Majo, I try to read as many of the messages on this screen as...

Ronald Altieri - February 27 2011, 8:42 AM

Majo, I try to read as many of the messages on this screen as often as i can. I have come across some very entertaining and thought provoking messages.

I have, myself, sent some that i am sure i could have done better had i dwelled on the topic a little more, and not on individuals.

I have applauded some and decided not to applaud some others on this screen, but that does not mean that i have lesser appreciation for what they bring to this screen and my mind. It is obvious that some of us write under different screen names, for personal reasons, as there are different sides to all personalities.

But now allow me to applaud the theme of your message today, Majo, which is: Immorality.

In thinking of such, you left us a wonderful thought in saying that we have a population in the worst conditions; worst conditions than animals, and some are focusing on immorality.

Very interesting, Majo, to say the least.

I spent sometime in the US Military, and i have taken some courses on Ethics.

One of the primary ideas that most of us, that took that cours, came away with is that the means justify the end. Meaning for example: That although prostitution is immoral, but a woman prostituting herself to save her starving 4 four children is given a pass on the ethical weight of immorality, and that weight is shifted to the father of those children; the family of those children, and even the men that decided not to help her feed her children without the act of exchanging sex for money.

That was an example taking from the cultural or social prism, as it is referred to.
But to shift our view and glance at the political aspect of this accepted and well understood survival reality that is labeled THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS under Political Ethics, you will find that morality was championed under the Geneva Convention to give the warring factors a moral guide by which they would stay away from immorality in the theater of war.
By that approach, some War & Political scholars have argued that it was moral to have dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese children, babies, pregnant women, old women in hospitals, as well as handicap individuals who were not part of the war as soldiers, but were civilians going about their everyday lives.

This so, simply because it was seen; it was deciphered, by deductive reasoning that had the war kept on going Japan would have been invaded and the ground war would end up taking more lives than both of the atomic bombs dropped annihilated together.

In other words, THE MEANS JUSTIFY THE END.
Let us move to another angle.

I like to think that i am average human being trying to learn as much as i can from life and other human beings.

For to me, the greatest University is life, and all humans are teachers within this University with God as the SchoolMaster.

I know that some are carrying a Bible under my left arm, while they are throwing rocks with their right hands, but i hope never to be the type. What i mean by that - not that you should care about my point of view - is that i see right as right and wrong as wrong.

But i must be careful, because when i am facing you, your left hand is facing my right and my right your left. Given that simple truth, while we are facing one another if you tell me go left, even if my left if facing your right i must by good rational proceed to go to my left, which is your right.

So, if when I am facing you, you tell me to go right and I go to your left I am not wrong, if you mean that I should have gone in the direction of my right.

Clearly, a mean of understandable communication must be established for us to know where we need to go.
Where does Haiti need to go?

We will not attempt to tackle this very complex question here with our simple words of truth, if you permit me to say.
Quickly, I remember how i was moved to come across the New Testament of the Bible as a youngster, and the great moral lessons that was discussed.

In particular Saul's story, and also the story of the woman that was going to be stoned for being immoral.

What stayed with me as part of the latter was the idea of were there any men involved in that act, and were they not also deserving of being stoned?

The Christ - The Greatest moral leader, as far as i concerned, said: Let the one amongst you that is not immoral be the first to throw the first stone.

Well, you get the point.

Going back to the theme of your message, which initiated this response, it is clear that we have a population in the worst conditions; worst conditions than animals, and some are focusing on immorality.

Some are focusing on the immorality of Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly, and are busy throwing all the stones they can get their hands on at his past, while holding tightly to the Bible.

I think I understand, because we should understand that there is a spiritual lesson to be learned in every situation presented for our minds to dwell upon

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