Oh how messy it is to be human.
It was only a couple of months ago that you were looked down upon if you didn’t get the vaccine as “it wasn’t about you, but it was for the safety of others.” Yet, as we find ourselves facing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we have lost all sight of this sentiment.
This is not a post on whether or not abortion is right or wrong as there is no right or wrong and the answer most likely lies somewhere in the middle if we’re truly honest with ourselves.
This is a post about how we only see what we want to see––part of the folly of human nature.
Right now, a lot of people are only seeing that it should be completely up to the woman to decide whether or not to get an abortion, ignoring the fact that if given the opportunity, there is potential to give birth to a human being who could go on to live an amazing life and may choose to want to experience what it means to be human if given the chance. During Covid, I only saw that forcing people to get the vaccine was going against our basic rights as humans, ignoring the fact that the vaccine may have indeed helped save the lives of others.
We do this because at the end of the day, we’re all fighting for what we believe in and as we navigate these murky waters, I think it’s important to always circle back to this.
There is no right or wrong, good or bad.
A person who is pro life believes that they are fighting on the behalf of others.
A person who is pro choice also believes this very same thing, but only through a different lens.
So who’s right?
A person who is pro vaccine believes that they are fighting on the behalf of others.
A person who is pro choice believes this very same thing, but only through a different lens.
So, who’s right?
I don’t know what the answer is here, but we’re probably not nearly as right or as justified as we think we are, in most situations, almost all the time. And this doesn’t mean that we stop fighting for what we believe in. We absolutely fight for what we believe in. This is how progress is made. But if we can do so with some humility, then maybe it will open the space that is needed for us to have rational conversations that can lead towards an agreed upon middle ground because the answer almost never lies fully on one side.