MistressDREAD
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Standing up for values in todays world regardless if vanilla or alternate is the defining feature of moral courage. But having values is different from living by values-as the twenty-first century is rapidly learning and we all must learn to become courages in our health and safety and its morality. The U.S. soldiers who abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, the CEO of Italian food giant Parmalat who kept quiet as financial malfeasance proliferated with tainted food, the Olympic athletes who succumbed to steroids, the American president who deceived the world about his sexual escapades-these were not horned and forktailed devils utterly devoid of values. Yet in moments of moral and health consequence they failed to act with integrity. Why? Because they lacked the moral courage that lifts values and saftey from the theoretical to the practical and carries us beyond ethical reasoning into principled action and safety and sanity. In the defining moments of our lives-whether as a student watching a videotape of rape or a president facing a nation, values count for little without the willingness to put them into practice be it in the vanilla society or with in Our Alternate Lifestyle living and stand up against the majority. Without moral courage, our brightest virtues rust from lack of use. With it, we build piece by piece a more ethically safe world for all both in the vanilla world and Our Own Alternate world. JMPO
< Message edited by MistressDREAD -- 2/6/2005 7:07:45 AM >
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