I can remember being a kid and being told what was right versus what was wrong...what was good versus bad; well behaved versus naughty, yes versus no, etc..and as a child it seemed all so black and white.
A lie was a lie and there was nothing to it, stealing was wrong, life versus death, going to church each weekend, what words were allowed to be said and what was a "swear" word...black and white no grey area.
However, the older I've gotten the more I've come to realize that this world isn't all black and white, and that there is not always a right or wrong answer. Sometimes a lie or a "white lie" as we often call it is a necessary tactic....try telling a pregnant woman that she looks fat it doesn't go over to well, instead we tell them they look great, that they're "glowing"....how the heck does a person "glow." When a woman asks there significant other if they look fat in a pair of pants, they don't want the honest truth, they want to be told that they look good. See lying, or not lying isn't always so black and white. I'm not saying lying is justified, and that you should lie. You shouldn't lie to a cop when they ask you questions in an investigation; you shouldn't lie to put blame on another person when you are at fault for something. There are times, most in fact when lying isn't the way to go, but sometimes....just sometimes, a lie is necessary.
Murder isn't okay either, and yet our society has decided the death penalty is a necessity. Black and white growing up, I always thought it wasn't okay to have the death penalty because in my mind things were black and white and the death penalty was a form of murder and murder wasn't okay. But the more I've grown up, the more I've traveled, the more I've seen how necessary it may be. I don't think taking a life is ever okay. But when I think about Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, etc...my insides turn and make flip floppy sounds and I can see and understand why the death penalty is a reality and a necessity in our society. I think too often we're quick to say lets just through the death penalty at someone for doing something, but rather we should try to see what the root of the problem is, can a person be rehabilitated or not? Black or white, or is there a grey area....grey area's do exist.
Black or white...politics. With everything going in on our society as of late....liberals versus conservatives....the far right versus the far left.....is there a right side or a wrong side. I used to side with one side of the other, but the truth is the older I've gotten the more I've realized just how not black and white things are and just how much I fall in the middle of things. Some issues I side with the conservatives, some I side with the liberals, but most of the time, I fall in my own little world of somewhere in the middle. Its not all black and white with politics, there is a grey area.
Black and white.....write versus wrong, its not always one or the other, there is a grey area. A big issue in our society lately has been women rights, especially in relation to Abortion. Here's the thing, and for those who know me it might surprise them..but I'm pro-choice. I'm Pro-Choice and here is why...when people talk about pro-life versus pro-choice, the biggest issues to arise is the life of the baby...but here's the thing, but about the life of the woman carrying the child. In our society today we focus a lot on how we should make abortions illegal, about how the conception point is when a baby is a baby; but what about the woman and her life. Here is the thing, if we ban abortions, if we make them illegal again, that doesn't mean that people are going to stop having abortions. Women who want to have an abortion are still going to have them, and here's the thing we make them illegal then the women who are going to have them regardless of what society says is legal are going to start goings back to the old days where people went to random storage sheds and peoples garages to have them; and don't think that just because they're illegal people are going to stop performing them, they're is always going to be that one person who wants money and is willing to do what ever it takes to make it even if it means performing some sketchy abortion in a garage. I would rather have abortions legal and in a safe environment done by people who know what they are doing where the woman having it can live and potentially have a chance to come around and accept Christ, and repent, then have them die on the table in some random person's garage. never having had a chance to realize that maybe there was a way. That's not to say that I think all people having abortions aren't Christians, because, yes they're are Christians out they're who've made mistakes...but its to say that I want ot be able to give people the chance to make that decision to accept Christ, and to repent if they want...but honestly that's only one part of why I'm Pro-Choice...
I'm pro-choice, because I am pro-life...but I'm pro-life of all humans....
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