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

To: Greg or e who wrote (10704)	4/7/2001 6:29:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Perhaps a bit of an overstatement Yes, a bit of an overstatement. I see what you mean, but that clearly wasn't the thrust of the essay. "Without firm moral instruction, Americans approach the virtues gingerly. They recognize their importance but reinvent their meaning to make sense of the situations in which they find themselves." It makes sense that we would read this essay differently since I approve of moral freedom and you don't. When he talked about reinventing their meaning, I didn't have in mind excusing bad behavior. I was thinking more about interpreting morality in in terms of contemporary situations. For example, adultery. Before divorce, adultery was simple to understand. Today, however, one must interpret when adultery occurs relative to where someone is in the process of breaking up. Do you need to wait for the divorce? Do you wait until he or she moves out? How about when their relationship is over and they've decided to divorce but are still living under the same room for convenience? The Bible doesn't speak to that, I'll bet. Just because people are free to make their own moral choices doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will be less moral, although some surely will. We don't have to approve of people who excuse low morals under the freedom scenario any more than we would under the authoritarian model. Karen