iambiguous,
I think that we all need to be cautious and uncomfortable in a good way when it comes to divulging information on line, especially out in the open forum. There are people who just cannot be trusted and there are those who can be.
It’s quite intelligent and sane and rational NOT to. But I wasn’t so much talking about doing that as much as I was perhaps speaking about someone skirting a particular issue of their lives and showing how that person came to realize that what they thought just wasn’t so - in other words, our so-called objective point of view eventually came to be realized as a subjective point of view, which also at some point we come to realize that the whole tamale, that point of view has changed.
I don’t want to derail the thread here but I kind of see an ethical problem even in doing that. Unless a person reveals something his/her -self, even to reveal something without naming names I don’t think is right.
Is this real or just a scenario?
Hmmm…that’s kind of a slippery slope for me but then i don’t have all the information, i mean, what you did exactly. Again, was that a real situation which led to those negative consequences?
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying here, when it comes to ethics or any human psychology, there is no just either/or I don’t think. But I suppose that at some point, it has to come down to that after much reflection and sometimes the more we reflect the more chaos enters our mind.
As for this which was asked Phyllo (I think)
I think what needs to be done here is to first put YOUR moral obligation in confronting here. I think that moral is subjective. As for myself, I would feel it necessary to respond to her in some way - try to get her to keep the baby and then if she still didn’t want it, to have the child adopted out. For me, after a certain point I would consider it to be murder but that’s just me. Some people only see human after birth - they don’t see human potential, they don’t see the pain which that unborn child would necessarily experience. They also don’t see that if given time, they might have changed their mind but they need to think these things out long before. But that’s just me. Since you mentioned abortion. I am anti abortion still am but at some point I lessened my constraint on that just a bit. I used to feel that every child no matter what had a right to be born…even those who it was known would have been born with a degree of brain damange. I’ve since changed my mind on that. I’m not speaking of children with Down Syndrome. We’ve come a long way since then and these children sometimes live more productive lives than those who do not have Down Syndrome.I must have been insane to think thought that all children needed to be saved. . One also has to come from the child’s quality of life, the child’s life, not just the convenience of the mother. If there is so little quality of life then what is the actual purpose of bringing that child into the world, but for his/her sake alone.
I’ve experienced through a friend the lack of quality, of mostly anything and everything, in the life of a child who will have very little quality of life. It was that child who changed my view on that. I felt at one time that every child had the right to its own life, no matter what. But I don’t think that way anymore considering the circumstances of what I have seen and experienced in “this” child. I just mention that to show that our perspectives and beliefs change, we come to think differently morally and ethically based on different experiences. We change our midns about things. They interface with the world and we see things as our mind sees them according to how we identify ourselves but one day they interface and we see things with different eyes. Things are not, cannot be so written in stone…unless our brains and our minds are written in stone. I think that we’re sometimes afraid to let ourselves be open to change and to a differen perspective and to the perspectives of others. We immediately close ourselves up. It is only we who are right in our “objectivity” until as some point, if we’re lucky, we come to realize just how subjective our “truth” is and not necessarily truth at all. But who knows. We have to give up the identification of that human being in part who we see ourselves as.
We are rivers and we need to flow like the river does. lol As rivers, we carry things along with us, new and fresh things and we leave other things behind. Sorry for derailing the thread.