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Monday, January 29, 2007

Follow-up to Selflessness

I succeeded in creating a heated debate from my previous post. It's always rewarding to take in other points of view to assuage my own and see how much my stubborn side budges. Maybe I've read too much Schopenhauer, watched too much news and/or have visited one to many poor countries but no argument changes how I feel about adoption. I don't believe in the Bell Curve as a measure of success so "good genes or not" everybody is capable of becoming an Albert Einstein, Rembrandt or President of the U.S. (obviously). It might be more difficult for those with impairments or lower I.Q.'s but nothing is impossible with the right attitude. And until you've been in places with thousands of babies waiting for their turn at adoption (the documentary I shot last year) it's hard to embrace artificial insemination, hormone treatments and/or parents having more than 2 or 3 children before considering adoption. Parents who have no way to support, nurture, provide and positively influence a child’s life do the most noble thing - they give someone else a chance to do so. What could be more gratifying to the child, the parent as well as the couple adopting? I'm searching for enlightenment here so anyone with a wiser understanding of this would be appreciated!

1 Comments:

At 11:46 AM, Blogger roberts said...

One has to ask oneself am I really selfish.According to Oxford this is one who is selfish.Acting or done according to one's own intrests and needs without regard for those of others,keeping good things for oneself and not sharing.From what I have read from your blogs this is not you.Maybe there are selfish people reading your blog,about having children.I wonder if Max would give up his grandson when he is old enough to go in the service.Yes children are wonderfull but because one is intelligent it does not mean they should do something that is not right for them.Any person who thinks that you as a young intelligent women should have children of her own,that is the selfish person.When one makes a choice that is that person's right to make and not anyone should try and change how that person feels about her or his choice.I think you have given both sides to this question and have been fair in doing so.Why do people have a problem dealing with a person choice because it does not fit into the way they were indoctrinated my there family and our society.We would be a greater nation if we were more tolerant of others views.Please do not impugn your thought process,we do not all have to agree but we should all think of peoples rights.This would be a sad world without people like you.Great Job and please keep thinking about how we make this world a better place for all.

 

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