GirlChat #602560
Re: The Complexities of using Augustinian definitions
Posted by qtns2di4 on Saturday, September 20 2014 at 04:56:11AM
In reply to Re: The Complexities of using Augustinian definitions posted by WalkingInThePark on Friday, September 19 2014 at 8:06:02PM
|
If I see someone I care about doing something I know isn't good for them then I should do the right thing and confront them about it even if it hurts them emotionally. I recognized all of those cases: But, assuming the meaning I consider most logical: that sometimes people can learn through pain more than they can from being spared that pain; then that is still making the other person happy. You are exchanging present happiness for a distant, but larger, happiness. You are still not hurting; just choosing to maximize in the long term rather than the short term. And: To me that is called "human decency" and love goes beyond that. It goes further and deeper than decency. Giving a sick child a medicine and soup is decency. Tucking them into bed next is love. And same, if reverse, for discipline. Decency only demands to prevent the urgent and preventable. It is love which turns it into a pretext to show closeness and commitment. And: This doesn't mean I have never disagreed with my LGFs. It means that if I disagree I have to tell them how (implicitly why) my impression of their needs is different to theirs.  |
Follow ups: