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Eye on the world: Choosing right thinking and acting
Are individuals’ future actions bound by external factors rather than our inherent ability to choose right?
In an editorial entitled, “In court sentencing, beware data-driven ‘risk’ tools,” The Christian Science Monitor staff discusses the global trend of courts using social factors to calculate the likelihood of a criminal being dangerous in the future. Staff observes, “… the worst aspect … is that it invalidates the idea of an individual being capable of making the right choices.”
More ideas on this subject:
From Mary Baker Eddy: “The design of Love is to reform the sinner” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 35).
In “ ‘Moral and Spiritual Might Belong to Spirit’ ”: “… every idea in being possesses and expresses the power and ability to do right and be right.”
In “All-embracing Christianity”: Jesus’ “… Christian requirements for his followers were not stated in terms of gender, age, nationality, or economic status but of moral ability to reform and spiritual ability to find heaven deep within thought.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.
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