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“Whilst I have Prince [[Machiventa]]’s approval to broach this subject, I find you reticent to open your mouth, but I thank you for finally taking this lesson to [[heart]].  I want to speak with you about the loss of [[innocence]], a [[gradual]] diminishing of virtuousness -- a creeping approval, [[acceptance]], an over-looking of acts and proposals that are not right.  I’m talking of just yesterday, the nineteen-fifties, a time of [[honesty]], of unlocked doors, return of borrowed goods, acknowledgement of the [[presence]], the worth, and the needs of even a [[stranger]] in the streets.

“Whilst I have Prince [[Machiventa]]’s approval to broach this subject, I find you reticent to open your mouth, but I thank you for finally taking this lesson to [[heart]].  I want to speak with you about the loss of [[innocence]], a [[gradual]] diminishing of virtuousness -- a creeping approval, [[acceptance]], an over-looking of acts and proposals that are not right.  I’m talking of just yesterday, the nineteen-fifties, a time of [[honesty]], of unlocked doors, return of borrowed goods, acknowledgement of the [[presence]], the worth, and the needs of even a [[stranger]] in the streets.

   

   

“In many ways you have [[regressed]] rather than [[progressed]] since those years, and be not [[surprised]] if from time to time you find me throwing a stone, and letting it skip towards my target – the subject of much [[grief]] on the part of your [[Planetary Prince]] and all his workers – and here I’m aiming at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade trade in human organs].  Much as we [[applaud]] those who in the event of loss of life through [[accident]] or illness have bequeathed their organs to another, at times to a number of others, we are most concerned when organs are taken without approval.

“In many ways you have [[regressed]] rather than [[progressed]] since those years, and be not [[surprised]] if from time to time you find me throwing a stone, and letting it skip towards my target – the subject of much [[grief]] on the part of your [[Planetary Prince]] and all his workers – and here I’m aiming at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade trade in human organs].  Much as we [[applaud]] those who in the event of loss of life through [[accident]] or illness have bequeathed their organs to another, at times to a number of others, we are most concerned when organs are taken without approval.

   

   

“Except for a few [[individuals]] ‘mentally estranged from accepted [[mores]]’ you are no longer seen as practicing [[cannibalism]], and at least in the [[collective]] sense do you abhor this practice.  Then, do you not see that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#The_Red_Market harvesting of healthy organs from one who does not want to part with these organs], and may even die during or after such extraction, is akin to [[cannibalism]]?  Indeed the very same?  You may rightly presume cannibalism was once practiced so one could live while another died, likewise with the forced harvesting of organs.

“Except for a few [[individuals]] ‘mentally estranged from accepted [[mores]]’ you are no longer seen as practicing [[cannibalism]], and at least in the [[collective]] sense do you abhor this practice.  Then, do you not see that the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#The_Red_Market harvesting of healthy organs from one who does not want to part with these organs], and may even die during or after such extraction, is akin to [[cannibalism]]?  Indeed the very same?  You may rightly presume cannibalism was once practiced so one could live while another died, likewise with the forced harvesting of organs.

===Closing===

===Closing===

“Over time, most unacceptable [[behavior]] can creep into your [[routine]], to become an unquestioned [[crime]] in a [[civilization]] that is on a downward slide, and is losing its [[innocence]].  Where are those whose voices should be heard?  Consider.  This is one of the stones I throw.  I am ABC-22.”

“Over time, most unacceptable [[behavior]] can creep into your [[routine]], to become an unquestioned [[crime]] in a [[civilization]] that is on a downward slide, and is losing its [[innocence]].  Where are those whose voices should be heard?  Consider.  This is one of the stones I throw.  I am ABC-22.”

===Note===

===Note===

1965, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_I_Throw Levon and the Hawks – The Stones I throw will free all men] . . .

1965, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_I_Throw Levon and the Hawks – The Stones I throw will free all men] . . .

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]