In a recent “KidNews,” a feature story concerned lying. Never in the story were the moral implications of lying mentioned. Nowhere was it stated that lying is always wrong. The article merely talked about lying and the reality of it.
The feature story in Tempo (Feb. 15), “Breaking the rules,” emphasized that we all break rules and mentioned the most common offenses. Again moral implications were omitted.
There are moral absolutes. Lying is wrong. Disobeying laws is wrong. We are a generation that has grown up in an educational atmosphere of situation ethics. Situation ethics have failed us. We have witnessed S&L scandals and congressmen bouncing checks and a host of ethical immoralities in government and business. It is time for each of us to accept the individual responsibility and accountability for all of our actions.
And as Steven Priest mentioned in “Breaking the rules,” the disobedience of Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement is in a very different league. Such movements have nothing in common with the selfish, secret illegalities in which we hope not to get caught. They have a very different purpose. That should be obvious.
