by Tdarcos » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:09 pm
The movie "30" with Jack Webb as the editor of the #2 Los Angeles Newspaper is discussing with his best friend, the lead transcriber who takes field reports over the phone from reporters and transcribes them.
The story is taking place in the late 1950s, and he's discussing with her how he and his wife are planning to (locally) adopt a child (of about 8 or 10). She says she knows, and he says, "How?"
"You listed me as a reference on the application form."
He's got second thoughts about whether they should be adopting, possibly wondering if it was the right thing (perhaps as opposed to having one of their own), are they good enough to be parents, and all the other problems he can see.
"Look, the only difference between having your own child and adopting is you bring one home from a building and the other from a hospital. It's what you do with them and what you teach them that counts."
Now, obviously the human race is not going to die out any time, but look people: children are the future. They are going to be the ones who have to take over from us when we leave this world. If we fail in that we conceivably fail as a species.
If we can look at what is commendable and what is deplorable, what do we see as good, and right, and honorable? That which supports children and our future, because it is the only way our genes and our ideas can survive to continue. What do we see as evil, as wrong, and deplorable? That which destroys children and damages our future.
Lifeboat rules call for "women and children first." The 9 pound cat who so viciously defends her kittens that she drives off a 60 pound dog. The woman who gives up her life to save her child. These and other stories carry forward the life-affirming actions of that which touch us and affirm the value of life.
A can that eats its kittens. Susan Smith, who strapped her children into her car, and drove it into the lake, betraying the trust of her children, and murdering them. A religious fanatic who, believing that they should not treat their children, allows them to die of a disease or condition easily treated. These and other stories point backward as life-destroying actions of that which sicken and disgust us and have no value at all.
These are the reasons we see providing for children as a positive benefit. Because, as England Dan and John Ford Coley sang in Love is the Answer: "Who knows why / Someday we all must die." But the care and upbringing of children gives us the capacity to do more than merely live, but to pass on our ideas and values to our descendants.
The movie "30" with Jack Webb as the editor of the #2 Los Angeles Newspaper is discussing with his best friend, the lead transcriber who takes field reports over the phone from reporters and transcribes them.
The story is taking place in the late 1950s, and he's discussing with her how he and his wife are planning to (locally) adopt a child (of about 8 or 10). She says she knows, and he says, "How?"
"You listed me as a reference on the application form."
He's got second thoughts about whether they should be adopting, possibly wondering if it was the right thing (perhaps as opposed to having one of their own), are they good enough to be parents, and all the other problems he can see.
"Look, the only difference between having your own child and adopting is you bring one home from a building and the other from a hospital. It's what you do with them and what you teach them that counts."
Now, obviously the human race is not going to die out any time, but look people: children are the future. They are going to be the ones who have to take over from us when we leave this world. If we fail in that we conceivably fail as a species.
If we can look at what is commendable and what is deplorable, what do we see as good, and right, and honorable? That which supports children and our future, because it is the only way our genes and our ideas can survive to continue. What do we see as evil, as wrong, and deplorable? That which destroys children and damages our future.
Lifeboat rules call for "women and children first." The 9 pound cat who so viciously defends her kittens that she drives off a 60 pound dog. The woman who gives up her life to save her child. These and other stories carry forward the life-affirming actions of that which touch us and affirm the value of life.
A can that eats its kittens. Susan Smith, who strapped her children into her car, and drove it into the lake, betraying the trust of her children, and murdering them. A religious fanatic who, believing that they should not treat their children, allows them to die of a disease or condition easily treated. These and other stories point backward as life-destroying actions of that which sicken and disgust us and have no value at all.
These are the reasons we see providing for children as a positive benefit. Because, as England Dan and John Ford Coley sang in [i]Love is the Answer[/i]: "Who knows why / Someday we all must die." But the care and upbringing of children gives us the capacity to do more than merely live, but to pass on our ideas and values to our descendants.