Free Will

"Choosing not to make a choice is still making a choice."

Whether we like it or not, we have a choice to make.

To do the right thing...
no matter how hard and inconvenient, no matter what wrong we've done before and irregardless of the measurable personal gain or prestige...

or to do the wrong thing...
most times easy, often more popular, usually perceived as acceptable but always cowardly.

There are not as many shades of gray as we may want to believe, if there are any at all.

Morals should not take vacations or be shelved. They ought not be things we put on when they serve us and take off when they don't serve our want. Morals should be what they are: standards of behavior regarding right and wrong. The standard is the standard, it's not wishy washy, it's not subject to change based on time, mood, happenstance, or situation. To those who say that there are no moral absolutes, I'd like to remind them that they just proved the point - saying that there are none, is one. Besides the fact that they are wrong, they cannot prove their statement and actually need to count on the very fact they want to wish away. Right and wrong cannot be based on personally held positions, else the child molesters, liars, murderers, rapists, adulterators and cheaters would all be right, as long as they personally held their actions or beliefs to be right.

Doing nothing, is doing something - far better then to choose to do the right thing.

"Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin." James 4:17