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WIST Quotations has moved!

A quotation from Horace:

«
Necessity’s impartial law
For every rank is still the same,
One lot for high and low to draw:
The urn hath room for every name.
 
[Aequa lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos;
Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
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WIST · Odes [Carmina], Book 3, # 1, l. 14ff (3/1/14-16) (23 BC) [tr. Gladstone (1894)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsNecessity's impartial law For every rank is still the same, One lot for high and low to draw: The urn hath room for every name.   [Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Necessity in a vast Pot Shuffling the names…
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Kent Pitman

activists sentenced
steep price paid for gift to us
thank them by hearing

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #activism #law #CivilDisobedience #penalties #necessity

@markhburton

People can indeed argue the sentences of years in jail for UK climate protests are too harsh, or can argue that the trials were improper because relevant evidence was excluded, but such discussion misses a valuable opportunity:

Another way to parse this situation and do honor to these peopie is to note that they have knowingly risked a lot and so will pay a lot for us to hear their message. Our job is to treat this expensive gift with the due honor for the price paid, not to whine that it could likely have been obtained at discount, because that cheapens the message.

Climate Change, now for lack of timely action a Climate Emergency, threatens billions every person now alive, and all our would-be progeny. Without meaning to seem callous to people making heroic efforts to wake us up, if it costs whole fractions of their lives to tell us a message so important, that cost--in societal terms--is ALREADY cheap.

By all (moral) rights, a "necessity" defense should apply here, though the paradox then becomes again that if the defense is too surely available, no risk has been taken and so the shock value of someone being willing to deliver the message this way is diminished.

I wrote more on this in my 2009 essay "Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil".

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netsettlement.blogspot.comDisobedience, Civil and Not-So-CivilKent Pitman's blog. Independent, progressive views on Society, Technology, Social Justice and Climate, or sometimes poetry, philosophy, or history.
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