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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (7700)	3/6/2001 5:56:55 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It is not a matter of convenience at all, it is a matter related to the conditions of the deal (promise). When the conditions are not present the deal is no longer valid. I made that clear in my original response, you seem to have ignored it. Right? I didn't ignore anything. I just see it differently. If I told you a secret and you didn't articulate that your commitment to keep it had strings, I would expect you to not reveal the secret. If you had made the strings part of the deal, I wouldn't have told you the secret. IMO, your twist makes the deal fraudulent. If my secret was such that you had to break your promise for some good reason, you would still have broken your promise, which is immoral. I may forgive you for it. You may be able to justify it. But it's still immoral. When I spoke of convenience, I was referring to never making a promise just so you won't ever have to break one. Or dancing around about taxis or whether you had a deal with your neighbor about using his stuff without asking first. I find that contorted, although I understand now why you couldn't imagine a scenario where you had to choose between immoral acts. If it works for you, it's fine with me. You're entitled to determine what's moral for you just as I'm entitled to determine what's moral for me. I would have taken my neighbor's car and begged his understanding later. If he didn't understand, I would have taken my lumps. And I would have called the cops on the killer but asked his forgiveness for breaking my promise. I wouldn't have expected him to forgive me. Karen