Just a note.
I was watching someone talking about the punishment of the basketball players who ran up in the stands and beat fans. One of the fans involved was being interviewed. He was asked by Greta Sustern about whether a particular player was “punished enough.”
He went into the usual routine:
“I am not the commissioner. I don’t make decisions like that …”
And so on and so on. A lot of people quote the Bible or say, “I don’t play God.”
But what if you DO have to “play God?”
Think about it.
#1 by Elizabeth on 11/24/2004 - 1:50 pm
I get so _sick_ of this! There is right and there is wrong(/b>!
There’s always going to be somebody who gets upset because you come down on one side or the other. If you don’t like, ask yourself if you are an adult.
This whole “I don’t want to judge” business is the natural consequence of the “situational ethics” drivel that became prominent in the mid-1970s. Unfortunately, that drivel has infected a large share of our population, mainly because it was wholeheartedly embraced by the Education Establishment.
#2 by Horace on 11/24/2004 - 2:30 pm
But what if you DO have to “play God?”
When can I start?
#3 by Bedford on 11/24/2004 - 8:37 pm
I subsribe to “Do unto others as they do unto you”. If you are nice to someone and they are not nice in return, do you continue to being nice in the face of mistreatment? I am not familiar enough with the stem cell question to have an opinion – it sounds like the “medical marijuana” question. General Lee was a man of high standards even in war. One of his Liutenants, Jube Early, did not agree with Lee’s position on war conduct. Jube burned the iron mill in Pennsylvania because it was producing war material and was owned by one Lincoln’s cabinet and because the yankees burned private property in Virginia. Lee didn’t like it but he understood it.