Too long you have emulated the
demeanour of a human being, and far too proficiently have you evaded capture
and exposure, for that attention that in the human being is assigned to others
has been entirely invested in the preservation of your paltry self.
The measure of a nation’s
humanity is in how it treats its children. They are innocent and powerless;
they must only be subject to those imperatives that TRULY benefit them foremost
and their society only secondarily, and as adults we have no excuse to delude
ourselves in this respect so long as we imagine ourselves in whatever position
we put the child.
One wonders how children have
suffered for so long in so many perversions of society, but when one has read
the accounts of their oppressors and remembers the hypocritical disdain with
which contemporary oppressors dismissed the children, contemptuously, one
understands that both oppressors are the same in form and function, and at the
end of the long tunnel of shock there is the light of absolute power over this.
That solitary drive, to bring the oppression to an end, alone can truly
motivate the free man in his enterprises and to verify his satisfaction.
If I have been as a child, I
have retained that innocence which is intrinsic to people and is thereby the
basis for our universal human rights and common life. If what I have professed
would benefit me, I ought to rejoice that I have been consistent, and I must admit
it was inevitable that over enough time justice would favour me, though the unjust
continued to rob me of this benefit. So long as I sought what was owed to me by
righteous channels, I have had the obligation to pursue it, whereas they had no
such right whatsoever. Accusing me of self-interest is a confession to guilt in
such a conflict, for only the guilty person would have robbed me of this, and
if I must hold him to my own conception of justice in order that I might
demonstrate this fact, I can rest assured that no truly mature person would
question me, for up until that point my methods have striven only towards the
salvation of the disenfranchised, and now I have so self-identified with those
I sought to save that I too must accept salvation. There is absolutely no
maturity that does not protect innocence. At no age are the evils of those who
abuse the innocent considered permissible to the sane mind, and far less can
they be required.
Dm.A.A.
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