> I agree, but you've turned your list of nouns into statements which allows
> them to have truth values. Perhaps you thought merely mentioning "love"
> was the same as "humans need love", but it is an important distinction.
A good point. I don't always take the time to be that explicit. I should
know better in this forum. Please forgive.
> Back to the terminally ill child: Telling the child the truth about their
> condition
> doesn't necessarily mean that you have to do it in a cruel or otherwise
> unloving way. I don't see truth and love as incompatible, do you?
Not at all. An uneasy alliance sometimes, but not incompatible.
-Prof. Tim