The Moral Issue

Hope

I'm an extraordinary child. That's what everybody says.

I understand things that some of the adults don't. And I understand what morals and ethics are.

Sometimes I think that morals and ethics are too strict.

They shouldn't apply in this case.

No one should be asked to decide the fate of their world. No one should be asked to choose between one poerson and a universe. Especially not six kids.

No one should have to make that big a choice.

So when they were forced to, my friends did the only thing they could. They tried to find a middle ground. They tried to save both.

They did a pretty good job, too. They never killed Aelita. And a Xana attack never destoryed Earth.

So the morals don't apply.

When you have only one real choice, you make that choice.

And who's to say whether it's the righ tchoice or not?

Who's to say that it's either good or bad?

Maybe it's neither.

Humans identify good with white and black with bad.

When you can't make a pure white solution, you can settle for the lightest shade of gray.

And as long as you never hit pitch black, it's never a fully wrong choice.

I'm not qualified to identify whether the choice they made us white or gray or black. Neither are their parents. And neither are they. But I'm qualified enough to say, with absolute certainty, that they never hit pitch black.

Hope of Malo-Swamp, age 7