I am a skeptic, but not a cynic. I am a dissenter but not a pessimist. I am a pragmatist – hard-headed but not hard-hearted. I believe in logic but I delight in love.
I believe all lives are of equal value and all deaths are equally sobering. I do not believe in special treatment for women or children or the elderly. I believe in kindness for everyone. The rich, fat-cat CEO who can’t find peace in his heart is no less worthy of love than the starving street urchin. The woman sold into sexual slavery is as tragic a figure as the man emasculated by a bitter wife in front of his sons. The cop slain in the line of duty, the wounded soldier, the cancer survivor (or victim), are no more noble than the gas station attendant held up at gunpoint in the night, the immigrant with a university degree working at a convenience store, or the old lady with chronic arthritis.
Society makes distinctions, to our own detriment.
Love is only unconditional.
Madcap Ramblings, Rants and Reflections 