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Well written, thought provoking piece. Integrity seems to have fallen off our shelf of values in America.
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aardvark
on May 21, 2004 at 9:01 AM
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Editormum
Great idea and as usual, a great post. You stated, "...we've lost the idea of something being right and something else being wrong. In our society, it seems that everything is relative..." My only contention is when did we ever have it? When was the time that everything wasn't relative? The day that Thomas Jefferson wrote about all men being created equal, he went home to his slaves. I'm not singling out Jefferson or disputing his place in history. It's just a great example of how things have always been relative. Murder is wrong, yet we have the death penalty. The list goes on and on. The only standard is there really isn't a standard. It's simply the way things are. It's the way it's always been, the way it will always be.
posted by
Talion
on May 21, 2004 at 8:19 AM
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