Reflexão

 

Hiroshima

Fulton Sheen, during a talk to school students about sex, said the moral turning point of the country was "8:15 in the morning, the 6th of August, 1945" when the world changed: The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima blotted out boundaries.  There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, and the living and the dead.  For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half dead.  So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. ... You want no restraint, no boundaries.  I have to do what I want to do.

 

Years ago, the renowned Catholic theologian Joseph Pieper privately observed (to a friend of mine) that Americans need to come to terms with the immorality of the World War II atomic bombings before we can make real progress in stigmatizing abortion.  The moral arguments justifying abortion and the bombings are remarkably similar: The actions are necessary as "a lesser evil" or to "prevent a greater evil."

 

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