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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. |
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− | “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. |
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− | “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] . . . |
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| [[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]] | | [[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]] |