Randy David on Enrile and Solis: "The question that rushed to my mind was: Where do young people like Mark Joseph Solis learn their ethics? My suspicion is that they don’t. They witness the collapse of traditional morality in their elders and leaders, and soon they are led to believe that anything goes in the quest for success, power and wealth. Skeptical of the legal system, and lacking any guidance, they begin to view the world with the cold eyes of predators that must prevail at any cost. This is clearly the opposite of the “Calidad Humana” that the Chilean ambassador generously extols in us. But, perhaps, in quite another sense, this too is an integral part of being human—to be lost in a world that has become too complex to navigate with old moral compasses. Those tools were appropriate for a time when parents had control over their children’s time, when teaching was a holistic face-to-face encounter, when public officials behaved honorably because they regarded public service as a vocation. Today’s challenge is to find an ethical way of being human in a world that has become too fragmented to be governed by a single moral code." Read more: opinion.inquirer.net/61979/calidad-humana#ixzz2fxyXfTC3 Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:27:30 +0000
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