The
other day I was having a conversation with a couple of young girls and my older
son in which I was saying to those girls that my younger son was a big boy. My
son with me insisted he wasn’t that big.
I
said, “Size is relative.”
For
my son, who is only an inch or so shorter than his younger brother, his brother
isn’t that big. However to a couple of six year olds, a boy who is well over
five and half feet tall and close to 200 pounds is pretty big.
I
told my son when I was younger, like those girls, my dad would get huge
Christmas trees and put them up in the living room at Grandma’s house each
year. They were really tall. When I got older however the trees got shorter. Or
so it seemed.
Then
one day dad told me that he always got trees about six foot tall.
The
trees weren’t smaller. I was bigger. Size is relative.
Now
take this a step further. Many people today say everything is relative, meaning
what is right and what is wrong can only be defined by the individual and their
circumstances.
I
watched a recent CSI: Cyber episode in which a man and his father-in-law took
upon themselves the task of finding a kidney for the man’s wife by kidnapping
people to harvest a kidney from them. (It should be noted the father-in-law was
a surgeon.)
While
the man was apologizing for kidnapping these people, however, the father-in-law
saw nothing wrong with his actions. He had no intend to kill anyone, he simply
wanted to save his daughters life.
The
fact that without written consent he not only perform surgery, but took an
organ from someone to save his daughter’s life never entered his mind, even
though he would have lost his license for attempting such a thing had he still
been a practicing surgeon. He felt he didn’t do anything horrible, because he
didn’t plan on killing anyone.
Not
that it mattered. Laws are absolute, not relative. They kidnapped, and one
person died because of it. They were charged with three kidnappings and one
murder.
But
in this day and age far too many people think everything is relative. They
think they can define morality or what’s right and wrong by their own code.
Just
for a moment imagine the chaos that would exist if every human being could
actually affect the definition of what was moral for themselves. Imagine a
society where everyone defined their own laws.
How
could you prosecute someone for killing if by their definition of murder they
hadn’t killed anyone? How could you get them for theft if by their definition of
stealing they’d just “borrowed” it? How could you get them for rape if by their
definition all they did was enjoy some sex? How can you get someone for lying if
by their definition they weren’t misleading the truth? How is it cheating if the
person doing it doesn’t define it as such?
Do
you see how that is chaos?
When
people define their own morality they start justifying lying, stealing,
cheating even killing other human beings.
So
as I talked to my son and told him size is relative. I thought of all the
things that people today like to say are relative, like morality, which really
aren’t.
Somethings
are absolute. Like all those Christmas trees over the years have been about six
feet tall. What changed is my height, so I viewed the size of the trees
differently.
Other
things never change, no matter the era or how people view them.
Dystopia
stories are popular right now. Just imagine one with a world where everyone
defines their one moral code, their own laws.
Smile.
Make the day a brighter day.
