moral dilemma

Montgomery Clift

Do you know I was thinking, on this day that the wonderful George Martin died, that there are other things bigger than the law and religion and that's just being good, using moral judgement, be your own man or woman and follow your own rules.

There is an item in the news at the moment about a certain cell phone in America that the FBI would like the mighty Apple Corporation to open to see if there are any clues on there to see if the people that terrorised San Bernardino had contacted others and conspired with others; Apple said it was against their rules of confidentiality to reveal how to unlock the phone.

Now what do I think about that?

I don't really want the FBI coming to me and looking at my call records even though I have nothing to hide. But why did this go public in any case?

Why didn't the FBI and Apple conspire together in one of the many conspiracies they are reputed to be doing all the time? From planning the attack on 9-11 to Hurricane Katrina!

There was a very good movie called I Confess which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starred everybody's favourite actor Montgomery Clift; Monty (above) played a priest and a man confessed to a murder during confession but because he was a priest he (the priest) had to follow his moral code of confidentiality and keep it to himself.

It's a moral dilemma and that kind of dilemma should be restricted to fiction.

Another thing – and this will come together, I hope – Jimmy Savile was a very religious man. He was so religious that he thought if he confessed his terrible sins he would go to heaven in spite of them.

But think of it if Jimmy Savile's priest knew about the terrible things he did with children of both sexes wouldn't it be his duty (the priest's) to put a stop to it by letting someone know – like the cops. That's a moral dilemma and I hate to even think about how many children he rapes could have been saved with a word from Savile's priest.

It's pronounced Savell, by the way, for my American friends who have probably never heard of the worm.

It doesn't matter whether you believe in God or not those children could have been spared the knowledge of that vile man's body.

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