How sad that you think this way.
I see nothing sad about it at all. I have long since made peace with the reality that there are things I will never know for sure, and there are things that I will have to decide for myself, knowing that my decision will be imperfect.
It is sad to think that there are people who think they know these things. I may not be the most intellectually compromising person on earth, but when it comes to deciding on a practical course of action, I'm always willing to compromise, mainly because I know that what I believe is only what I believe, not some sort of revealed absolute "right". When you get two or more people who really and truly believe that they "know" what is "right" (they don't of course, they only think they do), and they believe that different things are "right", you get a situation where compromise is very difficult, and trouble often results.
That is sad, and that is why it is so sad to realize that there are people blind enough to believe that they know what cannot be known.
Taking the abortion issue as an example: I am not at all comfortable with the idea of ripping out a fetus that will probably become a person; neither am I comfortable with the idea that the State has the right to compel a woman to bear a child that she doesn't want. My own preferred solution is a compromise: permit abortions within the first trimester, possibly later under special circumstances. Is that the "right" solution? I don't know, and neither does anyone else. Is it perfect? No. Is it practical? I think so.
I confess that one of the nicer things about it, in my view, is that it would leave the extremists on both sides unrequited and furious, which in my view is always an indication that a good move has been made. |
