A quotation from Thoreau

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are not good? Is there any necessity for a man’s being a tool to perform a deed of which his better nature disapproves? Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1859-10-30), “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” Concord, Massachusetts

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Le grand saut est fait ! Ethernité rejoint Mastodon, ravie de ce nouvel espace d'échanges.

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public: a man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-07-20), The Spectator, No. 122

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Thank you for taking the time to send a message of solidarity to Chow Hang-tung.
She is a #prisoner of #conscience who has been unjustly imprisoned for more than 4 years.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/human-rights-hong-kong
#humanrights

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

   The total moral collapse of respectable society during the Hitler regime may teach us that under such circumstances those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight, and that all that then will be left is the mere habit of holding fast to something.
   Much more reliable will be the doubters and skeptics, not because skepticism is good or doubting wholesome, but because they are used to examine things and to make up their own minds.
   Best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

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Of course…

Consciousness — that mysterious inner experience of being alive — might not be so rare in the animal kingdom after all.

A quotation from Moliere

CLÉANTE:These are the arguments of all your kind:
   Since they can’t see, they think that no one ought;
   Whoever does, is tainted with free thought;
   Whoever balks at pious affectation
   Fails to hold piety in veneration.
   Come now, for all your talk, I’m not afraid;
   Heaven sees my heart, and I know what I’ve said.
 
[Voilà de vos pareils le discours ordinaire:
Ils veulent que chacun soit aveugle comme eux;
C’est être libertin que d’avoir de bons yeux;
Et qui n’adore pas de vaines simagrées
N’a ni respect ni foi pour les choses sacrées.
Allez, tous vos discours ne me font point de peur;
Je sais comme je parle, et le ciel voit mon cœur.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Frame (1967), 1.5]

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Planting Rights and Feeding Fr...

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Notre discussion avec Florian Moullard sur la #conscience animale, guidée par le journaliste Fabien Trécourt, est désormais disponible en podcast!
On y a parlé du jeu des poulpes, des collaborations entre loups et corbeaux et - évidemment - de ce que ça fait d'être une chauve-souris !
#animalcognition #animal #animalculture #behaviour #philbio #podcast

https://smartlink.ausha.co/soirees-philosophie-sciences-et-societe-a-la-sorbonne/dans-la-tete-des-animaux

A defeat Keir Starmer cannot afford

Retreat on welfare cuts would be an irrecoverable blow to the UK prime minister’s authority

It is just a pity he didn’t consider the consequences then isn’t it - too much time hanging out with #McSweeny and #McFadden and not enough time with his #conscience, common sense, the party or his back benchers.

http://archive.today/2025.06.26-113001/https://www.ft.com/content/fc6a7f7b-683f-4900-aca1-e2e3cda0a312

Pourquoi rien ne change ? Rendre visible la domination pour sortir de l’impasse systémique

Pourquoi, malgré la #conscience de l’#effondrement global, le #système ne bascule-t-il pas ? Parce que la #domination d’une #minorité persiste, masquée par l’#histoire longue. Cartographier cette domination, c’est ouvrir la voie à la #rupture. #EffondrementGlobal #écologie #justice #CritiqueSociale #systémique #Benjamin Pourquoi rien ne change ? Rendre visible la domination pour…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/pourquoi-rien-ne-change-rendre-visible-la-domination-pour-sortir-de-limpasse-systemique/

If I'm remembering it correctly:

Picard is denied permission to go to Wolf 359, he goes anyway, citing that " There comes a time when a man of good conscience can not blindly obey orders"

There are approximately 1.3 million Americans on active duty (source: Wikipedia). I hope that of those 1⅓ million, there are sufficient of good conscience, and they will soon understand the need to hold their senior officers to account.

“#Criminalization of #Conscience: On Palestine and British ‘Cultural McCarthyism’”

by Asim Qureshi in The Palestine Chronicle

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour @BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4

“In the United Kingdom today, the line between political expression and criminal offence has never been more perilously thin – as witnessed through the lens of #Palestine #solidarity – the extent of Britain’s encroachment upon basic freedoms becomes painfully clear“

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/criminalization-of-conscience-on-palestine-and-british-cultural-mccarthyism/

Watch some short documentaries:

https://www.laverabestia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/120-Days-inside-one-of-Germanys-largest-pig-farms.mp4
https://www.laverabestia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Live-Exports_-Beyond-Borders-Beyond-Imagination.mp4
https://www.laverabestia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Animal-Cruelty-and-Mutilations-Found-on-Pig-Farm-in-Mexico.mp4

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L’alliance État-marché-technique : sortir du fatalisme historique

Nous devrions parler sans relâche de l’alliance historique entre #État, #capitalisme et #technique. Tant que cette #mégamachine n’est pas interrogée à la racine, aucune prise de #conscience ni #transformation profonde n’est possible. #CritiqueSociale #DémocratieRadicale #histoire #philosophie #PhilosophiePolitique #politique #écologie M'bor Faye - Untitled (The palaver tree) Ce dont il faudrait débattre…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/lalliance-etat-marche-technique-sortir-du-fatalisme-historique/