Brutkey

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social
Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

@PerryM@newsie.social
"Man!" said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart; not adamant; forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you and such as you decide what men shall live, what men shall die! It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child.

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

@PerryM@newsie.social Or, a more modern interpretation of that quote,

Yes. So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the surplus population is and where it is. It may well be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than MILLIONS like this poor man's child.

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

Heads Up! (Aside: We have a new example of the absolute worst in human life, courtesy of ICE.)

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.
Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

Word:
"Live your life in such a way that America's worst president sends a deranged and disgusting post about you when you die."

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreieel3ghiqc6oy3ya4xkmksabyhcqevew2rsq63wtzuzunfvwrjbni@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3ma22hcubg22c

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

It's dangerous to be a citizen when your government is the terrorist.

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

"Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own." — Pope Francis

(I wish I could forward this to all who work for ICE.)

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” - James Baldwin

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ― John F. Kennedy

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

Dr G
@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social

The time is always right to do what is right.

MLK