Toleration of Bad Behavior?

Toleration of Bad Behavior?

As humans grow and develop, we learn day to day to choose from right and wrong, good and bad, and at some points what's moral and what isn't. Most people would love to believe that a human is born pure and doesn't commit "sin" or "wrong-doings" till society has an affect on him/her. Nonetheless wrong doings still occur, sometimes even at a very young age. For example, at a young age perhaps at school children learn to play games, and in turn we learn to cheat at those games to gain something. Usually, elementary school seems to be the breeding and maturing ground for lying, cheating, and sly-full behavior. Today in society, even as adults, people take advantage of each other to get what they need or want, the problem occurs when these lies or acts of immorality are a necessity to stay alive and whether they should be tolerated or not.

While traveling in the Bahamas I experienced things I never thought I would. Imagine a basic Wal-Mart sized tent with no air conditioning overflowing with the stench of sweat, old cigar smoke, and cooking food. Walking in the middle of the street avoiding cars in the hot sun, then turning into this tent is comparable to a desert versus an ice lake. The conditions of this tent no one should ever have to endure, much less make their living out of. But, everyday of the year from sun up till sun down the Bahaman natives haggle, scam, loot, and lie their way into your pockets loaded with American cash. Speaking to one fake purse vendor for more than five minutes will knock at least $20 dollars off her original selling price. Finally, when you agree to pay however much for the fake knock off, you're still paying $10 more than she did. When you leave the wretched place and walk to a cab, hr states it will be $5 per person and says he's the cheapest. When you "price shop" the other cabbies he turns out to be right, only because everyone in The Bahamas works together, it would seem, to secretly scam the American tourist.

When did such immoral behavior become so accepted into daily life? The fact of the matter is these people base their entire lives on what that particular tourist is willing to give them. If they don't sell that product their child may not eat that night. Over 95% of the country's income is from the pockets of overseas travelers. It's easy