Theos-Talk Archives (May 2002 Message tt00107)

Good moral/ethical question. We'll think about it (although much more data 
is needed to make a properly considered judgment). But, this "example" has 
nothing to do with what the initial 2nd question intended us to think about 
(e.g., with respect to a tendency to judge people's overall character based 
on disconnected bits of specific positive or negative facts about them). The 
questions were perfectly valid in that context. 

In a message dated 05/09/02 11:32:40 PM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> Are Eldon and Dallas the only ones here who understood the message of
>> the "2 questions for thinkers"?
>
> Did I know what the questions were supposed to mean? Yes, I did. Did I
>think they were good examples of what they were supposed to mean? No, I
>thought that they were completely invalid as examples. 
>
> You want a REAL example question? A mother gives up her child for
>adoption, with the proviso that she has 30 days to change her mind. 25
>days after giving birth, she changes her mind. Rather than give back the
>child, the prospective adoptive parents flee to another state with the
>child. Due to legal entanglements, the final decision does not take
>place until the child is 5 years old. What is the best decision: Give
>the child to the natural mother, or to the adoptive parents, which were
>the only parents she has known in her life?