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Money vs morality (filler post)
<p>yesterday, a scenario came up in a conversation.</p><p><br/></p><p>an app developer gets approached by "Yahoo boys" to build an "investment" app. the pay is crazy. the kind of money that makes you sit up and start planning how you'll spend it.</p><p><br/></p><p>the question was simple,</p><p>would you take the job?</p><p><br/></p><p>everyone immediately turned to look at me, probably because I'm a pastor's son. I guess they expected the holy answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>I laughed and said I will collect the money.</p><p><br/></p><p>my reasoning was simple. my job would be to build an app. what they decide to do with the app after that is their business.</p><p><br/></p><p>of course, the reaction came quickly.</p><p><br/></p><p>someone said I was speaking with my business mind and not my church mind. he said it goes against the word of God.</p><p><br/></p><p>then he brought up the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.</p><p><br/></p><p>that was the moment I knew the conversation had gone off track.</p><p><br/></p><p>because those two situations are not even cousins.</p><p><br/></p><p>one is about sexual temptation and loyalty. </p><p>the other is about survival, money, and the strange moral grey areas people find themselves in.</p><p><br/></p><p>the real issue here is something deeper.</p><p><br/></p><p>people love to say morality is everything.</p><p>until they're stuck in a situation that causes them to be desperate for survival.</p><p><br/></p><p>when life is comfortable, morality feels easy.</p><p>when survival becomes uncertain, morality starts wavering.</p><p><br/></p><p>so, the real question is not whether morality matters.</p><p><br/></p><p>the real question is this:</p><p><br/></p><p>when survival and morality collide,</p><p>which one do people actually choose?</p>
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