When Immorality is Unavoidable...

Actually I wanted the to read "damned do, damned I don't"...but some of you know how I feel about using toot! toot! words. Hey darn!(ooops...the horns are beginning to sprout), but under the current circumstances, do allow me to ... er ... vent with whatever colourful vocabulary I have stored up all these years.

Haha...if only I can.
While I am driven by strong impulses to let loose a verbal tirade, the rational side is reining them in. So as the head-heart heated debate is raging on...I will find some outlet. (So drama...)

I am still on that journey to find answers...
And today, I found myself cornered in a kind of age-old ethical dilemm. What happens when you find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place?

Sometimes, we face situations where you know, whatever choice you make, it will end up wrong, and go against the grain of your beliefs. It is times like that when logic even will not help.

One such moral paradox is that little quiz people do. If a ship is sinking, and you can only save one person, would it be your spouse or your mother? Or...to bring in another example...would I turn in Robin Hood knowing fully well, that he is a thief?

Sigh.
Sometimes, like it or not, there are times when it is really quite impossible to do the 'right' thing...this is especially so, when I deal with my young charges who can be wilful and reckless at times.
There are times when I simply have to bite my tongue, hold the pride down, and hold steady, even though it's tough. However I know that it is so hard to make the right...or even the best choice.

Can an action be so wrong, and yet the person who does it remain blameless?
Is it logical to think that we can be forced into doing the wrong things things...not because we want to, but because we have to?

Now that I think about it, I can't find the answers posed on ET!on line. They asked if that woman who gave birth to 8 babies, be allowed to keep her children.

Huh? You need a public poll on that?
Why should any mother not be allowed to raise her children?
But then, this lady has already got 6 older children (the eldest is 9 I think), no husbandand no job. Under that circumstances, does the state have the right to take the children away? Really? Is that for the greater good? Whose good? Are we already assuming that she will not be a good mother?


I think I am thinking to much.
But...thank God, I am still able to.

Signing off
The ethically befuddled one