What's the price of surrendering to evil? When does the price become too dear? Is the sale of a child into sexual slavery, to supposedly pious overlords, a valid sacrifice if it saves the lives and the persons of nine more from being violated? Can our souls survive even such a noble compromise with evil, without being indelibly stained? Who would weigh heavier upon your conscience - the dozens of lives you sold away, or the safety of the children you protected, nine times greater in number?
At first I thought, "this is why I believe there is some evil to which there can be no valid and noble response except to resist its influence with all we have, even at the potential cost of our lives." But if I spent my life resisting that foul 'compromise' then who would stand for these children?
This is, to me, a moral double bind. There is no right answer, only a choice between a morally reprehensible action and a morally reprehensible inaction. In that circumstance, I'm probably as likely to take the action as the inaction.
Like nickelodeon used to ask,
"what would you do?"
Whadd'ya think?
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