Re: Firefighters did the Christian thing in letting house burn to the ground
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> tangientially, do you really believe a matter of helping others is >> only a moral one if their life is at stake?) > > It is a difference of degree. Morally, I feel more obligation to save > someone's life if I can, than to prevent him from losing property due to > his own foolish decision. But that's not the dilemma that was presented to these firefighters. Their dilemma was whether to help someone in desperate need, someone who didn't buy their help, or not. And they chose wrongly. It *is* moral cowardice and selfishness, and to paint it otherwise is to defend an unconscionable act. You say you, personally, would help a neighbor whose house was burning down, but that the firefighters shouldn't have. I say when any entity is doing something that no individual would or could defend, there is a problem. If I recall correctly, you are against corporations for that very reason. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot