Water Way
We all know this.
Water gathers and finds its way as if by will, with ineluctable force or with infinite patience.
It weaves and courses, drawn downward by gravity, or it seeps, emerges through the smallest capillary or crease.
It may even create a way by force, if necessary.
If it is prevented from making its way dowward, it may just disappear as it is taken up, leaving no trace but perhaps ridding itself of impurities in the process of making good its escape.
The kindest, gentlest way is the best way for things to be accomplished between people, and if everyone is reasonably happy, that is highest goal for any given social situation.
Pain is immediate.
Regret is insidious.
There are moments of suffering in the lives of self-reliant creatures, but they are generally brief, and if there is irreparable damage, those moments of suffering generally result in death, which relieves suffering without undue delay.
Even the suffering in the moment is often minimized for these self-reliant creatures.
If the creatures are not self-reliant, that is, if they rely on humans for quarter, humans recognize a duty to relieve their keep of unecessary suffering through humane means.
Human beings are not self-reliant.
They rely on one another.
In the social reality of human life, painful moments are long and drawn out by acts of complicity, purposeful interventions or by "heroic means."
Human pain is seen as necessary, and suffering often works to the advantage of those who have more power and advantage.
Humans often profit from the pain and suffering of those at a disadvantage.
Interventions to lessen the suffering of human beings is often treated as a crime by those in power because it lessens their advantage or profit, and there is either great suspicion or an unassailable assumption that a human being's death is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
Death is often considered the highest penalty, the greatest punishment.
Where is the humanity?
Why should humans have misappropriated the term humane to refer to acts of kindness and mercy?
Men may cry "peace!" when there is no peace, and they may wish "peace on Earth and good will to all men," who are endowed with inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The use of the term "men" which excludes women is not accidental and there has always been heated debate about what constitutes a "man."
It has never actually been treated as true or mandated by law that men may pursue happiness, only money and property which yields advantage over other women and men.
No matter how humanity tries to prevent it, even if those ways may masquerade as humane or benign, it is only the selfish materialistic primate at work, and like water I will find my way.
We all know this.
iconimago
Water gathers and finds its way as if by will, with ineluctable force or with infinite patience.
It weaves and courses, drawn downward by gravity, or it seeps, emerges through the smallest capillary or crease.
It may even create a way by force, if necessary.
If it is prevented from making its way dowward, it may just disappear as it is taken up, leaving no trace but perhaps ridding itself of impurities in the process of making good its escape.
The kindest, gentlest way is the best way for things to be accomplished between people, and if everyone is reasonably happy, that is highest goal for any given social situation.
Pain is immediate.
Regret is insidious.
There are moments of suffering in the lives of self-reliant creatures, but they are generally brief, and if there is irreparable damage, those moments of suffering generally result in death, which relieves suffering without undue delay.
Even the suffering in the moment is often minimized for these self-reliant creatures.
If the creatures are not self-reliant, that is, if they rely on humans for quarter, humans recognize a duty to relieve their keep of unecessary suffering through humane means.
Human beings are not self-reliant.
They rely on one another.
In the social reality of human life, painful moments are long and drawn out by acts of complicity, purposeful interventions or by "heroic means."
Human pain is seen as necessary, and suffering often works to the advantage of those who have more power and advantage.
Humans often profit from the pain and suffering of those at a disadvantage.
Interventions to lessen the suffering of human beings is often treated as a crime by those in power because it lessens their advantage or profit, and there is either great suspicion or an unassailable assumption that a human being's death is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
Death is often considered the highest penalty, the greatest punishment.
Where is the humanity?
Why should humans have misappropriated the term humane to refer to acts of kindness and mercy?
Men may cry "peace!" when there is no peace, and they may wish "peace on Earth and good will to all men," who are endowed with inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The use of the term "men" which excludes women is not accidental and there has always been heated debate about what constitutes a "man."
It has never actually been treated as true or mandated by law that men may pursue happiness, only money and property which yields advantage over other women and men.
No matter how humanity tries to prevent it, even if those ways may masquerade as humane or benign, it is only the selfish materialistic primate at work, and like water I will find my way.
We all know this.
iconimago
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