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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (6717)2/27/2001 1:47:47 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
the third order refinement involves (here we go, Solon et al.), stewardship

Cosmic, old friend. Don't confuse the RIGHT to be free (which means to be immoral and mistaken at times) with the moral choices that reasonable people probably ought to make. Morality and good are not necessarily the same. If it rains in a drought that is good, but it is neither moral nor immoral. Morality requires a choice. People (and societies) don't always make caring or decent or moral choices.

I love to help animals, but let me tell you a cruel thing I did when I was young and stupid. I came across a mother and her ducklings and I took the duckling home. I knew nothing about waterproofing their wings, so all my finest intentions to make the duckling happy killed it with pneumonia. Because of my ignorance I did a cruel and immoral action. Perhaps there is something in that story that might explain what I have been arguing about?
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