Jonathan Kraut, regarding your column (Feb. 24), please read the Constitution of the United States of America, namely the first sentence of the Preamble.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union …” They purposefully made it to read, “a ‘more’ perfect union.” I’ve often asked myself why they inserted the word “more.” I wondered at the logic, the reasoning, behind that specific choice of words. I bore in mind that the framers, our Founding Fathers, seldom wrote anything without careful debate and deliberation.
When I finally figured it out, I realized “perfection” is a desired destination, a mythical goal, something to strive for, and that however hard we try we will never actually reach it, because we are human, and, as those who have faith and believe already know, because we are “imperfect,” and most everything we do, whether civic or religious, demonstrates that imperfection in each and every one of us — myself included.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita
