{"id":968,"date":"2018-07-12T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:18:10","slug":"absolutes-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/absolutes-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutes Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Okay people, I’m about to go on a rant. As a feminist I would like to introduce you to the concept that two seemingly opposing ideas can both be true or right or correct. \u00a0Take a breath. I know it’s difficult to give into the idea that you are not absolutely right.<\/p>\n

I want to add to that that one can be passionate about what they believe to be ‘right’ and still hold room for other views. For example: straws. I am part of the ‘let’s do away with them’ club. They multiply. They infest our landfills and more importantly, our oceans. They threaten \u00a0and kill wildlife. Straws are a bane to our society and we should make way for alternatives. So yay, Starbucks!!!
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\nI refuse straws when eating out and if they bring me one already in my drink (because I didn’t anticipate it- learning curve!) I bring it home and cut it into small pieces. I have my own straw. It is a pyrex straw that I clean every day. It is one of the small acts I do to make a small difference, to begin the change. And though I no longer buy canned drinks with plastic rings, but when I did, I made sure to cut them up so they would not choke dolphins or constrain turtles.<\/p>\n

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Everyone should stop using straws! Now! the future of the earth depends on it!<\/p>\n

… Well, except… there are people with disabilities who clearly NEED straws to survive. That is if we consider the ability to eat and drink survival. Which I do. So is there room in my passion and my ‘rightness’ for understanding that my ‘universal’ has exceptions? I really hope so. Because I have friends with disabilities for whom I would also make a stand for their continued ability to use straws.<\/p>\n

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Is this really so hard? Can two things that seem to be contraindicated both be true? If \u00a0you can’t answer ‘yes’ to that question, you may need to look more closely at your belief system. My hunch is that if you don’t \u00a0it will tie you up into bitter knots.<\/p>\n

And here’s my final shot at ‘absolutes’. They keep us from being reasonable, compassionate people. Whether we are talking about legal absolutes, moral absolutes, political absolutes, or theological absolutes.
\nWhat I get when I hear someone propounding an absolute is that I am in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay people, I’m about to go on a rant. As a feminist I would like to introduce you to the concept that two seemingly opposing ideas can both be true or right or correct. \u00a0Take a breath. I know it’s difficult to give into the idea that you are not absolutely right. I want to … Continue reading Absolutes Suck<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13,24,8,23,25,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}