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Originally Posted by Symph2001  Playing Devils Advocate therein lies a quandary.....
If you had to make the choice give your child up to foster care cause you couldn't keep the heat on and the State was getting ready to take them or sell a puppy on the side of the road which would you do? Those are your only 2 choices. Neither is not an option. Pulling another scenario out of the air is not an option. Which would you choose? Child or puppy?
Remindes me of some of the great questions posed in the Book of Questions. |
That's not devils advocate, and there are ALWAYS other solutions. You didn't say "give up your child or murder a family member with money. Or starve your child or rob a bank.
You always have a choice, to do what is right, to do what is hard, or to do what is easy....this woman did not just start selling dogs when things got tough (or where did she have the money to buy 2 breeding dogs AND according to the OP of this, she has sold dogs before).
Its no different from me saying "well, I am hungry, times are hard, I will embezzle money from my company, because they have lots". Its wrong, there are always solutions: public assistance, charity organizations, food pantry's. She got a job at McDonalds....why doesn't he? How about instead of buying a lot of presents for the grand kids, they make coupon books saying "board game night at grandma's" and "sledding afternoon" or "movie night" with DVD's from the library?
All they are doing, is perpetuating the idea that christmas is about STUFF, and that its ok to do anything, to get it.