no answers
I’ve been back at school moving in all week and I’m away from my computer and that’s why I haven’t been blogging very regularly.
I thought, with the short time I am near a computer with internet, I would share some thoughts. I’ve been thinking a lot about resolving conflict. Especially in times like these our culture is faced with huge questions about war and peace—about passivism and justice. I am in a strange place because I know what’s wrong but I’m not sure what’s right. I know that war is not the answer, killing the very people we’re supposed to love, namely our enemies, doesn’t make sense. But the immediate question that comes after a suggestion of this nature is, “well, what are we supposed to do?” And I don’t know. What should we have done in World War II? What should we have done about Saddam Hussein? I don’t know…
So my question for today is… what do you do when you don’t have any answers? Do you abandon any project to stop doing what’s wrong simply because you don’t have perfect suggestions? We do indeed need to move beyond the just-war/passivism debate and on to real solutions, but we can’t go one way or another without addressing it. It’s good to protest war, but it’s better to make alternative suggestions… and right now, I am just not sure I have them.
I thought, with the short time I am near a computer with internet, I would share some thoughts. I’ve been thinking a lot about resolving conflict. Especially in times like these our culture is faced with huge questions about war and peace—about passivism and justice. I am in a strange place because I know what’s wrong but I’m not sure what’s right. I know that war is not the answer, killing the very people we’re supposed to love, namely our enemies, doesn’t make sense. But the immediate question that comes after a suggestion of this nature is, “well, what are we supposed to do?” And I don’t know. What should we have done in World War II? What should we have done about Saddam Hussein? I don’t know…
So my question for today is… what do you do when you don’t have any answers? Do you abandon any project to stop doing what’s wrong simply because you don’t have perfect suggestions? We do indeed need to move beyond the just-war/passivism debate and on to real solutions, but we can’t go one way or another without addressing it. It’s good to protest war, but it’s better to make alternative suggestions… and right now, I am just not sure I have them.