Tag Archive for 'Friends'

A few days ago, Steve Smith posted a comment, “Wrong-headed Friends,” in which he described a couple of his friendships maintained across today’s cultural divide. I hope that this blog will help to generate the sorts of friendships that Steve Smith describes. But I fear that the intensity of moral commitments around at least two current cultural issues make such friendships very difficult. Those on the right find it difficult to have close friendships with those who support the right to kill unborn human beings. Those on the left find it difficult to have friendships with those who want to reserve marriage for opposite sex couples. This difficulty may be because concern for the goodness of the friend is a central component of friendship (certainly the classic notion of friendship).