Can you help me with a complex moral issue I have been grappling with for a week!
Question: My tennis shoe has a very tight knot in it. I cant seem to get it undone. I thought about cutting the shoe lace and buying a new one but I would have to cut both shoes and replace both to match. Also everytime I think about wasting that shoe lace I imagine overseas children crying about the hard work they put into making my shoe. It just breaks my heart.
How do I get over this emotional strain?
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Complex moral issue---?---Hee hee !
Dig a mountain and out comes a mouse !---sorry--shoe lace!
Okay---here is a serious suggestion---go find something better to do !
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hahaha funny
First and foremost, think of it this way--job security for the children who made that shoe lace. They will always have a job because of how wasteful we are when it comes to shoe laces and what not.
Secondly, this isn't some major crisis in your life. If you take things this seriously about small stuff, you need to get professional help.
Thirdly and lastly, you will make yourself sick, physically and emotionally if you keep thinking this way.
Do you want to go see my counselor?
sandles
and donate to the United Childrens Fund
Given that the shoes are useless unless you can wear them, it would be significantly less wasteful if you were to cut the shoelace, and then get a brand new pair of shoelaces to put into your shoes.
There's also no rule that you have to throw the old shoelaces away. In fact, what you may wish to do is to create a small macrame project using those shoelaces. That way, not only are you not wasting the shoelaces, but you are actually honoring the poor overseas children by turning the fruit of their labor into a work of art.
Medication works wonders.
try sponsering a child overseas.
and stop being sarcastic. not all shoes and laces are made in sweat shops.
I had the very same problem. My solution was that I went to the factory that made my shoes and I had the same kid who does the laces relace my shoes. I paid him the 2 cents he earns per hour (though the shop foreman gave me the impression that the tip would be deducted from his check because they don't want any worker to earn more than another). With that, my internal struggle was over. I know I could have bought a couple dozen pairs of sneakers for the cost of the trip, but the moral issue would have remained unsolved.
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Inside my Haunted Head
I'd suggest increasing your recreational drug intake and alcohol consumption. That seems to cure quite a few moral dilemmas these days.
I believe there are instructional videos available which offer step-by-step directions on current shoe-tying methodology. Look for a Sesame Street trademark to verify quality.
Buy new shoes.
they weren't made by the children over seas
they were made by the illegal Mexican immigrants in the US
so you don't have to feel so bad -now that you know who REALLY made those shoes!
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it was a very amusing question though! :D
First you need to tie a big knot in the second pair, so when you do cut them off, it would not be considered a waste.
Becaue of people like you..they invented velcro
I pretend elves weave my carpets and cobble my shoes. It makes me feel better. Elves like to work long hours and could care less about poor conditions.
Put new shoelaces on your shoes and sell the used ones as a cat toy. A gift that keeps on giving.
"How do I get over this emotional strain?"
You're knot.
Look at it this way. If you cut the shoelace, it's an excuse to go shopping. Yeah!
This will give you an opportunity to buy cool sparkly laces, or rainbow colored laces. Your choice.
Thirdly, you are keeping those children employed by buying more laces.
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