shame are with
the group or the country*2, or those members,
not with that person.
*1 In most cases, “the government”, “the media”, or “the public opinions” would be
a more correct and more suitable description than the term “the country” about
where the pressures, the punishments, or the oppressions come from.
*2 In the perceivable future (in at least one and a half centuries), it will be quite
impossible for humankind to see the political institution of country
abandoned voluntarily through a slow, smooth process of social evolution
and without serious disagreements or turmoils. Before that kind of
voluntary and smooth abandonment of the institution of country happens,
any person who has a nationality ought to do good for his country if his
country has not oppressed him or the mass of his countrymen. When his
country is ruled by a tyranny, to overthrow that tyranny is doing good for
his country.
( W. H. Haisadiam; February, 1982 )
- - - Star note 1 was added on
September 21, 2000, while
Star note 2 had been in a
message first issued in
February, 1982.
[ A note added on July 25, 2002: ]
To those bosses, directors, or supervisors, group leaders, etc.
who hate the people believing the instruction above:
Someday you may,
or you will, find this may be the only rescue for the great disaster
which
you have been involved with before it’s too big, too disastrous, and too late
to be
“managed”
any longer by you, or others more responsible or more to be blamed than you,
with covering-up and cowardice to face truths and punishments.
For example, in the Enron case or similar big-name cases,
If there had
been a few persons who had felt they could not turn their conscience away
from
the instruction and encouragement contained in these two messages of “Not any
law
should
prohibit them, nor should any custom hinder them” and “Most Concrete Way of
Doing
Good”, the Enron crisis could not have become so bad, and America’s stock
markets
would
not have been so bad these days in the mid-summer of 2002—possibly even with
worse
situations to come if there will be no great good news or help to come up soon
into the ears, minds, and hearts, and even souls, of the general people of America.
( W. H. Haisadiam; July 25, 2002 )
- - - Uploaded into this “Good Messages”
website on Aug. 12, 2002.