jnce-and-f
found for the real

Eugene
Kaeiiis  __

_. A woman carrying twin
fetuses aborts onc;
another will go to term
with eight; a mother-
~ to-be shoots her own
.. late stage fetus; and a
.  harmful-substance-
‘addicted pregnant
“woman is ordered into
treatment.
These publicized dilemmas
- have been legion — the rights
:of the women versus fetal
rights, the extent and nature
ocietal interference during
pregnancy, drugs, smoking,
drinking, neurishment,
lifestyle — an elusive consen-
sus on values, the relationship
between ethics and law, the
list goes on and on.

Only for people of shallow

intellect’ and those who can’t
abide uncertainty can there
. bea totally satisfactory deci-

sion. There are plentyof these.

people, and their desperation
for a once-and-for-all resolu-
tion drives them to insistence,

Nonetheless, while trivial
¢ ethical questions are easily

“settled,” the really interest-.

ing, and important ones, at
least to thinking peuple, are
unresolvable. On the one
“hand; on. the other... ©

T he Greeks, as usual, had

ia

a word for it; they called it
dichotomy, and dichotomous
thinking, as anxicty-creating
as it is, has increasingly to be
recognized as the only one
that fundamentally nurrors
the basic contradictions in life
and nature,

The key dichotomy for
humans, of course, is that
while we live now, we will
surely die, a realization form-
ing the axis around which we
fashion our existence.

Slowly, we are also begin-
ning to realize that, especially
in this complex, tightly i inter-
woven world, the data we
gather prior to decision-mak-
ing is tentative and incom-

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resolutions rarel

plete, and the outcomes we
envision are probable, not
guaranteed.

Therefore, decisions may
be inadequate and possibly
even counter-productive.

Since in all the cases cited
above there was actual, or
potential, legal intervention,
the question of justice inter-
venes, Justice, we are told, is
blind, There she is, a blade i in
one hand and a scale in the
other, looking for all the
world like a clerk in a
medieval delicatessen store
about to slice off so many
ounces of salami.

But justice wasn’t always

blindfolded, ‘Themis, the god-

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