Two interesting quandries
Let us suppose that there is a person who needs to be spending time taking care of themself, and let us posit that this person is in the hospital. Let us also say that this person is very generous, very giving, and very hospitable. Now, if we allow people to visit this person, this person will spend their energy making sure that the people who visit them are kept happy. The longer we allow people to visit, the more energy this person will spend, if they have consistent visitors. To what degree should we allow this to continue? At what point will we make the decision to stop allowing people to press themselves into visiting? Not that we should desire to limit their show of love and concern for the person in the hospital, but rather that the person in the hospital cannot help but expend their energy helping those who come to offer support. Almost makes shorter visiting hours sound reasonable and good.
This next one is less of a quandry, since I think I have the right answer, but still, it was an interesting question when posed to me. Can an atheist be a theologian? Does studying theology presume that one believes? I answer that it is not necessary to be a believer to be a theologian. Rather, in a way, it is easier to be a theologian if one is objective and does not hold one theology to be true and all others to be false. Leaving that part aside, it is possible to believe in Euclidean geometry and still ask the question "What happens in parallel straight lines meet?" The answer we get obviously doesn't exist within the world of Euclidean geometry, but our belief in the truth of Euclidean geometry in no way precludes us from taking the question as a thought experiment and drawing out the conclusions. The same can be said for theology.
This next one is less of a quandry, since I think I have the right answer, but still, it was an interesting question when posed to me. Can an atheist be a theologian? Does studying theology presume that one believes? I answer that it is not necessary to be a believer to be a theologian. Rather, in a way, it is easier to be a theologian if one is objective and does not hold one theology to be true and all others to be false. Leaving that part aside, it is possible to believe in Euclidean geometry and still ask the question "What happens in parallel straight lines meet?" The answer we get obviously doesn't exist within the world of Euclidean geometry, but our belief in the truth of Euclidean geometry in no way precludes us from taking the question as a thought experiment and drawing out the conclusions. The same can be said for theology.