I watched the movie "The Messenger" recently and it was Hollywood's version of the story of "Joan of Arc". "The Messenger" is the real life story of a peasant girl from the town of Domremy in France. She claimed that she heard voices from God to halt the English army's ascendancy of France. Eventually she accomplished her goal and was rewarded by being captured and sold to the English by John of Luxembourg. She was burned at the stake for heresy and sorcery (1431). She was 19. 500 hundred years later they canonized her. They changed their minds. Does that mean that they no longer believed that she was a witch? Or does that mean that they truly believe that God spoke to her? Was it politically motivated? The real reason we may never know. After it was all said and done we as a collective changed our mind. The same thing happened with slavery, seat belts, the Indians, Mandela, Nuclear weapons and a host of other problems and issues. When looking back on all the decisions we have made and later reversed, we can see ourselves as had been naive. What issues and problems that we face today that we will change 500 years from now? Issues concerning the environment, illegal aliens, drugs, abortion, the internet, religion have continued to be up for discussion. It may be difficult to imagine the problems and issues we will face in the future. Should your child take their Thermo compound laser dioxides to school? It wasn't a big deal when the Straight Array didn't allow for horizontal diffusion but now everyone and their mother has Systonic Gas issues. I propose a much simpler way of making these decisions. Choose life. If the problem directly affects someone's life or freedom , choose life. Unless that freedom directly affects someone else's life or freedom. The human spirit must be allowed to fly and find it's purpose but not at the cost of another's. Choose freedom. That being what it is , the funniest thing about life is that what do we do in 500 years if we find out that "Joan of Arc" really was a witch?