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Wizen

I have sipped many cups; of Cultural Relativity; Schemas of Right and Wrong; Christian and Pagan beliefs; From Seneca to Diogenes: many brews many centuries. Waylaid I was in the middle years absolutists' beliefs stymied in the knowing, rigidtivists in one cultural lair relativists in the other. How are we to know if learning teaches clear that wrong in one context is heroic in another? I have sipped many brews. One I sip  most now is that of circumstance; (Situational Ethics Not.) Ethics and Morality these I cannot argue since clear in homily Wrong and Right vary; even as there be between them similarities. I for one prefer the Human Standard of Uncertainty rather than one too high exalted. More death and destruction has been dispensed by God's Appointed Saviors (GAS) than I am comfortable with. Rather, I think the standard used should be one democracy based. The life we save  is done not for morality,  or for Jesus  (to be sure we'd like that brace) but,also,too for the sanctity in which we hold all human life and for, the Probabilities. The Hopi and most of my ancestors derive this thought from the earth just as the driven waters are essential  to our birth, so,too, is each and every man woman and child's potential should be preserved. This is the key to our species' days upon this gifted earth. You nor I nor anyone knows where Potential grows, or where Progress seeds will lie;  all we know are simple Probabilities: kill not Potential and we survive, species wise; other philsophies are not so wrong as narrow and limiting of these same Possibilities. Genetically, stated  our gene pool must be large too small and our days  are short and done with. Each child is that reservoir of Possibilities. The record is quite clear: Imagination's Spark is lighting quick and can strike most anywhere. So, we ask what have we learned of this from History? What is to be gleaned there? Strong suggestive evidence is: Genius is Democratic but, alas, can work  for Good or Evil. The implication? Good is what preserves the children and increases the Probabilties that we on planet earth will have a happy future.

Copyright © November 2002 lonnie hicks


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