In the
town of Greensville, there was a principal that ran away from the local
authorities. He is wanted for sexual assault and stealing. This man has been
the principal in Greensville high school for 20 years. Many people in the
community were completely shocked to find that this man was capable of these
actions. Some are denying that it is even possible and that it must be a
mistake. But do you? Let’s be honest you are not that shocked. You have come
accustomed to hearing these horror stories. Teacher raped students, students
bullied kid to suicide, student shoots 20 children; have become a normal in
America’s media empire. So the question begs: Why is this happening? How did we
get like this? Has it always been this way? Can we fix it?
I do
not like to use the word society, because it shifts blame from individuals to
an arbitrary group of people. So I am
going to say individuals and dare I say educators, have desensitized our sense
of morality. We have become a people that no longer stand by our principles. The only principle that we have been taught is that there
is no absolute truth, because everything is relative. It has become immoral to
be moral. The world extremist is a negative word in our culture, but what does
it really mean? Consistent. An extremist is someone who will not compromise his
principles. He stands by them no matter what the pressure of the masses are and
it does not matter how much money is thrown at him. He is someone that will not
back down and will do anything to change the course of evil.
Compromise is looked at as the ultimate principle.
We become upset with congress when they do not pass laws, but what we fail to
understand is that when they start comprising they start creating thousands of
new laws. For example, the Affordable Health Care Act has over 20,000 pages of
new regulation. There was no compromise here. One group got what they wanted
and the other group signed off on it. (To clarify, I am using this piece of law
as an example of compromise not of a moral or immoral piece of legislation.) It
would be better for the men and women of congress to stand for by their
principles and vote on issues the way they said that they would vote to the
people that elected them…
Whoa,
almost got off track there. Let us start calling a compromise what it is: a
person who as a value and gives up part of that value for someone else. It is
not selling your soul to the devil, it is selling parts of your soul. Which if
we are going to define that in a white and black (absolute morals), we would
consider that? But you are still not convinced of black and white, so let me
explain in gray scale (moral relativity). As one starts to compromise his or
her principle where on the scale do they start to go? They start becoming
darker? Why? Because under your own subconscious you are really referring to a
black and white scale and you are adding more black to their morality.
If we
dig a little deeper as to why we cling to the gray scale, then we would find
that we believe in grayness, because we do not think that we can be wholly good
or wholly evil, therefore we must be both. So the truth is that people do not
want to put the effort to be good and condemn those that try to be wholly good
or evil. One might also say that it is impossible to be good to which I would
say, if your law is so complex that it does not allow people to be good then
the law itself is evil. Our law must be good and therefore allow us to be good.
Remember this does not mean compromise this means that a good law does not have
contradictions.
In conclusion, we the people need to stop our run away from principles and turn around and start walking. I say walking because this is going to be something that needs to be closely examined. We do not need to be making rash decisions. We must think! We must use the mind that we were given to process what is truth and what are lies, what is good and what is evil. If we do not stand for something than we will die for nothing. I would like to leave you with a quote from my favorite author (Terry Goodkind) and book (Faith of the Fallen): “The first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this ineducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built...that is the foundation from which life is embraced... thinking is a choice...wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discover them... reason is our only way of grasping reality--it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking--to reject reason--but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see... Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting reason one embraces death.”
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