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OpinionLetter: Knowing right and wrongTo the editor: Recently, the distinction between right and wrong has taken a nebulous turn. No longer can one simply rely on their parents or their parentsí value system. No longer can one simply rely on the Sunday sermon to provide the answers. No longer can one simply rely on the court system to uphold moral intellect and finally, no longer can one simply rely on their political leaders to maintain the distinction between right and wrong. Today we as individuals are faced with defining our own distinction between whatís right and whatís wrong. There will always be the obvious. For example, murder is wrong and loving your children is right. But what about the not so obvious: killing in self-defense, recognition of same sex marriages, gay priests, abortion, taxes, the Iraqi War, prayer in school, Pledge of Allegiance, Israel, Palenstine, divorce, biotechnology, stem cell research ... the list goes on and on. Why, one may ask, is it important to be right and not wrong? Itís not, necessarily, important. It is the knowledge of right versus wrong that has maintained the virtues of our constitution. It was in the knowledge of right versus wrong that provided the unrelenting resolve needed to gain our freedoms and the same resolve is needed today to keep our freedoms. Eric Hanson ©ECM Post Review |