How did I get
into this dreadful habit of presuming the worst? Even presuming I don’t know
for certain, and that I must have some doubt remaining, is one of the worst
presumptions I could make. I have a moral obligation to treat others with
generosity. They are innocent until proven guilty, and since I know myself to
be innocent for a fact, then they would be guilty to dismiss me. This begins
with me, because I have authority in human matters. I can’t be held guilty for
how I have affected them, for if they should CHOOSE to sabotage an innocent man
then that would only establish their own guilt. It does not bother me that I
precluded that same guilt, for by the very act of trusting them I made it
possible to clear my own name of misanthropy. And it can only be misanthropy
that would compel them to besmirch MY name when I have placed such faith in
them and in our common human project.
Dm.A.A.
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