Consensual integrity

Consensual Integrity

fiction
edward w pritchard

There is the fact and then there is the motivation.

So many sins follow from the original motivation to let nature take it's course, the children to grow properly to adulthood, maintenance of the status quo, following the biological course of reality. Sin being later accountability for previous actions to maintain the status quo by omission from timely intervention.

Should we bear moral responsibility for not taking negative action to rectify an acknowledged fact dictated by another mover that will effect parties without legal capacity to contract or survive as independent agents? Speaking here of minor children. Some not then yet born.

We must bear moral responsibility for our actions but do we have negative responsibility for our omissions?

Don't count your sins resulting from biological dictates to maintain the species, to procreate offspring. When it comes to accounting for sins gentleness is sweet reasonableness.

Be slow to Judge. People can be good and not perfect.

Sometimes only parts of the story were told. Selective integrity compartmentalizes the truth.

One can not have endless responsibility for an act of consensual integrity.

Lord have mercy on us all.