Letters to the editor.

• Author: Larson, D.
• Position: Letter to the editor

Mr. Kreyche has, whether knowingly or not, probed into a much larger issue [in his May 2007 Parting Thoughts column, "Do Ethics Promise Too Much? "]. The bigger issue here is this: who is in control? This article points out that as long as humanity believes it is in control, that it is the one who makes the rules; then the world will be in utter chaos. When humanity sets out to rule itself nothing but moral fluidity and ethical relativity, will exist. Whether it is something as simple as office behavior or something far more complex like euthanasia, humanity simply does not have the power to reach a consensus on what is wrong and what is right. This leads to the question: is there, then, right and wrong? When humanity sees its proper place, as subjects to a Lord rather than lords themselves, then ethical relativity ceases to exist. As subjects, we know that stealing office supplies is wrong, that taking life is wrong, that disposing of embryos is wrong, because He has provided black and white rules by which we are to live. As long as humanity tries to rule itself, ethics will continue to be nothing more than a vague theory.

D. Larson

Manchester, Mo.

A very big thank you for such wonderful coverage--in 2 issues! [May 2007, "Resurrecting Gustave Dore" by Robert Rosenblum; March 2007, "Gustave Dore and L'Annee Terrible et La Semaine Sanglante" by Lisa Small] As always, I love the visual richness of USA TODAY Magazine. 1 also stumbled onto the article just before Dore about dropping the bomb in Japan. Fascinating. I am half-Japanese," my grandparents were in Hawaii and my father was 15 when Pearl Harbor...