A better perspective?
Perspective my eye.
Your child falls into the lake. You can't swim. Your "perspective" says you will drown if you jump in and try and save her.
You let her drown?
My friend, there are things much worse than death.
There are, also, things worth dying for.
Indeed. My comment was not meant to defend the position of the Pope as I wholeheartedly disagree with him. My comment was to defend age and experience from being prejudicially labled as cowards. A 60 year old personally has experienced the pain involved in jumping off a chair at age 60 and at age 18 where an 18 year old has only the narrower perspective. It's not cowardice to not want to jump off a chair at age 60, it is intelligence based on experience. The Pope's suggestion that America's defense be turned over to a world of despots and thugs is simply political since he would not be the one to suffer the consequences.
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