Ponderings
21 October 2009 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonThere was a story on NPR this morning about pet health insurance.
I would like to say that I love animals. They make our lives immeasurably better in so many ways. There is a cat in Philadelphia who will leave me heartbroken when he dies.
That said, I'm really not sure about pet health insurance. Yes, in my perfect world, no animal would be put down for medical issues that could be easily treated. But I have difficulty countenancing giving a level of medical security to our pets that we can't guarantee to our citizens.
Thoughts?
On other moral issues:
-I believe that, as a Christian, I should love my neighbor.
-I also believe that, as a Christian, I should not lie (less obvious, but I take a certain bible verse to mean that I should not swear to tell the truth and I affirm that I am telling the truth instead, which to me implies that I've been telling the truth this whole time.
Most of you are aware that I have a history of not getting along with my ex-next-door-neighbor A.
I saw her in the dining hall yesterday, and we smiled and waved and generally behaved like we liked each other.
I do not like her.
So here's the question:
Is it better to lie by my actions and have the outward appearance of loving my neighbor?
Or to be honest and not like her at all.
Clearly the best option is to actually like her, but I'm not that far yet.
I would like to say that I love animals. They make our lives immeasurably better in so many ways. There is a cat in Philadelphia who will leave me heartbroken when he dies.
That said, I'm really not sure about pet health insurance. Yes, in my perfect world, no animal would be put down for medical issues that could be easily treated. But I have difficulty countenancing giving a level of medical security to our pets that we can't guarantee to our citizens.
Thoughts?
On other moral issues:
-I believe that, as a Christian, I should love my neighbor.
-I also believe that, as a Christian, I should not lie (less obvious, but I take a certain bible verse to mean that I should not swear to tell the truth and I affirm that I am telling the truth instead, which to me implies that I've been telling the truth this whole time.
Most of you are aware that I have a history of not getting along with my ex-next-door-neighbor A.
I saw her in the dining hall yesterday, and we smiled and waved and generally behaved like we liked each other.
I do not like her.
So here's the question:
Is it better to lie by my actions and have the outward appearance of loving my neighbor?
Or to be honest and not like her at all.
Clearly the best option is to actually like her, but I'm not that far yet.
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Date: 22 Oct 2009 12:47 pm (UTC)Sometimes people are easiest not to hate from a distance. Politeness is a way to ease the difficulties of living in a society. Maintaining a civil society is REALLY important.
And, to tie the two threads together, it's a lot easier to love the being who loves you back, in your apartment, than the being you don't know, freezing in your alley. I would be nice if we really felt other humans were our kin, but I think there are too many of us. Not a reason not to try to treat people justl, though.