Each of us analyzes cause and effect many times an hour. Being able to tell what will cause a bad effect and avoiding it is a sign of intelligence. The biggest mistakes in our analyses cause the worst effects. Investing in gold in an inflationary period is generally cause for good effect. Selling gold as inflation heats up is generally cause for a bad effect.
Buying a car is often cause for increased expenditures. But, if prices are going up, the same purchase may soon be seen to be a bargain. Billions of us carefully examine our daily investments in everything from breakfast to mortgages and try to achieve a good effect from what we cause to happen.
Intelligence, ultimately, is based on how well we analyze cause and effect. Some believe that we make better choices if we follow God’s Operating Instructions. He gives us a broad overview of what to do and not to do to get the best effect.
Viruses, on the other hand, encourage people to make bad choices. They try to make life painful, poor, and short. Many allow themselves to be corrupted by viruses that destroy them. They also may try to get others to accept, even approve, their choices.
That cause which provides the best effect for the least amount of effort should be the cause and effect we prefer.
To analyze cause and effects and embrace a cause with bad effects is a violation of the natural law that was programmed into each of us. If we find ourselves making mistakes, it is because we are choosing to make them. That means our CPUs are infected with viruses.
