Social Conundrums, Part IV
By Renee Hughes Gershom's mind churned as he flew. Anne could be so stubborn and when she made up her mind there was no changing it. Her idea to give all their hard work over to a mediator was a mistake. He had striven to the best of his ability to prove his case to the committee that the less involved the Little Dragon race was in a species evolution the better. Any amount of interference such as a misguided, albeit well-intended social code took away the species right to choose their own fate. He couldn't help putting himself in the footsteps of the new aliens and knew with his whole heart he would resent the interference. The Little Dragons were not gods. Creating a social code sounded like something dredged up from an ancient religion. In his youth he attended religious ceremonies in all different types of faiths. Tolerance of everyone's faith is universal as long as it never interfered with free choice. Many still found comfort in beliefs nurtured and sustained by t