On 9/11/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
One can accept something while still thinking that something is completely inappropriate and should be corrected.
To accept something, you have to consider it acceptable. If you think something is completely inappropriate and should be corrected, then you might put up with it, but you wouldn't accept it.
Interesting. I certainly believe you can consider something inappropriate and still accept it. But I guess you're right about the wanting to correct it part. From Wikipedia:
"Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it. Indeed, acceptance is often suggested when a situation is both disliked and unchangeable, or when change may be possible only at great cost or risk."
So I guess I'll modify what I said before to say, no, one shouldn't accept such a situation.