Times When Turning The Other Cheek Is Best (Or When Not To Get Into An Argument)
Rene Descartes, the French philosopher, once stated that “Cogito, ergo sum”. For those who missed their philosophy or Latin classes for one reason or another, it means “I think, therefore I am”. Without going into the nitty-gritty details, you can extend this to mean “I think, therefore I can argue”. (Especially when you have had one too many from the cigar flask.)
Well, you are welcome to engage in arguments all you want. It is, after all, a free country where free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution. But free speech or no free speech, there are arguments that simply cannot be won fairly and squarely.
Why? Because these arguments simply have no end, no solution, no clear answers in sight yet.
Evolution vs. Creation
About the only thing that proponents of these beginning-of-life theories agree on is that man has higher faculties than any other known creature on the face of the Earth. Beyond that, everything else is up for contention.
And what a contentious issue it is! Scientists and theologists have been at each other’s throats for centuries, which when the fact that there are as many creationist theories and evolution’s missing links in the world as there are hair on the human head, only makes your hair stand on end all the more!
Euthanasia vs. Right to Life
Now, this is one argument that you should never ever bet on, not one single dollar from any of your leather wallets, ever. You will only be bursting an artery from vigorously making your point on either side and yet the other side will come up with a counterargument, which in turn you will concoct yet another counterargument.
And so it goes, ad infinitum. Well, at least until that burst artery will finally be the death of you.
Abortion vs. Pro-Life
The problem with this argument starts with determining at which point life starts. For the church, it is at the moment of conception. For the state, it starts at birth. For the rest of the skeptical world, life begins at 40.
Seriously, before you start planning those cool groomsmen gifts for your whirlwind wedding, how about planning first whether you want children, when you want it, and how many do you want? At the very least, you will not be faced with this dilemma should you belatedly realize that you don’t need children in your life and in your marriage. Trust me, there are individuals who forget that marriage was humanity’s primary method of perpetuating the species and providing societal stability, which essentially meant children, lots of them.
Chicken or the Egg
This is the most fun argument that cannot be won! It’s like jokes about why the chicken crossed the road, which men find outrageously funny and which flummoxes women. Nobody on either side wins the argument simply because sooner or later, it will boil down to the argument about evolution versus creation. And the cycle begins again!
When you come to think about it, these are indeed the times when turning the other cheek and not getting into an argument is best. Unless, of course, your idea of a fun existence is eggs thrown at your ape man’s butt! In which case, you are quite welcome to it.
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