We are told these days that we must love our children unconditionally and that that means supporting their life choices no matter what. So my question is...
If they decide to become bank robbers do I have to drive the getaway car?
The thing is, loving unconditionally (at least how it's typically meant) fails to ask what love might actually be and what it might in fact demand.
I like how Bishop Robert Barron puts it: love means wanting the good for the other person. Not necessarily what you think is good or what they think is good. You want the good for them. You want what's objectively good and try to help them see and achieve that.
If you don't mean that when you say to love others, you're simply mouthing a platitude. At that point you might as well be the lookout and drive the getaway car, and never mind that that isn't truly love.
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No, Support them in all the good they do.
Agreed.
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