Choices and consequences

by Jack Grant

In catching up on things upon my return from my travels, I encounter a tale that Harry Boswell at The Kudzu Files pointed to, a story of a personal turning point that throws in stark relief how shallow the daily politics that flood blogworld really are when we are confronted with the reality of suffering and death, consequences arising not from violence but from poor choices.

Read it.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.    -Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
   -Epictetus

I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
   -Stephen Millich

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
   -James Madison
    4th US president (1751 - 1836)

...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
   -Scott Adams
   cartoonist and satirist

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
   -H. H. Williams

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
   -Peter da Silva

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‘No man is an island-’ Much as we may fell and act as individuals, our race is a single organism, always growing and branching - which must be pruned regularly to be healthy. This necessity need not be argued; anyone with eyes can see that any organism which grows without limit always dies in its own poisons. The only rational question is whether pruning is best done before or after birth.

Being an incurable sentimentalist I favor the former of these methods - killing makes me queasy, even when it’s a case of ‘He’s dead and I’m alive and that’s the way I wanted it to be.’

But this may be a matter of taste. Some shamans think that it is better to be killed in a war, or to die in childbirth, or to starve in misery, than never to have lived at all. They may be right.

But I don’t have to like it - and I don’t.

—Lazarus Long

One more roll of the dice…

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