January 23

Impartiality lets you off the hook. Not believing one thing or the other makes inaction acceptable. In myself, I call this cowardly behavior. If I refuse to make up my mind on a subject and thus am inactive, and allow potentially harmful things to happen as a result, I am guilty by omission. It is a refusal to take responsibility for the lives of anyone but yourself. Which is selfish. To a point, tolerance is another word for impartiality. As a side note, in a meeting held this past week, Canada MP David Sweet confirmed that in an effort to balance the budget Canada is cutting its funding to the Millennium Development Goals.