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'Shared Responsibility' is one of the most overlooked principles today. As a human race, we have a shared responsibility to keeping this earth clean so that our children can survive in it. As morally responsible beings, we have a shared responsibility to respond to the overwhelming need of food, water, and medicine in countries where thousands upon millions are dying from preventable causes. But this 'Shared Responsibility' becomes overlooked by 'My Responsibility'. I need to pay my taxes. I need to afford my house. I need to pay for education for my children. What we don't realize is that if we are concerned with merely 'My Responsibility', the economy will crash because there not nearly enough healthy people in the world. The environment will shorten the days of those children we are trying to put through school and university. Shared Responsibility is far too overlooked today.

What is to be said about prosperity? When can we say one is prosperous, and one is not? What boundaries, what conditions do we apply to prosperity? We may say, one who has a Porsche is more prosperous than the man with the Pontiac. The man with the mansion is more prosperous than the man living in the trailer. Why do we categorize ourselves like this? Is there any difference in a man driving to work in a Porsche than a man driving to work in a Pontiac? Rather, it would seem the man with the Porsche would do better to sell his Porsche and buy two Pontiacs, giving one away to someone in need. For anyone would agree that a friend is more valuable than a mere car... and in this case, one in excess would be able to have both the friend and the car.

Prosperity is an interesting thing. If one gets more prosperity, others may desire more prosperity. Uncontentness is one large factor in our desire to 'reach the top. Today, our main enemy may not be our own possessions in themselves... but our possessions could be someone else's enemy. Our new car is in our driveway each week, plain for all our neighbours to see. Today's worst enemy i