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  • Essay / Making Choices by Peter Kreeft - 557

    Peter Kreeft says there is a moral jungle in the world. Perversion and sin deceive us every day, and if we lack will and perseverance, we risk falling into an immoral life. Today, topics like abortion, AIDS, rape, drugs and violence torture us. Our soul can be destroyed by greed for money and wealth. The twentieth century was supposed to be peaceful and prosperous, but man invented world war; therefore, genocides and famine occurred. However, there is a being who encourages us to be moral people: it is God. Bad times do not excuse bad choices and bad lives. Moral rules and ideals are not designed for good times but for bad times. For example, a country's laws are particularly necessary in cases of corruption and negligence. Bad times are for good people and good people are for bad times; only in an evil world can we become good. Therefore, times of crisis serve us to get back up and fight against them. Morality is like a map to navigate this world full of temptations. Moral choices are choices between what is actually, objectively right and what is right.....