tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196829553153577775.post8286142041022996103..comments2023-04-06T02:30:06.988-07:00Comments on Torrent of Consciousness: Gravel In The Heart Melanie Boxallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123851168700589156noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196829553153577775.post-74954116236219364522015-05-28T08:19:22.322-07:002015-05-28T08:19:22.322-07:00Not that this is a slippery slope, but it does ill...Not that this is a slippery slope, but it does illustrate how choice and judgment go hand-in-hand. The correlation between the two is something that the greater we have wrestled with for quite some time, and with varying results. It may not be surprising to recognize that Hey! the world changes and so does 'public opinion' (a/k/a judgment). Our ideas associated with 'retribution' (heavy-handed intolerance?) for those who 'do otherwise' is also in flux. Twenty to thirty years ago, we began a 'drug war,' and today realize we have been at war with ourselves ever since, with more people behind bars, perhaps, than need be. Could resources be better spent on other 'programs?' Perhaps, yet for as much as we open our hears to hear the longing of the homosexual couple in pain, the pain of families with members 'judged' to be immoral because of drugs also tugs at our heart and purse strings. Not that the two go hand-in-hand, of course, but as we now legalize marijuana in various states in the U.S., we are starting call into question much of the judgment associated with other 'groups' we have rendered as 'less than normal.'Kathy Custrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07687890338800680972noreply@blogger.com