Moral Dilemmas.

[Theland]

Just sneaked back in to play games with Nailit.

So, "Moral Dilemmas."

Can you think of any that leave you unable to resolve?

[Rockrose]

Nasty!!

[nailit]

Yeah, loads.
And?

[Theland]

Rock rose - Not nasty. Moral dilemmas exist. Do we ignore them? Or in our own minds try to resolve them?

[nailit]

You have more moral dilemmas than me Theland if you believe in the God of the bible.

[Rockrose]

Yes it is nasty read the first part of your Op deliberately setting up a person for an argument

[Theland]

Whether I square the circle or not, with any moral dilemma, should I try to accommodate differing viewpoints, or just ignore it all and worry about winning the lottery, and the next episode of some TV programme?

[nailit]

//Just sneaked back in to play games with Nailit//

If that had been the other way around (in this cat) I would have been castigated from all sides. How about that for a moral dilemma?

[Mamyalynne]

Through my life certain dilemmas have proved tricky to resolve, somehow you get there with common sense and knowing you cannot and never will satisfy all concerned every time.


Oh and keep a spare key to the confessional ;-)

[Theland]

Oh Rockrose - He followed me Into the gammon soup kitchen! Honestly, not being nasty.

[Mamyalynne]

What's going on here is playground fodder not moral dilemmas, grow up a bit.

[Theland]

Nailit, my apologies. Sincerely mate.

[Theland]

Mamya - Here is something that as a society, does not make sense.
Recently on TV, and item showed Spina Bifida babies being operated on in the womb. Great. Wonderful.
Yet we kill thousands of healthy foetuses through abortion.
One laughs at the other.
Do you see my point?

[sherrardk]

‘We’ don’t kill thousands of healthy foetuses - the woman (and her partner) make a decision to end the pregnancy. You’re not comparing like with like. Yet more advocating for people not being allowed to make choices.

[nailit]

//Nailit, my apologies. Sincerely mate.//
What for?
This IS a public forum?? We can all expect to recieve (and give) a certain amount of criticism I take it?

[Atheist]

We also drool over our pets and spend fortunes on their health food and insurance, but turn a blind eye to factory farming and gammon guzzling.

[Rockrose]

Forcing a woman to go through with a pregnancy that was forced upon her is not a moral dilemma it’s a disgusting state of affairs

[nailit]

//Yet we kill thousands of healthy foetuses through abortion//
Something on which we agree (not sure how this thread came to be about abortion tho…)
Theres a massive difference between a woman becoming pregnant through force, and a woman using abortion as a means of birth control.

[Mamyalynne]

Theland, the only time abortion would become a moral dilemma to me is if it involved me and of course my partner and potential child - I have never been in that position and I thank goodness for that.

I have conversed with Women who were in that position and yes, they were eaten up in the main by their dilemmas.

I only personally ever met on young woman who was so cavalier about her third abortion that I feared she wouldn't get out of the day room in one piece.

Life is fraught for some and less so for others.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The traditional- and one of the most obvious - moral dilemmas is the "just war", Theland. Not that I can remember (if I ever knew) the details of the scholarly debate.

If you obey the Biblical injunction to "resist evil" then, if you are to be effective against a determined and ruthless enemy, you will inevitably cause what is euphemistically called "collateral damage" and harm some innocents. If, on the other hand, you obey the Biblical injunction to "turn the other cheek", you give evil a free hand and become complicit in the harming of other innocents.

You work it out, because I can't.

[vetuste_ennemi]

(Interesting to see the battlelines drawn on the issue of the abortion debate: Pro-Life v Woman's Right to Choose. I think there is considerably more moral nuance than those crude opposites allow.)