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Let's Re-Visit Moral Relativism
Okay, today is Lesson Two (for Lesson One, please click here)
for those extremely upright absolute paragons of virtue, whose
no-shades-of-gray view on life provides them an untarnished pedestal to
pontificate on the lax moral reasoning and waffling values of others.
Open your history book to November 6, 1963 and read on (link for the following article):
No, I come not to crucify Laura Bush for some possible political advantage. That would be immoral, even to us relativists. ;-)05/03/00
Mrs. Bush now is the wife of Republican presidential nominee-to-be George W. Bush, the Texas governor.
Mrs. Bush ran stop sign in fatal crash
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Details in a 1963 accident report say that Laura Bush, then 17, ran a stop sign in the Texas crash that killed a friend in another car. The report, adding information to previous reports of the crash, was released to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
''It was a very tragic accident that deeply affected the families and was very painful for all involved, including the community at large,'' said Mrs. Bush's spokesman, Andrew Malcolm. ''To this day, Mrs. Bush remains unable to talk about it.''
She did say in March, when asked at a campaign stop about the crash, ''I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing...for the family involved and for me as well.''
There had been published accounts of the accident, but city officials had declined to release the records because those involved were under 18. The police report was released Wednesday in response to an open-records request that was submitted to Midland officials in March.
According to the two-page accident report, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas.
Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.
The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.
Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank.
''As far as we know, no charges were filed,'' said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ''I don't think it's unusual that charges weren't filed.''
The point is if your prism in life is strictly black/white, right/wrong, then it follows that Laura Bush killed someone and escaped receiving a just penalty as a result of her life-taking negligence. This is a debt she has yet to pay--to the young man whose life was ended, to his family and to society.
For whatever reasons, no criminal or civil legal actions were filed against her, an unusual inaction despite the above comment to the contrary by the Midland city attorney. I cannot vouch for 1963 Texas law but manslaughter is generally defined as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice or premeditation, either express or implied, and Texas is not a state generally known for legal leniency.
Obviously, Laura Bush had no intent to take a life but that is what she did. So wouldn't this put her in the same 'camp' as those who undergo an abortion? Isn't a life a life?
Now, I don't expect to hear from you about extenuating circumstances and the such.
Go ahead, climb the pedestal and tell us where you are on this one.
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