Or here or there. On one side or the other. Right left. No hesitation, no hesitation, woe the middle ways. Touch to take sides, or you are fearful, indifferent, cynical, or worse accomplice. From Passatists remember The Aurea Medietas Which was a sign of nobility of mind and wisdom for the classics, the benefit of doubt, the flag of the most enlightened and progressive.
In the middle, only the Ignavi, unable to indignation. First hesitating, but with growing annoyance, I am maturing the belief that instead Do not take sides both a real ideal positionis the real resistance. First of all, to stand up and safe firm and safe, it is up to knowing, and is known by studying, with long times and patience. All the more if they are peoples, not only of biographies of the most chipped cases of crime.
Because you must also deploy on the news, guilty or innocent, winners and losers, all criminologists, psychologists, judges, coaches, referees, such as at the or cluedo stadium. Studying is tiring and less and less necessary, just inquire about social media or on the first lines generated by IA on the phone. But if you do not know, you have to trust the knowledge of others, that is, of friends and colleagues in turn lined up, or of the various information media, in turn lined up, for editorial interests or for ideological positioning.
Does it make sense then to judge that the truth is on one side only? It is not a question of being warm or cold, but warm, and therefore worthy of being vomited, as the apocalypse warns. These are not of interest, passion, sharing: those remain and burn, without being perched in the fortress of the best, pure, morally and intellectually worthy.
Are we really sure that being with the Russians or with Ukrainians, with the Palestinians or the Israelis, (worse, “The Jews!”), With friends or enemies of Charles Kirk help our conscience and serve to the common good? To indignation costs little, just a post to put the soul in place, protest where you don’t risk anything, raise your voice by putting the opponent to the sedan to affirm their beliefs, in the squares and on TV, exacerbating the climate. With the suspicion that so much free, not free, is so free, other causes serve.
Even in politics, it can be scored for what is believed right, whether it proposes it one or the other part, even changing your mind, over time, without being labeled.
There is only one truth and it is the name of Christ: In his name they understand, they love each other, people welcome, judge the facts, striving to see their complexity. For those who have never met Jesus, the wealth of many witnesses of good will remain who exercised the virtues of the prudence and of the temperancemore and more neglected.