Twenty-first century people face a big list of moral dilemmas.
1) Should Iranian women burn their headscarves and protest in the streets because Tehran’s morality police killed Mahsa Amini, the young woman caught in public without the full hijab attire? Should they protest publicly even when doing so means risking their own lives? 2) Should the Patriarch of Moscow condemn the wanton destruction and death caused by his friend and benefactor Vladimir Putin? Should he say Mass in that beautiful new cathedral dedicated to the military that Putin built for him? 3) Should Americans generously and freely provide all immigrants with housing, health care, phones, education, and protection? Should they do that personally, or should they just have the government do that for them and avoid the inconvenience of doing so face-to-face? And should the people of Martha’s Vineyard cast out 53 migrants from an island that somehow handles over 100,000 tourists each summer on the grounds that the island has insufficient facilities? And what about New York City? Should the city house immigrants bussed from border states in the newly formed Bidenville tent city, where the large tents can sleep 1,000 on cots barrack style? 4) Should the UN cast Russian ambassadors out onto the streets of the East Side and off the Security Council? Or should the ambassadors of all the countries ignore Putin’s threat of nuclear war and sit by idly while discussing the so-called existential threat of climate change? 5) Is climate change a moral issue as some argue? Have you switched completely from fossil fuels to Solar, Hydro, nuclear, or gerbil power yet? 6) Should felons run free rather than pay bail? Should any legislator, prosecutor, judge, or parole board suffer any consequences of decisions that allowed violent offenders to reoffend upon release under the no bail policies? 7) Should Catholic priests and evangelical ministers condemn the support so many in their congregations give to abortion and by doing so risk seeing less money in their collections? 8) Is human life an inalienable right? Or, is human life an arbitrarily defined entity dependent for its value and right on the opinion du jour and in situ? 9) Should biological men be allowed to use women’s restrooms or locker rooms because they declare themselves to be women? is this a moral issue or just one involving an open or closed toilet seat? 10) Is censorship by the few a sufficient guide to rectitude for the many? 11) Should you buy a product—regardless of your desire or need for it—from a “woke” company that operates on values you do not perceive to be moral or ethical? 12) Should you respectfully bury recently deceased Aunt Zelda or put her body in the composting pile as you are allowed to do in California, Washington, Colorado, Vermont, and Oregon? If a human body now has thousands of synthetic--many carcinogenic-- compounds from plastics and other sources, is composting really a way of saving the environment and humanity? Or will Aunt Zelda's body poison the kale served at an upscale bistro next year? 13) ...
No doubt you can list other dilemmas we twenty-first century people face.
1) Should Iranian women burn their headscarves and protest in the streets because Tehran’s morality police killed Mahsa Amini, the young woman caught in public without the full hijab attire? Should they protest publicly even when doing so means risking their own lives? 2) Should the Patriarch of Moscow condemn the wanton destruction and death caused by his friend and benefactor Vladimir Putin? Should he say Mass in that beautiful new cathedral dedicated to the military that Putin built for him? 3) Should Americans generously and freely provide all immigrants with housing, health care, phones, education, and protection? Should they do that personally, or should they just have the government do that for them and avoid the inconvenience of doing so face-to-face? And should the people of Martha’s Vineyard cast out 53 migrants from an island that somehow handles over 100,000 tourists each summer on the grounds that the island has insufficient facilities? And what about New York City? Should the city house immigrants bussed from border states in the newly formed Bidenville tent city, where the large tents can sleep 1,000 on cots barrack style? 4) Should the UN cast Russian ambassadors out onto the streets of the East Side and off the Security Council? Or should the ambassadors of all the countries ignore Putin’s threat of nuclear war and sit by idly while discussing the so-called existential threat of climate change? 5) Is climate change a moral issue as some argue? Have you switched completely from fossil fuels to Solar, Hydro, nuclear, or gerbil power yet? 6) Should felons run free rather than pay bail? Should any legislator, prosecutor, judge, or parole board suffer any consequences of decisions that allowed violent offenders to reoffend upon release under the no bail policies? 7) Should Catholic priests and evangelical ministers condemn the support so many in their congregations give to abortion and by doing so risk seeing less money in their collections? 8) Is human life an inalienable right? Or, is human life an arbitrarily defined entity dependent for its value and right on the opinion du jour and in situ? 9) Should biological men be allowed to use women’s restrooms or locker rooms because they declare themselves to be women? is this a moral issue or just one involving an open or closed toilet seat? 10) Is censorship by the few a sufficient guide to rectitude for the many? 11) Should you buy a product—regardless of your desire or need for it—from a “woke” company that operates on values you do not perceive to be moral or ethical? 12) Should you respectfully bury recently deceased Aunt Zelda or put her body in the composting pile as you are allowed to do in California, Washington, Colorado, Vermont, and Oregon? If a human body now has thousands of synthetic--many carcinogenic-- compounds from plastics and other sources, is composting really a way of saving the environment and humanity? Or will Aunt Zelda's body poison the kale served at an upscale bistro next year? 13) ...
No doubt you can list other dilemmas we twenty-first century people face.
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