Here's a bit of current wisdom, Richard. Exhibited by the Fair Work Commission - who would have expected it?
Melbourne street cleaner Shaun Turner has successfully challenged his sacking by Darebin City Council, after he was dismissed for questioning the use of an Acknowledgment to Country at a weekly toolbox meeting.
Turner objected when the council introduced the ritual into meetings for the street cleaning team, saying he believed Australia’s servicemen and women should be thanked instead.
"It is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp,” Turner told council managers. “I don’t need to be welcomed into my own country.”
I aprreciate the well written summary! However it is too detached from the reality lived for many poor people, who didn't have acces to Abortion. Your ideology, which seems to have good intentions, cannot permit others to suffer for the sole reason of letting your moral system intact, rather the freedom to choose gives them the personal choice, to manifest their lives in a society which would otherwise crush them or heavily disadvantage them in that case. I can follow the argument more with beauty OPs where it normalises getting them done and its only permissible for the rich. But the abortive pill was invented for example, when the French doctor Beaulieu visited the slums of India and saw the connection between poverty and high birth rates. That's said, we should work towards a free society where people will have children out of the joy of life and because they must not fear economic hardships.
For me it is a tricky concept, but you are helping to unwind it.
Appreciation of beauty is part of what might be understood as Lewis’ suggestion as being the critical basis of a relationship with a god, a maker, a founder. Whatever it is that brought or found us here. Call it what you will, recognise it as you will. We are after all here, something made that happen.
Lewis seems to be suggesting that unless we are able to see the beauty of any portion of life - which includes anything which is alive, souls available to anything living, not just us - we might fail to have sufficient coherence to either remain alive, or move ahead to the next stage. That’s an interesting if worrying concept.
Here's a bit of current wisdom, Richard. Exhibited by the Fair Work Commission - who would have expected it?
Melbourne street cleaner Shaun Turner has successfully challenged his sacking by Darebin City Council, after he was dismissed for questioning the use of an Acknowledgment to Country at a weekly toolbox meeting.
Turner objected when the council introduced the ritual into meetings for the street cleaning team, saying he believed Australia’s servicemen and women should be thanked instead.
"It is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp,” Turner told council managers. “I don’t need to be welcomed into my own country.”
https://www.rebelnews.com/worker_wins_unfair_dismissal_case_against_woke_council
I aprreciate the well written summary! However it is too detached from the reality lived for many poor people, who didn't have acces to Abortion. Your ideology, which seems to have good intentions, cannot permit others to suffer for the sole reason of letting your moral system intact, rather the freedom to choose gives them the personal choice, to manifest their lives in a society which would otherwise crush them or heavily disadvantage them in that case. I can follow the argument more with beauty OPs where it normalises getting them done and its only permissible for the rich. But the abortive pill was invented for example, when the French doctor Beaulieu visited the slums of India and saw the connection between poverty and high birth rates. That's said, we should work towards a free society where people will have children out of the joy of life and because they must not fear economic hardships.
CS Lewis. The abolition. Thanks.
For me it is a tricky concept, but you are helping to unwind it.
Appreciation of beauty is part of what might be understood as Lewis’ suggestion as being the critical basis of a relationship with a god, a maker, a founder. Whatever it is that brought or found us here. Call it what you will, recognise it as you will. We are after all here, something made that happen.
Lewis seems to be suggesting that unless we are able to see the beauty of any portion of life - which includes anything which is alive, souls available to anything living, not just us - we might fail to have sufficient coherence to either remain alive, or move ahead to the next stage. That’s an interesting if worrying concept.
So far he seems to have nailed it.