Saturday, November 15, 2003

A Hug is Valuable

Here is a story with a happy ending. Imagine, a business man who gives a piece of property back to an old widow and says that it "was a no-brainer, a moral issue, not a legal one. The property should be returned to her." Then he says. "I got a hug from a little old lady. That was worth more than anyone could imagine." Taking the moral high road over the legal one and taking payment in good feelings. Maybe there is hope for this world after all.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)