Moral decisions 04/14/23
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Short post. I enjoyed a brief midnight pub posting from mayonoki[1].
They spoke about being sober for about 2 years (congrats!). Then they
said, "Note: This isn't a statement for how other people should live.
My sobriety is not a moral decision, purely one of survival."
Well, that got my goat a little, so I thought I might express myself
here.
I'm sober too, in the drugs/alcohol sense, but addictions of all kinds
certainly plague me as they do many in the modern world. Perhaps
someday I'll be purely sober in every sense, wouldn't that be
something? Maybe it'd be frightful, I don't know.
The thing is, my sobriety *is* a moral decision as well as a health
one. And I'm not worried about that. I mean, why not? Heck, I'll even
go so far as to say that I believe everyone should make the same moral
decision. Not that it should be *forced* on them--I don't believe that
at all--but they should make the choice.
Someone in gopherspace just recently posted a link to an article that
noted that, "even moderate drinking isn't good for your health". I
don't recall who linked it, nor do I have the link. I think Google has
it. But you know, there will always be some new study saying one
thing, and another saying the exact opposite. The choice will always
be yours.
Mayonoki didn't spell out their entire belief system or anything, so
this isn't a judgment on them. It's just a little jab to say: It's OK
to have morals. It's OK to make moral decisions. We shouldn't have to
excuse our actions and make sure that others know they're not based on
morals (though, it's fine to do that, if you really want to be sure
people know you're not doing it that way!) We should all find a way to
get along even when we're wildly different. Maybe we already do.
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gopher://midnight.pub:70/0/posts/1353
