For a year or so I partnered with a person who had a shop in the downtown. We took shifts selling stuff. On my shift, a parent came in to berate me for selling a knife to his 15 year old. I apologized for my partner's "error", and it blew over, but when I buttonholed her later about it, she was very defensive. Her telling comment was "If I didn't sell it to him, somebody else would have". It seems the same logic can be used to sell drugs, needles, guns and pork rinds. So you don't need a religious context to face a moral quandry.
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Steve,
Thanks. That was brilliant! I agree with the young man.
For a year or so I partnered with a person who had a shop in the downtown. We took shifts selling stuff. On my shift, a parent came in to berate me for selling a knife to his 15 year old. I apologized for my partner's "error", and it blew over, but when I buttonholed her later about it, she was very defensive. Her telling comment was "If I didn't sell it to him, somebody else would have". It seems the same logic can be used to sell drugs, needles, guns and pork rinds.
So you don't need a religious context to face a moral quandry.
(I resolved it by posting a sign.)
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