So two social workers come out of a bar and see a person in the street, beaten, bleeding, maybe unconscious. The first one says "We have to find the person who did this and get them some help."
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
A colleague was raped repeatedly by her brother when she was a child. Later she managed to focus her mother's attention on this old crime. The mother's response was, "I wish you had told me sooner! We could have gotten help for your brother."
I've imagined an allegorical scene where Truth and Grace are a married husband and wife at a gathering. There are two crowds: One crowd only likes and Truth and shuns Grace, the other crowd wants Grace and shuns Truth. And when Truth and Grace try to stay together, the two crowds make every effort to keep them apart.
And the other social worker says "Yes, and we must do everything we can to prevent a backlash against people who engage in assault and battery. Root causes, etc.".
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“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
A colleague was raped repeatedly by her brother when she was a child. Later she managed to focus her mother's attention on this old crime. The mother's response was, "I wish you had told me sooner! We could have gotten help for your brother."
I've imagined an allegorical scene where Truth and Grace are a married husband and wife at a gathering. There are two crowds: One crowd only likes and Truth and shuns Grace, the other crowd wants Grace and shuns Truth. And when Truth and Grace try to stay together, the two crowds make every effort to keep them apart.
And the other social worker says "Yes, and we must do everything we can to prevent a backlash against people who engage in assault and battery. Root causes, etc.".
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