I don't know if you enjoy massacring animals, but with some justification you can be said to be contributing to the mistreatment of animals by purchasing cow's milk although I don't really hold that position.Help stamp out hyperbole!
If I prefer cow's milk to soy milk, does that mean that I enjoy massacring animals?
I'm not sure how I've extrapolated. Extrapolation means to make predictions based on recent trends. Are you sure you're using the right word here?Unknown Soldier said:the work ethic ... appears to favor those who own businesses and makes the wealthy out to be virtuous while the poor are living in vice--both views having little truth to them. The work ethic appears to sow social discord by painting many minorities as bad, and those minorities include single parents, some ethnic groups, and the disabled.
Is it ethical to tell kids that work makes them virtuous when we all know that work can make criminals out of people? Should we libel the unemployed smearing them as scoundrels when we know full well that many unemployed people are actually quite virtuous?
Your argument relies on excessive extrapolation.
I happen to be very disabled, and I've been attacked for being unemployed. Other disabled people I've known have the same problem. At least one of my attackers justified his spiel by alluding to the work ethic. It's dangerous to come up with a philosophy that encourages resentment or bigotry against a class of people. So it's not as far a cry as you assert here.To preach that it is better for an able-bodied person to work than to be lazy is a very far cry from condemning a disabled person unable to work as sinful.
Anyway, as I see it, there's nothing ethical or unethical about work; it's just something that needs to be done. Most people I know don't like work, but that has nothing to do with their characters. There are good and bad among the employed and the unemployed.