'There is no right way to do the wrong thing.'
This 'quote of the moment' is so true in life - there is simply no right way to do the wrong thing. King and their human rights movement has shown us that there is no right way to do the wrong thing: racial discrimination, in their case.
In our relativistic society today people say that what is right for you may not be right for me. How are we to respond to such a philosophy? Well, in some situations it is true, in others it is not - and the difference is crucial. It is not right to harm others, steal from them, lie, or cheat. There is simply no right way to do such wrong things. We therefore need to take a scrutinising look at society today and rethink some of the social consequences of our so-called 'tolerance' and think ahead whether such policies and worldviews will be beneficial in 10 or 20 or 50 years time. Simply changing laws because people think and want to live differently doesn't necessarily benefit society in the long-run. It would be absurd to change traffic laws just because people want to speed or drive through a red light. Equally don't we change laws just because some things have become a common practice; some things are simply wrong and their consequences catastrophic. While some things, to be sure, need up-dating and some form of adjustment, we cannot reject good timeless values that protect people from a misuse of tolerance, freedom, and relativism.
Shalom,
Gordon
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