>>What makes it my business is the same thing that drove me, as just one example, to go on the picket lines, sit-ins, and into jail in the 60s to protest the treatment of black people I had never met and never would meet. What makes it my business is the same thing that made it the business of the Quakers on the underground railroad who risked their lives saving blacks from slavery, or that made it the business of people in Poland, France, etc. who saved jews from transfer to the death camps even though they had never before met or known those people and would never meet them again. What makes it my business is the same thing that makes me give money to relief organizations to help people I will never see, in ways I will never specifically know of.
It is my business -- no, my obligation -- to care about what happens to other people.>>
Delightful! I cannot remember ever being so proud of a fellow traveller! Those were incredible acts of caring and love, Christopher. I am suitably impressed with the depth of your humanity, you may be sure.
The only disappointment I received from the touching authenticity of your post, was the small matter that it did not address my question. I had asked: what makes the private business, between a woman and her doctor, any of Christopher's business?
Nobody needs a justification for caring; however, I feel that the business of your wife, in terms of medical procedures, is none of my own. Therefore, I questioned why you would consider medical procedures of other woman to be other than the private business of the patient and her doctor.
Your answer was non responsive--yet I am almost glad that it was. As I said, your heartfelt expressions of caring and love were a face of you I had not seen, and an inner Chris I was unaware of. The world needs more of the self effacing passion which powers people such as yourself to fight for the oppressed and the needy. Bravo to you, Sir!
"you are nonhuman...but not for that reason alone.
Aw, Christopher! After reading about the caring you have for people, I cannot credit that remark. You would go to jail for me, just as you did for black people--I know it! And I thank you for it. |
