THINKING ETHICALLY and making good decisions challenge our psyche so often that at times we begin to feel completely incapacitated. Moral issues create dilemmas at every turn—we confront secular and spiritual musings that wage cerebral conflicts within us. Interpersonal relationships, politics, social issues, financial choices, medical decisions and historical events can set the mind ajar. Reflections on historical crises can turn inquiring minds upside down when pondering dark events. In 1968, Eli Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and literary activist wrote a single one-act play originally in French. On the brink of destruction in a ghetto a Nazi commander randomly picks three Jews out of a crowd giving them the incredible task of sealing the fate of one of his fellow Jews. Will he be prepared to sacrifice one of his brothers for the good of the community, or will he choose to rebel against his oppressors which would destroy the ghetto itself? Moral and ethical decisions are decisions that cannot be made in haste.
Well said!