When You Think About It: A Matter of Conscience

Words and photo by F LoBuono

I'm only his father, not his conscience.
                                     Gary Cooper in "Friendly Persuasion". (1956)

Cooper plays the patriarch of a pacifist, Quaker family whose son makes the extremely difficult moral decision to fight in the Civil War. When the boy's mother protests to Cooper to stop their son, that is his reply.

Think about it, friends. You can love someone very much but you can't LIVE for them - even your children. We can only hope to teach them well. EVERYONE must find their individual path based on their own set of morals, principles, and scruples.

THIS is true freedom.