Something We Can't be Subjective Aboot

In "the Poison of Subjectivism", Lewis talks about and expands on the dangers of installing reason as the impostors for the Laws of Nature and morality. I agree with him. As I observe how much of our values, tendencies, and laws, all over the world are based on Laws of Nature such as courage and selflessness, an attempt to dethrone and completely separate ourselves from the Laws of Nature would not only be extremely difficult, but extremely foolish. Lewis gives a great example of the folly when he compares improving the Laws of Nature and attempting to replace them:

"You like your vegetables moderately fresh; why not grow your own and have them perfectly fresh? and a man who says "Throw away that loaf and try eating bricks and centipedes instead."

We should never attempt to step away from God's standards of morality because without these guidelines we would certainly deteriorate as a species.

Which draws me to my next point, in dicussions today we briefly touched on the subject of whether or not abortion should be made legal. I heard from one of my classmates that in most cases abortion should not be legal, however exceptions could be made if for example the child would be born into a very difficult situation of poverty, orphanhood, or handicap. I disagreed immediately with this idea for two reasons. The first reason was because at the heart of the issue, every human being is created in the image of God and that in itself places an instrically divine value on every single human being, no matter what no circumstances may put a life at risk by the choice of another human. The gift of free will from God is an unalienable right that no human being should be able to take from another. The second reason is that to take the life of a child due to keeping the child from unfavorable circumstances is to steal God's opportunity to be God in someone else's life. He is our Savior and to abort a child is to say we don't trust God enough to take care and redeem that child's life.

The danger of this type of thinking, of looking at the validity of each situation for abortion, is exactly what C.S Lewis warns us not to engage in, Subjectivism. We cannot be the judges of any situation that steals the gift of life from any individual. We do not even hold the rightful claim to our own lives for suicide is a sin. How much less can we commit someone else's suicide for them?

Human beings cannot be the judges of right and wrong, ethics, morals and principles for we will get it wrong. We do not have the capacity to create a true morality. If our morals change according to each situation, say in the case of abortion and we agree that each situation must be evaluated in order to abort, then who's to say that the Naziz were absolutely in the wrong? If our morals are so easily changed, we put into doubt every evil action that has ever been committed. Let's just keep to the Bible, shall we?