(May 6, 2012 at 11:25 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:if any, compromise on your personal principles is acceptable to achieve what you think is a greater good.
What do you mean by "the common good"? If you mean some amorphous mass of anonymous others I don't care about,their interests invariably come a poor second to my own. I DID sometimes compromise 'for my mates' in the army and will sometimes do so for my family and others I care about.
"Greater good", not "common good". As in the greater good achieved by maximizing my involvement in my son's life and that of his friends.
Quote:However, I agree with you about the bigotry in the scouting movement. For that reason I would not allow my child to join,period. Seeing you have already compromised your principles in allowing your son to join the scouts,I think you have an obligation to him to support him in any way possible,including direct involvement. I'm having trouble understanding your apparent hypocrisy,so I'm guessing a ten year old might too.
It's not really a question of allowing him to join, really. His mother is his primary guardian. We don't see eye-to-eye on this issue (she's a fundamentalist xtian), and I don't interfere with her telling him what her beliefs are, and she gives the same courtesy. He's allowed to decide for himself what he believes and what his interests are (to a degree).
