Bishop Sheen on Rules, Boundaries and their Place

[jphaddadio]

Why did you edit out the part where Archbishop Sheen proposes when boundaries began to break down in a significant way? I think I know why - the awkward pause at 1:06 is where Sheen mentions the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where America destroyed hundreds of thousands of civilian lives; where all boundaries were effaced. I think it is morally reprehensible what you have done.

[mytruepower2]

It's because as long as there are no rules, what do we want with peace? With nonviolence? If there are no rules, others will bulldoze over you to get what they want, and the only thing that matters is having the power to defend yourself. This is why we obsess over figures who have great power; and especially those who prove their power through violence. We think it's the only way to get things done, and it is, unless you have rules that EVERYONE has to follow; weak and strong alike.

[mytruepower2]

Bishop Sheen was one of the wisest men of the 20th century, and this is one example of why. No society that allows and encourages people to do whatever they please can ever become anything but a constant scramble for more power, because only the powerful are free in a society without rules.

Look what it's done to the weakest among us; murdered by the tens of millions before they can even be born.

Look how we adore images of power now, more than goodness or peace. Why?

[multiplelanguages]

@DRMTHTR2112 Bishop Sheen's point is the following: respect is not incompatible with freedom, i.e. freedom does not license one to be a brat. Ultimately, how we treat others is most telling of who we are. We all enter into relationships which we do not freely choose (with parents, police officers), but we can choose whether to extend respect to these people or not.

And to that end, I would like to thank you for your thoughtful comment.

[DRMTHTR2112]

wow.. sounds like the words of a dictactor to me.. scary stuff.. screw the Catholic church

[williemetoyer23]

@DRMTHTR2112 He is tell you the difference between freedom and license