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A dance out of time
At patheos.com, Marc Barnes’s Bad Catholic blog took issue with “our current dance through the fields of Big Moral Questions”. Whenever an issue is discussed, it is framed in terms of “real life stories”. The New York Times Magazine discussed prostitution via a piece on “The Everyday Faces of Sex Workers”; pro-choice campaigners presented “Remarkably Normal: Abortion Stories”.
This suggests that narratives are superior to general moral principles. “But our narratives are inspired, shaped, and utterly wound up with general principles.” People could change their minds, and their lives, according to those principles.
