*Appeared in the Sun-Times Beacon News on Sunday, November 16, 2009
Indifference may very well be the plague that eventually leads to our demise. The worse words strung together in the English language to form a sentence are: I – don’t – care. Of-course I’m not suggesting that those words aren’t appropriate as the answer to insignificant and meaningless questions like, “Where do you want to go to dinner?” or “What movie do you want to see?” In those situations, it may be better if one person were genuinely indifferent because some would starve before deciding on a restaurant choice if one person had a passionate preference for Chinese food while the other for Italian food. Either that, or they would eat alone.